triple entante
great britain , france , russia
triple alliance
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
central powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire
allies
one side in World War I; Great Britain, France, and Russia, later joined by the U.S.
Sir Edward Grey
Britain's minister predicted that they will have a long and bloody war
Western front
line of trenches that stretched from the English Channel across switzerland
Schliefen plan
Germany's plan to attack france.
General Alfred Graf von Schliefen
created germany's plan
first of the Marne
German army was defeated by the Franco-British army
trench warfare
soldiers fire on one another from opposing lines of trenches
no man's land
Territory between rival Trenches
battle of Verdun
Germany attacked France in Verdun; France won
battle of Somme
British attacked Germany in somme; 20,000 british soldiers killed
eastern front
the region along the German-Russian Border .
battle of Tannenberg
4 day battle, germans crushed russia
what germany did on august 1
declared war on russia b/e they mobilized along german border
what germany did on august 3
declared war on france
Bulgaria and Ottoman Empire join central powers
in hopes of regaining lost territories
why Italy didn't join central powers
they accused their former partners of unjustly starting the war
why germany faced a two front war
they had france in the west and russia in the east
beginning & end of the western front. its length ?
1914-1916 ; english channel-switzerland
new weapons of WW1
poison gas, tank, flame thrower, machine gun, submarine
problem Russia faced in war
attacked Austria and germany but germany counter attack killing 30,00+ russian soldiers
major asset the russian army had
it had an enormous population