USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I

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Battles fought on the France-German border

(A) Eastern front

(B) ** Western front

(C) Northern front

(D) Southern front

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Among the most costly of these offensives were the Battle of Verdun, in 1916, with a combined 700, 000 casualties, the Battle of the Somme, also in 1916, with more than a million casualties, and the Battle of Passchendaele, in 1917, with 487, 000 casualties.

Concept note-2: -Many battles became household names in Australia: Fromelles, the Somme, Bullecourt, Messines, Passchendaele, Villers-Bretonneux, Hamel, Amiens and Mont St Quentin. Over 295, 000 Australians served on the Western Front between March 1916 and November 1918.

Concept note-3: -The British Expeditionary Force, fighting on the battlefields in Belgium and France for four years, also translated the German name of “die Westfront” into English, and named this battle front in France as “The Western Front”.