The Development of a Stalemate on the Western Front

The deadlock in the development of the Western Front is that when two powers meet and neither side can go forward, what they can do is to tap and grasp their position. In the context of the First World War, both France and Germany dug down the entire Swiss border over 400 miles of the British canal in a very well designed trench, causing a very large number of defense-based wars It was. There are four main reasons why the West Battlefield is stalled.

World War I was done in various ways. After Belgium entered France, Germany first developed a two-year deadlock along the western line. The worst deadlock during that time was Verdun, which sacrificed the life of about one million people and did not bring about any change in either side position.

By the end of 1914 the war stalled. Both sides are captured at two major front lines, mainly in the western front in the northeastern part of France, the eastern war front centered on the western part of Russia. At the forefront, the troops fought each other from a number of interconnected entrenchments. Each side besieges the opponent's entrenchment system and is about to break through their defense. When the war ended finally on November 11, 1918 when the central government was defeated, the political order of Europe became unrecognizable. Germany, Austria - Hungarian Empire, Russia, the Ottoman Empire collapsed. The new area was divided from the previous land and the boundaries of many other countries were subdivided. This war also served to promote the Russian Bolshevik Revolution as a pioneer of communism ideology.

At the end of 1914, the Germans launched the spring attack on March 21, 1918, and the fighting of the ditch on the Western front took the advantage. After the rally of the military in 1915, the western front was involved in the same deadlock determined by consumption. Since the continuous groove line has no open side, front attacks and related casualties are inevitable. Due to the enormous reserves used for expensive counterattacks and massive artillery exposed to attackers, the defending casualties match the casualties of the attacking side. In some periods, for example during the Battle of Somme, the strict war collapsed, but the route never moved far. The party that can deliver the final reserve to the West Line will win the war.