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A brief overview of the beginning of WWI including trench warfare
Title: A brief overview of the beginning of WWI including trench warfare
Category: History / War & Conflicts
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A brief overview of the beginning of WWI including trench warfare
Background
Following the assassination of Francis Ferdinand, all of the "Big 5" European countries were plunged into The Great War because of the intricate alliances set up by Otto Von Bismarck and other European political leaders. As the landscape of the war began to take shape, Germany set its Von Schlieffen Plan into motion. To eliminate the possibility of a two front war, the Von Schlieffen Plan stated that the Germany must swing through Belgium, and …showed first 75 words of 342 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 342 total…of trench-based warfare may have played a significant part in the war's casualties; ten to thirteen million people died and another thirty million were wounded in this war.
Works Cited
Bull, Stephen. World War I Trench Warfare (I) 1914-16. New York: Osprey
Co., 2002.
Duffy, Michael. First World War.com. 28 Nov. 2003
<http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/trenchlife.htm>
Encyclopaedia of the First World War. 28 Nov. 2003
<http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWtrench.htm>.
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