First Battle of the Marne

Powers from advancing onto new territory. Germany created the Schleiffen plan to attack France in the west and quickly shift focus to attack Russia on the east. This significant battle strategy turned out to be a flop. Germany used its wits and intellect to craft a beneficial strategy which helped gain leverage for the first half of the war. On the contrary, the Allies were resilient and resolute and did not give up against the Central Powers. On September 5, 1914, the Allies regrouped and…

assassination of the Archduke, there're many other events that led WW1. Such as the alliances between major European countries. After the assassination, Austria-Hungary threatened war on Serbia. British and German forces first fought at the Battle of Mons in Belgium which was the first battle of many in the Western Front. The war started with particular aspects which are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism. The countries believed that they are stronger in the military and so…

Question: By what means did WWI technological advancements and military strategies reconstruct the ways in which war was impetuously confronted and combatted? The First World War, also known as the Great War, started in 1914 when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, and ended with the final surrender of the Triple Alliance. Throughout these years, many new militaristic inventions were created or were improved upon, and aided the many world powers fighting in the war. America, however,…

Major Battles 1914, 38 million joined, 17 million killed, 20 million wounded. World War 1 was the beginning of serious conflicts between massive countries. Not only were the country’s involved fighting for their own rights as a whole but most importantly they were fighting for justice against their enemies. Conflict is another word for battles, ¨About two-thirds of military deaths in World War 1 were in battle¨. This war has affected countries in an economic and population aspect and has been…

From 1914 to 1939 a lot of events occurred across the world. Over the span of twenty-five years a world war took place, a decade of prosperity, and a depression. All of these events shaped the events of today. The twenty-five year span of events began with the death of Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand. While in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a member of the Black Hand, Gavrilo Princip fired two shots at the motorcade as they backed up. Because of his death, Austria -Hungry soon gained…

on machines not men even though there was infantry and they did charge at each other this was the most brutal war ever fought on this earth they used mustard gas which would eat your skin off. There were some major battles in this conflict like the battle of Tannenberg was a huge battle on the Eastern front where the Russians were fighting the Germans.…

Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, German, and the Allies, which included Russia, Serbia, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and later the United States. After three years of fighting, the U.S. got involved in 1917. The reasons the U.S. entered the war, the battles that were fought, and the outcome of the war had to do with U.S. involvement, which affected the outcome of WWI. The U.S. entered the war in 1917 for many reasons. Germany used several types of unrestrictive warfare including gases,…

On August 2nd, 1914, Germany’s military began moving troops through neutral Belgium in an indirect attempt to weaken the French Army. Ultimately the plan, first penned in 1905 by German Field Marshall Alfred Von Schlieffen, involved a swift invasion of France, complete debilitation of its military, followed by a defensive operation on the Empire’s lengthy shared border with Russia. Although the assassination of Austro-Hungarian archduke Franz Ferdinand did not occur, for nearly 9 years after the…

The Battle of the Somme took place during the First World War between July 1st and November 18th, 1916. On the upper reaches of the Somme River in France, the Allies (United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Africa) fought against the central powers in the largest battle of the First World War. Over one million men were wounded or killed from both forces involved, during what is now called one of the bloodiest military operations recorded in history. The battle had been planned by the…

is greater, then the object will go down or remain on the ground. World War I was the first time that airplanes were used on a large scale. At the start of World War One, aircraft were very basic and crude. By the time World War One had ended, aircraft had become far more sophisticated and had differentiated. The first use of airplanes in World War I was for reconnaissance. The airplanes would fly above…