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The Great War (The Battle On The Eastern Front- Calgary Kuker (Russia…

- - - - Russia hadn't industrialized yet.
        
        Russia's supplies were very sparse.
        
        The Allies sent shipments to Russia with supplies.
        
        The shipments were limited by the Germans.
        
        The Germans had control of the Baltic Sea
        
        The Germans had submarines in the North Sea.
        
        The Ottomans still had control of the route from the Mediterranean sea to the Black Sea.
        
        The upper hand that Russia had was the numbers in its army.
        
        Russia rebuilt the army after they had staggering losses.
        
        Germany could not send there full army to the west.
        
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        Militarism- Policy of glorifying military power and being prepared for war
        
        Russia wasn't very prepared when it came to the supplies side of things but they were prepared for the losses that they had in their military.
        
        Alliance- An agreement between two or more parties to advance common goals or interests.
        
        The Western countries already industrialized.
        
        How did Russia’s industrialization affect its war effort?
        
        They didn't have enough supplies to be effective and the lack of supplies made it hard to transport troops.
  - - - Germany counter acted in the town of Tannenburg.
        
        Germany crushed the Russian army
        
        That sent Russia into full retreat.
        
        30,000 Russian soldiers were killed
        
        Hitler led the German army.
        
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        What was psychologically wrong with Hitler?
        
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      - Russia defeated Austria twice in September, 1914.
        
        Russia went deeper into Austria.
        
        In December of 1914 Austria turned the tide.
        
        Austria ended up defeating the Russians.
        
        Austria pushed Russia out of Austria-Hungary.
        
        Invasion- The act of attacking a country or region with an armed force.
      - Why might the war on the Eastern Front have been more mobile than that on the Western Front?
        
        There was more land for a war to move around and start in different places. That also made it easier to blindside your opponent.
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      - Joseph Stalin led the Russians.
        
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- - - - The plan called for attacking and defeating France in the west and then rushing east to fight Russia.
      - 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.
      - Why did Germany attack France first?
        
        They thought it was easier for them to attack France first, because Russia lagged behind of the rest of Europe and that would take longer to supply its front lines.
      - German leaders knew they needed to win a quick victory over France.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
      - Militarism- Policy of glorifying military power and being prepared for war
  - - - In this type of warfare, soldiers fought each other from trenches. And armies traded huge losses of human life for pitifully small land gains.
      - The Western Front had become a “terrain of death.” It stretched nearly 500 miles from the North Sea to the Swiss border
        
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      - Why were land gains so small?
        
        The land gains were so small, because the trenches were right in front of each other. It made it hard to conquer a lot of land.
      - War- a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state.
      - 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.
- - - - On the other side were Great Britain, France, and Russia. Together, they were known as the Allied Powers
    - - afterward, Great Britain declared war on Germany.
        Much of Europe was now locked in battle.
        
        On one side were Germany and Austria-Hungary. They wer known as theCentral Powers because of their location in the heart of Europe.