Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

(The Battle On The Eastern Front (Early fighting at the beginning of the…

- - - - The dead lock region became known as the Western Front
  - - - The plan called for an attack and defeat on France and in the west. The Germans tried to carry out the plan.
        
        The plan didn't work very well because of the railroads lagging in there supplies.
        
        A major
        German victory appeared just days away. Allies
        regrouped and attacked the Germans.
        
        It was the first major clash and battle of the Western front. The Schlieffen plan didn't work for the Germans they didn't fall through
        
        A quick victory in the west no
        longer seemed possible. In the east, Russian forces had already invaded Germany.
        Germany was going to have to fight a long war on two fronts.
        
        Meanwhile, the war on the Western Front settled into a stalemate.
        
        Western Front
        
        Supply & Demand
  - - - This set up Trench Warfare
        
        The space between the trenches was called "No Mans Land." When the officers ordered an attack, their men went over the top of their trenches
        into this bombed-out landscape
        
        A lot of deaths accrued in the Trenches
        
        Military strategists were at a loss because of the new types of machines being created and used.
        
        In February, the Germans launched a massive attack against the French.
        
        the Germans advanced about
        four miles. In the Somme valley, the British gained about five miles.
        
        more than 20,000 British soldiers were killed.
        
        Why did Germany attack France first?
        
        War
        
        During this And armies traded huge losses of human life for
        pitifully small land gains.
        
        Life in the trenches was pure misery. The trenches were filled with rats and tons of mud. It was really hard for the soldiers to do anything.
        
        Trench Warfare
        
        Land gains were small because the Trench Warfare
      - Why were land gains so small?
- - - - Answer: France was apart of the allies and Germany took action before they did.
        
        Nations take sides
        
        Japan and Italy soon joined the Allies, previously known as Triple Entente. Italy switched from the Central Powers accusing Germany of "falsely starting war".
        
        Summer of 1914 soldiers happily marched off the battle not realizing that the statements would take place.
        
        What country had taken over territories that Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire wanted to regain?
        
        Answer: Russia had taken over said territories.
        
        https://my.hrw.com/SocialStudies/ss_2010/student/hs_history_poi/bookpages/library/glossary/glossary.html?loadword=Central%20Powers
        
        https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sir-Edward-Grey-3rd-Baronet
      - War
      - Why did Germany declare war on France?