1. Where were the three European fronts in the war? The three fronts in the European war were the Westerns, the Balkans and the Russians (eastern).
2. Briefly describe what happened on each of these three fronts. On the western front they were struggling with putting up a good defense but with their strategy of using attrition they became more successful. They still had many casualties because the enemies were using deep trenches, barbed-wire everywhere, land mines and huge amount of machine guns. There were 700,000 German casualties, 90,000 British and 850,000 French. For the Russia and Balkan fronts it was the opposite. There was more of a fluidity of movement in that war zone. Germany took the wide landscape for their advantage and they defended Prussia by using the railways. Russia had planned out to get Germany to go to Prussia to help France regain its numbers, but Germany utilized this by defeating one Russian army and then the other. On the …show more content…
Why did Russia suffer so many defeats in 1915? Russia suffered many defeats in 1915 because economically Russia was not strong. Germanys economy was booming and Russia’s was not, which made Germany have an upper hand. They could not support the wage that modern warfare needed to succeed. Also political clashes between the Duma and the imperial bureaucracy were going on about who had “jurisdictions and prerogatives, which made them argue about who was responsible in the defeats.
7. Why did the Provisional Government in Russia collapse in 1917? The Provisional Government in Russia collapsed in 1917 because the Russians never got connected with the government. The Provisional Government "never sank roots in to the country”. Without the peoples acceptance it could not last. It lasted for eight months and instead of it being overthrown it collapsed. The Russians wanted peace and land reform but the provisional government could not give them that. This made the Russians unhappy and not like the provisional
2. Briefly describe what happened on each of these three fronts. On the western front they were struggling with putting up a good defense but with their strategy of using attrition they became more successful. They still had many casualties because the enemies were using deep trenches, barbed-wire everywhere, land mines and huge amount of machine guns. There were 700,000 German casualties, 90,000 British and 850,000 French. For the Russia and Balkan fronts it was the opposite. There was more of a fluidity of movement in that war zone. Germany took the wide landscape for their advantage and they defended Prussia by using the railways. Russia had planned out to get Germany to go to Prussia to help France regain its numbers, but Germany utilized this by defeating one Russian army and then the other. On the …show more content…
Why did Russia suffer so many defeats in 1915? Russia suffered many defeats in 1915 because economically Russia was not strong. Germanys economy was booming and Russia’s was not, which made Germany have an upper hand. They could not support the wage that modern warfare needed to succeed. Also political clashes between the Duma and the imperial bureaucracy were going on about who had “jurisdictions and prerogatives, which made them argue about who was responsible in the defeats.
7. Why did the Provisional Government in Russia collapse in 1917? The Provisional Government in Russia collapsed in 1917 because the Russians never got connected with the government. The Provisional Government "never sank roots in to the country”. Without the peoples acceptance it could not last. It lasted for eight months and instead of it being overthrown it collapsed. The Russians wanted peace and land reform but the provisional government could not give them that. This made the Russians unhappy and not like the provisional