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What were the main events?
The war of movement, 1914 – the battle for the
frontiers
Germany needed to avoid a long war on two fronts, given its lack of natural
frontier defences.
The coming war would be waged against France and Russia, both of which had
large forces.
Germany needed to defeat France first. The rapid defeat of France in 1870 gave
the military planners confidence that the same could be achieved now.
German forces would hold the French attacks until the right wing had taken
Paris and moved to attack the French from the rear
tactics
the schiefen plan
what was it?
Schlieffen Plan: war plan devised by the German Chief of Staff. It consisted of attacking rapidly, and crossing Belgium, on the western front and then acting against Russia
many results were perfect for the germans, taking into account they had destroyed in war terms austria and france in recent conflicts.
Schlieffen Plan: war plan devised by the German Chief of Staff. It consisted of attacking rapidly, and crossing Belgium, on the western front and then acting against Russia
The way in which the Germans attacked Paris changed everything, in short, Germany had triumphed over the French because of the change of the East when attacking, this greatly confused the French, who did not see a better solution than to give in
Next step of the war
This countries used trenches which were very effective in this situation but was very hard to win territory
France and Britain used that strategy against Germany in french territory
Strategie
They used Artillery and
machine guns, together with rapid-fire magazine rifles which were very efective
They built trenches a wholes which they used to attack other people
To win, forces had to break though the trench lines, then engage with the
enemy, destroy the opposing armies and move through to take key strategic
points to prevent further resistance.
Battle of the Somme
1916 some British and France forces battle against Germany in which the British amassed large quantities of forces in order to battle the Germans in the battle of the Somme.
This battle took place in the 13 km of the front and thousends of shells were fired, at the end it was considered the battle in which the most shells and power were fired. The hardest bombardment happened during this fight
At the end the Allied forces were not able to win because there was a lack in planning and the communication with the generals was very troublesome.
But it did end up helping the North forces break through because the Germans were focused on the North giving a lack of attention to the South