Comparing World War I's Western And Eastern Front

World War I’s Western and Eastern Front had distinctive characteristics that proved that they were admirable rivals in the terms of whose front was more proper in warfare. The Western Front consisted of the Allied Forces of Belgium, France, Great Britain, Portugal and the United States, since April of 1917, and a few additional small countries against Germany’s Imperial Army, and the Eastern Front consisted of the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire against Russia. The wars on each front resembled two completely different worlds. The Western Front was characterized by a stalemate that lasted for four years, while the Eastern Front was marked by mobility. This resulted in different types of war tactics,

They could not defend the vast area with trenches since the enemy could just go around them, hence why this front was more mobile. The Eastern Front was the war that everyone was expecting; mass armies making sweeping movements, breakthroughs leading to tremendous advances, and innovation in both tactics and technology. After mobilization, Russia’s army stood at 3.5 million men, which was split up between the German border and East Prussia, while ninety percent of Germany’s troops were in France, 150,000 of the Hapsburg’s troops were located in Serbia, and 500,000 Austria-Hungarian troops settled on Russia’s Southwestern border. Various plans were drawn up from both sides that focused on swift attacks, such as the Sclieffen Plan, Mobilization Schedule, Staffel A, Plan XVII, and many more. Also, women played a more major role in this war. 300 strong-women’s battalion formed in May 1917 under the command of Maria Bockareva. Known as the Women’s Battalion of Death, it was recorded that they captured 2,000 Austrian prisoners, but they were forced to disband due to the fear the women’s success would provoke enemy reprisals. Weapons and war machines such as zeppelins, airplanes, tanks, poisonous gases, rifles, revolvers, grenades, and a multitude of others forced their way into the battles. Bloodshed erupted on this front turning it into a war of

It effected the Western Front, Eastern Front, and the rest of Europe in remotely the same way. It changed the way of economics, government, technology, and overall societies. On November 11, 1918, the German government signed an armistice to end fighting. In January 1919, representatives from 27 different Allied nations met in Paris to make a peace settlement. The three major countries and leaders in this final settlement was President Woodrow Wilson of the United States, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain, and Premier Georges Clemenceau of France. Each of these three people wanted different belongings for their country. Wilson wished for self-determination, his Fourteen Points, and most importantly a League of Nations to prevent future wars and to maintain peace. Clemenceau requested national security, reparations from Germany to pay for war costs, for Germany to be stripped of all of its weapons, and a buffer state, Rhineland, between them and Germany. Lloyd George aspired for only one thing, make the Germans pay for war costs. Secret agreements between nations made some of these desires difficult and the only way to get what they wanted was through compromise. On January 25, 1919, the Paris Peace Conference accepted the League of Nations proposed by Wilson, and in return, he granted them territorial gains. France was also granted its national security. Finally,