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02 THE COURSE OF THE WAR
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First phase
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Germany launched a rapid attack against France through Belgium with the intention of dominating it quickly
a combined action by Germans and Austro-Hungarians repelled early Russian advances on the Eastern Front
the powers were still confident of a quick victory guaranteed by the readiness of their armies and the modernity of new weapons deployed on the battlefield
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Second phase
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Triple Entente troops held back the Germans on the Western Front along the Marne River, near Paris
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To protect themselves from the enemy, soldiers had to dig complex systems of trenches
attempts of the military high commands to breach the lines resulted in bloody battles, like the First Battle of the Somme
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Third phase
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llied counterattacks and the progressive loss of support from Germany led the German army to conclude that the war could not be won
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president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, proposed a peace plan, known as Wilson’s Fourteen Points
After the defeat of the central empires, the armistice was signed
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