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Germany between 1914-1917, 1916, 1914, 1915, 1917 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - germans forced to send reserves to shore up austrian allies
        
        eventually managed to halt and reverse russian attack - brusilov offensive
        
        German Armies became more stretchd in August 1916, when Romanians entered on the side of the allies
        
        Falkenhayn fell from his position
        
        German War casualties in 1916 totalled 1.5 million
- - - - In the east: German armies, under command of General Hindenburg & Ludendorff, won 2 great battles at Tannenberg & the Masurian Lakes. Victory made commanders folk heros
        
        End of September, Defining moment of the war. First battle of Marne, German Armies halted within shelling distance of Paris. Withdrew to the River Aisne and started to dig in.
        
        Rest of the year, both sides tried to outflank each other, in a 'race to the sea". Result was a stalemate: hundreds of miles of tenches and around 650,000 German casualties on both front by the end of 1914
- - - - Hugely successful campaign in Galicia in Poland threw the Russian army back over 250 miles.
        
        despite massive Russian losses it was not enough to knock Russia out of the war
        
        On Western Front, Allies suffered great losses, attaching german defensive positions, little gain
- - - - in April 1917 USA declared war on germany