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Europe Plunges into War (A Bloody Stalemate (War in the trenches (They got…

- - - - Machine guns, poison gas, armored tanks, large artillery - had not delivered the fast moving war
- - - - Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
        
        Russia mobilizes troops to support Serbia
        
        Germany declares war on Russia
        
        Two sides would form
        
        Central Powers
        
        Germany
        
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        Austria-Hungary
        
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        Ottoman Empire
        
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        Bulgaria
        
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        Allies
        
        Great Britain
        
        France
        
        Russia
        
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        Serbia
        
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        Japan
        
        Italy
- - - - Russian forces launched an attack
        
        Austria
        
        Battled the Russians and lost (2 times in September 1914)
        
        Austria later defeated Russia and pushed them out of Austria- Hungary
        
        Germany
        
        At the end of August, Germany counterattacked near Tannenberg
        
        During the four-day battle, Germans crushed the invading Russian army and drove into full retreat
        
        30,000+ Russian soldiers were killed
  - - - Russisa's war effort was close to collapse
        
        Yet to become industrialized
        
        Russian army was short on food, guns, ammunition, clothes, boots, and blankets
      - How did Russia's industrialization affect its war effort?
        
        A. They were unable to efficiently transport supplies aand weapons for the war
    - - Had only one asset- it's numbers
      - They suffered a staggering number of battlefield losses
        
        Kept rebuilding its ranks from the enormous population
        
        Managed to tie up hundreds of thousands of German troops in the East
        
        As the war continued, it spread beyond Europe to Africa, and even Southwest and Southeast Asia
  - - - More mobile war than that in the west
        
        Why might the war on the Eastern Front have been more mobile than that on the Western Front?
        
        A. It allowed more land to move and launch military to the Western front which was a direct border between France and Germany.
    - - Austro- Hungarians
      - Germans