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Europe Plunges Into War (The Battle on the Eastern Front (The Western…

- - - - The Eastern Front might be more of a rough terrain than the Western Front.
    - - both sides were sending thousands, of men to fight on the Eastern Front.
        
        On the battlefield, between the German and Russian Border, Russians and Serbs fought Germans and Austro-Hungarians.
        
        It was more mobile than the war on the Western Front.
  - - - Tannenberg
      - During The-four-day battle, the Germans crushed the invading Russian army and drove into full retreat. More than 3,000 Russian soldiers were killed.
        
        Russia had fared so much better than the Austrians. The Russian forces had defeated them twice in September in the year of 1914.
  - - - Because of this, Russian army was continuously short on food, guns, ammunition, clothes, blankets, and boots.
        
        The Russian's had only one asset to the war... it's numbers.
        
        During the war, Russia's army had a staggering loss. But it continued to rebuild its forces.
        
        For more than three years, the Russian army had somehow managed to tie up hundreds of thousands of German Troops in the east.
    - - Russia was not yet industrialized.
- - - - To Germany, Russia’s mobilization amounted to a declaration of war. On August 1, the German government declared war on Russia.
        
        Russia looked to its ally France for help.
        
        Germany didn't even wait for France to react. Two days after declaring war on Russia, Germany also declared war on France.
        
        Soon afterward, Great Britain declared war on Germany.
        
        Much of Europe was now locked in battle.
        
        Why did Germany declare war on France?
        
        Germany declared war on France because they knew that France was going to ally with Russia.
  - - - One one side were the Central Powers,
        
        Germany, Austria-Hungary
        
        Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire would later join the Central Powers in the hopes of regaining lost territories.
        
        What country had taken over territories that Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire wanted to regain?
        
        Russia
        
        Central Powers
      - On the other side were the Allies
        
        Great Britain, France, and Russia
        
        Japan joined the Allies within weeks. Italy joined later.
        
        Italy had been a member of the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
        
        The Italians joined the Allies after accusing their former partners of unjustly starting the war.
        
        Allies
      - In the late summer of 1914, millions of soldiers marched happily off to battle, convinced that the war would be short.
        
        Only a few people foresaw the horror ahead.
        
        One of them was Britain’s foreign minister, Sir Edward Grey.
        
        Staring out over 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 our lifetime.”
        
        Sir Edward Grey
        
        Conflict
- - - - This plan called for attacking and defeating France in the west then rushing east to fight Russia
        
        Germans thought they could do this because Russia was so technologically behind.
        
        German leaders knew they were going to have to have a quick victory over France
        
        In the beginning it appeared that Germany would do that.
        
        By September German forces had swept France, and had reached to the out skirts of Paris.
        
        When reinforcements were needed, more than 600 taxicabs were rushed from Paris to the fronts of war.
        
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        Why did Germany attack France first?
        
        Germany thought that attacking France would be an easy and quick victory
        
        Consequence
      - What was the Schlieffen Plan?
        
        Schlieffen Plan
  - - - Life in the trenches were pure misery and very unsuitable
        
        The space in between the two trenches was called "no man's land"
        
        Being in there trenches military strategists were at a loss
        
        Rather than machine guns making to war move faster, they it easier to kill a larger number of people
      - Why were the land gains so small?
        
        Because they were set up in trenches and there was little to no movement that would effect land gain.