There were more than 650,000 casualties on both sides, and although British had relieved the French at Verdun, they had only advanced about five miles. The battle ended in a stalemate, after torrential rain turned the trenches into a quagmire. On the first day alone the British lost 60,000 men. It began with a massive week-long British artillery barrage that proved futile, since the Germans just sheltered in their dug-outs until the shelling stopped, then machine-gunned waves of British troops who were crossing no-man's land.
No territory was gained Battle in WWI that ended in massive casualties and had little direct result Somme A five-month offensive between July and November 1916 in the Somme river area in France. French drew reserve troops from the Somme to help defend. Is considered some of the bloodiest fighting in WWI and the German offense was stopped offensive battle on the western front initiated by Germany in which they hoped to crush France and taken them out of the war, however France was in a very good defensive position and French held it for 10 months.
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Lloyd George British prime minister, although he was re-elected for his popular campaign of making Germany pay for the war, he ended up fighting the most for German interests in the Versailles Treaty because he feared communism Marne Germans had taken over the River and pushed back Britain and France in a series of attacks Battle near paris that ended Germany's hope of swift victory, the first battle of WWI happened where the French and British stopped the Germans and the Schlieffen Plan.
He pushed for a revenge-based treaty at Versailles, hampering the 14 points. Vittorio Orlando He was the Italian representative at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Wanted to make Germans suffer and help break Germany up. Pushed for heavy reparations from Germans. armistice a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms reparations payment for damages after a war George Clemenceau French prime minister in last years of WWI and during Versailles Conference of 1919. The Zimmerman note militarism policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war nationalism pride in one's country imperialism A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically. enter World War I? -Germany was attacking American ships WW1 Strategies Tanks, poison gas, land mines to blow up trenches, advanced artillery, trench warfare weapon that caused stalemate machine gun Why did the U.S. His murder was one of the causes of WW I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914.
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