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- - - - best prepared soldiers
      - lee-enfield rifles
        
        fast and accurate
- - - - Britain: 418 000
      - French: 194 000
      - German: 650 000
  - - - which would bring them cheap and quick victory
        
        it couldn't happen due to the failure of
        
        the Schlieffen Plan
        
        Plan XVII
      - led to a war of fixed entrenchment
    - - Britain 85 000 of an army of 160 000
      - France 850 000 of an army of 1 million
      - Germany 677 000 of an army of 1 500 000
  - - - One million troops attacked a 60-kilometre front.
      - Troops stopped to eat
      - -200,000 US soldiers every month
      - The German advance collapsed and they were pushed back
      - On 29 September Ludendorff advised the German government to sue for peace immediately.
- - - - Great lost of money from Germany and Great Britain (60% of their income was spent)
        
        taxes raised
      - to buy more supplies, more money was made
  - - - Russia (Czar Nicholas II)
      - Germany (Kaiser Wilhelm)
      - Austria (Emperor Charles)
      - The sultan of the Ottoman Empire stepped down
    - - Austria-Hungary was separated
      - Poland gained land from Germany and Russia
      - Great Britain and France took over the middle East
      - Turkey surged from the remains of the Ottoman Empire
    - - Communism
      - The Soviet Union emerged
  - - - migrated to other parts of the world
    - - replaced men in factories and offices.
      - rights to women
        
        could vote
        
        around the world
- - - - Germans
        
        Food based on Turnip
        
        stew turnip
        
        turnip bread
        
        bunch of alcohol and tobacco
        
        3500 kcal per food
      - British
        
        variety of food types
        
        ex: cheese
        
        they didn't consume as much alcohol
        
        4500 kcal per food
    - - on average soldiers ate 1300 kcal on each meal
        
        the extra calories came from snacks and drinks
  - - - Feldgrau uniform.
      - they used a pickle horn helmet as protection and also worked as a distinctive
    - - khaki uniform.
      - Used steel helmets to protect themselves from flying rocks from explosions