Western Front, the War at Sea and the War in the Air
The western front was a very important part of the war. This was the
main reason the war was lost by Germany. The Battle of the Somme,
Verdun and trench warfare was the main reasons for the German defeat.
In September 1914, the combined French and British armies halted the
German advance before Paris at the Battle of the Marne. The exhausted
Germans fell back, and dug trenches protected by machine guns to
defend the land that they occupied. The British and the French then
dug trenches opposite the German front line and this was the beginning
of trench warfare. Trench warfare was said to drag the war on a great
deal. Both sides tried to make breakthroughs but kept failing. The
failure at the Battle of the Marne determined that trench warfare
would be used. Trench warfare had awful living conditions and disease
was spread easily and both sides built a great deal of trenches. It
wasn't that important in the war, all it did was drag the war on.
There are two major events that occurred in the western front and
these are the Schlieffen plan and Stalemate. The Schlieffen plan was
Germany's pre-war plan and it failed within two months of the start of
the war. Before the war Germany believed that it would not be able to
fight a war on two fronts against France in the west and Russia in the
east. The German military planned to attack France by sending neutral
troops through Belgium and taking Paris within six weeks. They also
planned to attack Russia in the on the eastern front. This was called
the Schlieffen plan. The Schlieffen plan began at the start of
September 1914 and by October 19...
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... my final conclusion I feel that all three fronts were
linked together. The blockade was one of the main reasons the war
ended and this was the war at sea. Reconnaissance gave information on
the bombardment of the Somme and this was a main battle at the Western
Front. The war at sea was the most important factor due to the
blockade. The blockade-stopped supplies coming into Germany, the
German moral went down and the conditions of German people were awful
and many people began to die. At the time though people thought that
the Western Front was the most important factor but they did not think
about the other two factors. Without the war at sea and the war in the
air the Western Front would not be important at all. The Western Front
was more important than the war in the air but not as important as the
war at sea.
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and the plan had failed, also as the French had no back up plan they
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