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Europe Plunges into War (The Battle on the Eastern Front (war on the…

- - - - stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border
        
        Russians and Serbs battled Germans and Austro-Hungarians
        
        Why might the war on the Eastern Front have been more mobile than that on the Western Front?
        
        Because the Russian army couldn't hold them off as well as the other armies could
        
        alliances
  - - - Germany counterattacked near the town of Tannenberg
        
        Germans crushed the invading Russian army and drove it into full retreat
        
        about 30,000 Russian soldiers were killed
        
        Tannenberg
  - - - the Allied supply shipments to Russia was limited by German control of the Baltic Sea
        
        Throughout the war the Russian armies took a-lot of battlefield losses but was able to replace troops easily with its big population
        
        How did Russia’s industrialization affect its war effort?
        
        they couldn't supply its troops with materials to help in the war
- - - - The deadlocked region in northern France is known as the Western Front.
  - - - attacking and defeating France in the west and then rushing east to fight Russia
        
        They thought it would work because Russia's railroad system lagged behind.
        
        Schlieffen Plan
        
        Invasion
      - It looked as if it would work early on.
        
        Allies regrouped and attacked the Germans northeast of Paris
        
        Germans retreated and the Schlieffen Plan was ruined.
        
        Russian forces invade Germany.
        
        West- settled on stalemate
        
        East- sent thousands of troops from France
        
        Conflict
        
        Why did Germany attack France first? A: Germany attacked first because they were in the middle and didn't want their military split into two. Also Russia is behind in industrialization. They are slow to transport.
  - - - Huge losses for very little gain.
        
        Why were land gains so small? A: Land gains were so small because each side used things like trench warfare which gains nothing
      - Slept in mud, ate mud, and dreamed mud
        
        swarmed with rats
        
        No fresh food available.
        
        sleep was a foreign concept
        
        Isolation
      - No-mans land
        
        Machine guns murdered loads of people
        
        Artillery fire = no safety
        
        New technology created mass death
        
        machine guns
        
        Poison Gas
        
        Armored Tanks
        
        larger artillery
        
        Technology WWI
      - Western front = death
        
        500 miles from North Sea to Swiss Border
        
        Western Front
      - 1916-Verdun 600,000+ men lost
        
        In the valley of Somme River 20,000 killed the first day
        
        Each side suffered 500,000+ casualties
        
        Germans advanced 4 miles
        
        British Gained 5 miles
      - Trench Warfare
      - War
- - - - The Triple Entente, included Great Britain, France, and Russia
        
        The Triple Entente
      - The Triple Alliance, included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
        
        The Triple Alliance
    - - The countries of Europe followed through on their pledges to support one another
        
        Europe joined the war
        
        Alliance
      - War
  - - - Russia’s mobilization amounted to a declaration of war and the German government declared war on Russia
        
        Two days after declaring war on Russia, Germany also declared war on France
        
        Great Britain declared war on Germany and much of Europe was now locked in battle
        
        Why did Germany declare war on France?
        
        They were moving ahead with a long-held strategy
  - - - Great Britain, France, and Russia were the Allied Powers. Japan and Italy would soon join after
        
        Italy joined the other side after accusing their former partners of unjustly starting the war
        
        In 1914, the war begun
        
        War
      - What country had taken over territories that Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire wanted to regain?
        
        Russia