Fronts

Fronts by Tabitha **__Fronts: __** __Western, Eastern, Italian, and Gallipoli __ · Front: were many battles took place · There were a lot of trenches that ran 700 kilometers from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border and were given its name by the German. · //"When day dawned we were astonished to see, by degrees, what a sight surrounded us. The sunken road now appeared as nothing but a series of enormous shell-holes filled with pieces of uniform, weapons, and dead bodies. The ground all round, as far as the eye could see, was ploughed by shells. You could search in vain for one wretched blade of grass. This churned-up battlefield was ghastly. Among the living lay the dead. As we dug ourselves in we found them in layers stacked one upon the top of another. One company after another had been shoved into the drum-fire and steadily annihilated. " // **//Ernst Junger, after a night march to the front line at Guillemont//** · WWI began as a disruption in Southern Europe but then soon spread to worldwide. This then lead to two of the biggest bloodlettings; the battles of the Somme and Verdun. · The western part of this battle was mainly taken place in Belgium and France. · By October 1918, German field commanders said that the war was militarily lost, and that a truce had to be searched for . · It was on November 11, 1918 the war finally came to an end. · Millions of deaths were caused on the Western Front alone. This took place between the years 1914-1918. · Austria, Russia and Germany plunged their countries into a world war. · The eastern front took place between the years 1914-1917. · Even though the Western Front with its British, French and American combatants achieved a greater fame, the statistics for the Eastern war are grim. · More than three million men died fighting. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">More than nine million were wounded. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Every major country that was involved lost its form of government. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Russia crashed entirely that the consequences they had then, are still consequences they face today. · //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"When [such a] mass suffers enormous losses; when they feel, as they will feel, that other and less costly means of achieving the same end might have been adopted, what will become of their morale?"- //**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Henderson ** · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Russian army of world war one was known for their poorly equipped troops, but in 1914 Russia’s army was actually very well trained for war. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Russian Amy’s problem with war was the fact that they were not able to carry on the field formations during the war. · //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">“If the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain. . . then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.”- //**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Sun Tsu ** · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Italy began the Great War in 1915, they hoped to tilt the balance of force against the Central Powers, with would then hopefully end the war quickly and allow them to gain some long sought after territorial gains on the cheap. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By 1916 Italy realized that the war had been not in only one part, but all over the nation. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Italy’s government had to show this trouble with some achievements on the battlefield. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Italian front mostly was during the year 1916. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Between the years 1915-1916 the Gallipoli front was taking place. · <span style="color: #9ec630; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Winston Churchill was the man who was <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">considered the greatest political figure in 20th-century Britain. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Allied leaders, including Winston Churchill and Lord Kitchener, scoured their maps to find a way around the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">disagreement. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Russians had thought that the Black Sea would provide a good base for the attacking the Central Powers.
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