Because it disabled the enemy and pre-occupied their medics.
The 2 main ones were mustard and chlorine gas. mustard would make you blind and chlorine was worse it would burn your lungs.
Mustard Gas
The Germans used mustard gas during world war one.
I belive it was the Germans and then later on used by the Allies
It was succesfull for any country that used it anywhere
The Geneva Protocol of 1925 banned the use of gas weapons including mustard types. It was further banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993.
In World War 1, we begin to see the first use of poision gas use. The Germans used chlorine and mustard gas to clear trenches of the Allied forces.
mustard gas was used in world war 1 as weapon.it was introduced by Germans in 1917.
The Germans used the deadly poison Mustard Gas in World War I. The British used something equivalent to this, but not exactly the same.
I believe it was late 1914 to 1915. The Germans used mustard gas alongside chlorine gas. The chlorine gas was extremely poisonous especially if breathed in, and could kill instantly. The Germans actually wiped out all the French soldiers with chlorine gas. And mustard gas was a yellowish- brown coloured gas that when it touched open skin, it would make the skin blister and it would eat away at it. The reason it's called mustard gas is cause it had the smell of grainy mustard.
Germany introduced mustard gas, and they were also the first ones to use it.
Mustard Gas