Warfronts

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Warfronts Weapons

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• Alta Loma High School

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Schlieffen Plan

• Plan for Germany to attack France quickly and
  avoid a two front war
• Plan failed

www.schoolhistory.co.uk
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Plan assumed

• Russia at least 6 weeks to mobilize
• France easily defeated in 6 weeks
• Belgium would not resist
• Britain would remain neutral

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Reality

• Belgium BEF held up Germany
• Russia mobilized in 10 days Ggt forced to defend
  east
• G did not attack Paris, held up by France _at_ Marne

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Western Front

• Trench warfare
• Small land gains
• Germany vs. UK France

http//www.collectinghistory.net/trench.jpg
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http//www.uoregon.edu/kimball/images/maps/1914-W
W1.RUS.Ctq39.jpg
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Eastern Front

• Absence of trenches
• Larger land gains
• German, Austrians, Turks vs. Russia Serbs
• More mobile warfare

http//clevelode-battletours.com/images/usaargonne
tank.jpg
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Both Fronts

• Huge numbers of soldiers killed
• Mass destruction of land
• Deplorable conditions
• Stalemates

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Battle of Marne, 1914 1918

• Germany moves thru Belgium
• French troops move to halt advance
• British Expeditionary Forces (BEF) join
• G. halted defensive
• By end May 1918 G. _at_ Marne again

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Army
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Battle of Ypres, 1914,1915,1917

• 1914 BEF stops G.
• 1915 1st use of poison gas by Germany

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http//www.eurekacouncil.com.au/Australia-History/
History-Pages/1917-battle_of_passchendaele.htm
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• 1917 over-ambitious aims bad weather led to
  250,000 dead

http//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/FileSecond_Batt
le_of_Passchendaele_-_wounded.jpg
http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b
/The_Way_to_the_Front.jpg
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Battle of Verdun, 1916

• Unsuccess. G battle w/ France
• No strategic gains anyone
• F Gen Joseph Joffre Ils ne passeront pas They
  shall not pass!
• 3 F forts surrender to G
• UK Russia help F
• G on defense
• By Nov, F back to Feb position

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http//www.wereldoorlog1418.nl/battleverdun/battle
verdun33/afterbattle.jpg
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http//www.wereldoorlog1418.nl/battleverdun/battle
verdun66/fotokerkhof01.jpg
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Battle of Somme, 1916

• One of biggest slaughters
• UK plan march across no-mans, fail rid wire gun
  post
• Huge losses both
• July-Nov UK 3 miles short 1st day objective

http//www.english.illinois.edu/maps/ww1/photoessa
y.htm
http//www.columbia.edu/itc/history/winter/w3206/e
dit/sommebattle.html
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Battle of Cambrai, 1917

• Ex of tank surprise break trench deadlock
• 476 tanks move against G
• Calvary fail take full adv.

http//pages.123-reg.co.uk/jerryandjanet-526112/th
egreatwar/id3.html
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