WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -By December 1914 the First World War had reached a dilemma on the western front that neither the triple entente nor the triple alliance had expected. The war had reached a stalemate, a state where both sides are so evenly balanced that neither can breakthrough against the enemy.

Detailed explanation-2: -The conventional explanation for why the Western Front in World War I settled into a stalemate is that the power of defensive weapons was stronger than the offensive methods employed.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Korean War: Years of Stalemate | U.S. Army Center of Military History.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1918, a series of major German and Allied offensives broke the stalemate of trench warfare on the Western Front, resulting in the near-collapse of the German Army and the end of the fighting before the end of the year.

Detailed explanation-5: -Trench Warfare kept World War I at a stalemate for the first few years of fighting. Trench warfare was used for most of the war on the western front. Long lines of trenches were dug by both sides to protect the soldiers from gunfire and artillery.

Detailed explanation-6: -The war opened with massive, sweeping battles across the European landscape, but then bogged down into a bloody stalemate that lasted nearly three years.