western+front+vs+eastern+front

= = =Western vs Eastern Front= The [|World War I] in 1914, the [|German Army] opened the **Western Front** by first invading [|Luxembourg] and [|Belgium]. Between 1915 and 1917 there were several offensives along this front. Both western and eastern front suffered the same amount of deaths. Russia left World War 1 because of a revolution, and both western and eastern had the same amount of soldiers in their army. They had plans on how they would fight during the war, the Americans, british, and the french made up the western front in World War 1. Chemical weapons in World War 1 were basicly used to demoralized, injure and kill entrenched defenders. Gas was unlike most other weapons in the period, and later in the stages in the war the use of gas increased.
 * 1) Eastern Front had the triple alliance broken by italy
 * 2) Both used trenches but the trenches were more important to the eastern front
 * 3) Both western and eastern front used poison gases
 * 1) In 1915 the german command decided to make its main effort on the eastern front and transefered considerable forces there
 * 2) By 1917 the russian economy neared collapsed under the strain of the war effort
 * 3) allied powers mobilized against germany