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The Great War (The Battle on the Eastern Front (The Eastern Front (Battle…

- - - - Why might the war on the Eastern Front have been more mobile than that on the Western Front?
        
        The war might have been more mobile because there was a larger expanse of land that wasn't blocked off by neutral countries, forests, or water.
  - - - Germany counterattacked near the town of Tannenberg
        
        The Germans crushed the Russian army and drove it into full retreat
        
        More than 30,000 Russian soldiers were killed
        
        Was this a futile effort for the Russians considering so many of them died?
      - Russian forces defeated the Austrians twice going deep into their country
        
        Austria started to defeat the Russians
        
        The Russians were pushed out of Austria-Hungary
      - Invasion
  - - - Russia had yet to become industrialized
        
        They were continually short on food, guns, ammunition, clothes, boots, and blankets
        
        Consequence
        
        How did Russia’s industrialization affect its war effort?
        
        Russia's industrialization affected it's war effort by making them weaker than other countries. This is because they had a lack of industrialization making it so that they had a lack of production of goods that they needed in the war.
      - The Allied shipments to Russia were limited by the German control of the Baltic Sea.
      - The Russians only asset was its number of troops.
        
        However, throughout the war they suffered staggering amounts of battlefield losses
        
        Losses in the War
      - The Russian army managed to tie up thousands of German troops for more than three years
        
        Why was this helpful to the Allied cause?
      - Timeline of what was happening in Russia
- - - - Invasion
      - The beginning of the wars
    - - Change
    - - Why did Germany declare war on France?
        
        Germany declares war on France because France is allies with Russia who they also declared war on. They were expecting France to declare war on them so they just declared before France got the chance
  - - - Austria-Hungary
      - Germany
      - Bulgaria
      - Ottoman Empire
        
        What country had taken over territories that Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire wanted to regain?
        
        Russia took over some of there territories which caused them to join the Central Powers to regain there lost territories
      - The defeat of the Central Powers
    - - Great Britain
      - France
      - Russia
      - Japan
      - Italy
        
        Why Italy joined the Allies
    - - Why were people happy about going to war?
- - - - Early on, it appeared that Germany would do just that. By early September, German forces had swept into France and reached the outskirts of Paris. A major German victory appeared just days away.
        
        On September 5, however, the Allies regrouped and attacked the Germans northeast of Paris, in the valley of the Marne River. Every available soldier was hurled into the struggle.
        
        When reinforcements were needed, more than 600 taxicabs rushed soldiers from Paris to the front. After four days of fighting, the German generals gave the order to retreat.
        
        Although it was only the first major clash on the Western Front, the First Battle of the Marne was perhaps the single most important event of the war. The defeat of the Germans left the Schlieffen Plan in ruins.
        
        In the east, Russian forces had already invaded Germany. Germany was going to have to fight a long war on two fronts. Realizing this, the German high command sent thousands of troops from France to aid its forces in the east. Meanwhile, the war on the Western Front settled into a stalemate.
        
        If the Germans knew that they were going to have a two front war, why did they do the Schlieffen Plan?
        
        Consequence
      - Why did Germany attack France first?
        
        The Germans felt they could carry out such a plan because Russia lagged behind the rest of Europe in its railroad system and thus would take longer to supply its front lines.
      - Invasion
      - Schlieffen Plan
  - - - Life in the trenches was pure misery. The men slept in mud, washed in mud, ate mud, and dreamed mud.
        
        The space between the opposing trenches won the grim name “no man’s land.” When the officers ordered an attack, their men went over the top of their trenches into this bombed-out landscape. There, they usually met murderous rounds of machine-gun fire.
        
        Staying put, however, did not ensure one’s safety. Artillery fire brought death right into the trenches. The Western Front had become a “terrain of death.” It stretched nearly 500 miles from the North Sea to the Swiss border.
        
        Military strategists were at a loss. New tools of war, machine guns, poison gas, armored tanks, larger artillery had not delivered the fast-moving war they had expected. All this new technology did was kill greater numbers of people more effectively.
        
        The slaughter reached a peak in 1916. In February, the Germans launched a massive attack against the French near Verdun. Each side lost more than 300,000 men. In July, the British army tried to relieve the pressure on the French. British forces attacked the Germans northwest of Verdun, in the valley of the Somme River.
        
        In the first day of battle alone, more than 20,000 British soldiers were killed. By the time the Battle of the Somme ended in November, each side had suffered more than half a million casualties.
        
        Life in the Trenches
        
        War
        
        Why were land gains so small?
        
        You couldn't gain that much land because if you went over the top of the trenches, a.k.a. no man's land, there is a high chance that you and your men could get killed by machine gun fire.