1915: World War One's Year of Poison Gas, Genocide, and Millions of Refugees

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History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In 1915, the Central Powers and Allies dug in their heels and tried desperately to break the stalemate of the war, still hoping for a short conflict on the scale of a few months. Poison gas was used for the first time. Germans experimented with...

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1:35.4	History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts.
1:38.6	It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here.
1:44.0	Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast where we look at the forgotten, neglected,
1:48.4	strange and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is.
1:53.3	I'm your host, Scott Rank.
2:04.0	Welcome everyone back to our series on key battles in World War One.
2:07.4	In the previous episode we looked at the Battle of Gallipoli.
2:10.7	The Allies believed that they could go up the street of Dardanelles,
2:13.7	quickly knocking the Ottoman Empire out of World War One.
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