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Europe Plunges into War (Battle on the Eastern Front (Russia Struggles…
Europe Plunges into War
The Great War Begins
In response to Austria's declaration of war, Russia began moving its army toward the Russian-Austrian border.
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Nations Take Sides
By mid-August 1914, the battle lines were clearly drawn.
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On the other side were Great Britain, France, and Russia. Together, they were known as the Allied Powers or the Allies.
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In the late summer of 1914, millions of soldiers marched happily off to battle. Only a few people foresaw the tragedy ahead of them.
One of them was Britain's foreign minister, Sir Edward Grey.
Staring out the London at nightfall, Grey said sadly to a friend, "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in out lifetime."
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A Bloody Stalemate
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War In the Trenches
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Life in the trenches was pure misery. “The men slept in mud, washed in mud, ate mud, and dreamed mud,”
No one was safe, even if you stayed in the trenches. The land between you and the opposing people was called no mans land.
The Western Front had become a “terrain of death.” It stretched nearly 500 miles from the North Sea to the Swiss border.
slaughter reached a peak in 1916. Each side lost more than 300,000 men
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