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Europe Plunges Into War (Part 1 (Setting The Stage (Austria-Hungary’s…
Europe Plunges Into War
Part 1
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Nations Take Sides
Germany and Austria-Hungary were known as the Central Powers because of their location in the heart of Europe
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Great Britain, France, and Russia were known as the Allied Powers
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Setting The Stage
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Triple Entente included Great Britain, France, and Russia
Triple Alliance included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
Austria-Hungary’s declaration of war against Serbia set off a chain reaction within the alliance system
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A Bloody Stalemate
In the summer of 1914, it turned to fall and the battles become really long and bloody and turn into a bloody stalemate.
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Early Fighting
At the beginning of the war, Russian forces had launched an attack into both Austria and Germany. At the end of August, Germany counterattacked near the town of Tannenberg.
Russia fared somewhat better against the Austrians.
Russian forces defeated the Austrians twice in September
1914, driving deep into their country. Not until December
of that year did the Austrian army manage to turn the tide.
Austria defeated the Russians and eventually pushed them
out of Austria-Hungary.
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Why might the war on the Eastern Front have been more mobile than that on the Western Front? The Eastern Front was more mobile because it was a greater stretch of land and stretched across the Russian-Germany border.
Russia struggles
By 1916, Russia’s war effort was near
collapse.
As a result, the Russian army was continually short on food, guns, ammunition, clothes, boots, and blankets.
Throughout the war the Russian army suffered a staggering number of battlefield losses. Yet the army continually rebuilt its ranks from the country’s enormous population. For more than three years, the battered Russian army man-
aged to tie up hundreds of thousands of German troops in the east. As a result, Germany could not hurl its full fighting force at the west.
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How did Russia's industrialization affect its war effort? They were unable to efficiently transport supplies and weapons for the war.
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