Why the Stalemate on the Western Front Was Broken

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Why the Stalemate on the Western Front Was Broken

All of these reasons are important reasons as to why stalemate finally

broke on the western front and they are all linked in various ways,

The development of new technology like the tank was a important

contributor but not the most important as there were advantages and

disadvantages to the tank, advantages being that it caused a lot of

alarm within the German troops and was a great moral boost among the

British troops, another advantage was that it could advance ahead of

the troops crashing through the enemies barbed wire and spraying the

enemy with machine gym fire.

The disadvantages of the tank was that when the tank was first

developed not many people new how to use it and it did not have much

effect as none of the men could keep up with the tank so it was always

advancing to far ahead of the troops, the tank was almost to effective

as it would blast through the enemies lines so quickly the infantry

could not keep up. Germany also started inventing the tank so the

sides were once again equal.

There were also other new inventions like the new types of gasses for

example chlorine and phosgene, there were advantages and disadvantages

to using these types of gasses for example the disadvantages were that

chlorine could be seen and its effect was immediate. And Phosgene was

a terrible gas that was later developed which could not be seen and

was not effective immediately causing only mild discomfort to begin

with but eventually deadly.

The American entry into the war was an important contributing factor,

the Americans joined the war in April 1917 they joined as there were

many bad feeling between them and Germany since 1914, they were

officially neutral but they were clearly supplying loans and equipment

to the allies which made the Germans place a policy of unrestricted

submarine welfare against Americans ships which were suspected to be

carrying supplies to the allies. Things started to look down for

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