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The First World War
PHASES OF THE WAR
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Trench warfare (1915–16)
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They built trenches (ditches in the ground) from where they could defend themselves using new weapons, such as machine guns, heavy artillery, tanks, poison gas and flamethrowers
To break the Western Front, new military tactics were used to wear the enemy down by continually attacking the same place
They used battleships and submarines; in the Battle of Jutland, the British fleet defeated the German fleet
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THE CAUSES OF THE WAR
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France wanted to recover the region of Alsace-Lorraine, which it had lost to the German Empire after the Franco-Prussian War
Great Britain saw the supremacy of its merchant navy threatened when the German Empire, which had become an economic power during the Second Industrial Revolution
THE PEACE SETTLEMENT
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After long negotiations between the representatives of the victorious countries, the Paris Peace Settlement was agreed on (1919–1920)
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