continued presentations today.trench warfare - warfare in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from a relatively permanent system of trenches protected by barbed wire entanglement.Problems in the Trenches:rat problems (1 pair = 900 offspring). smell of rotting bodies. trench fever caused by lice. death. trench foot. trenches would get water and your foot would start out like athletes foot but it got so bad they would have to get it amputated. giant frogs.war strategies:The Schlieffen Plan (Germany)the main idea of the plan was to win a two front war by first quickly defeating France in the west and then turn east to fight russi. the plan scheduled 39 days fo rthe fall of Paris and 42 for the capitulation of France. They must do this before the Russians teamroller would be able to mobilise and descend upone East Prussia, so they had time to turn around.it was planned to go through belgium to attack France.The Schliefen ended up failing because Germany's right flank of German soldiers advanced too quick leaving the supplies to far behind. They wer slowed down by the British because the British had promised to keep belgium neutral and safe. one of the major drawbacks of the Schlieffen plan was that it called for the invasion of neutral states in order to pass German troops to France.Plan 17 (France)General Joseph Joffre presented Plan 17 in 1913. WHen Germany had declared war in 1914, Frane began plan seventeen with five initiatives, also known as the Battle of the Frontiers:Battle of Mulhouse (7-10 August 1914), Battle of Lorraine (14-25 august 1914) Battle of the Ardennes, Battle of CHarleroi, Battle of Mons. Not like the other plans, this plan was a plan of concentration and it didn't include a fixed military strategy. Plan 17 remained flizeble to permit an offensive into belgium or lorraine. the onl failure in plan 17 was that they failed to accomplish the battle of charleroi. other than the battle of charleroi plan 17 succeeded but the french was more defeding their country rather than going out and fighting others.Plan G (Russia)Russia had put together two different plan for ww1which were plan g and plan a aka plan 19. Plan G was made in case germany would do an all out attack against russia which was the exact opposite of what actually happened.Plan 19 (Russia) plan 19 was less dreastic with its initil sacrifice of Russian manpower. Rusia's French partners wanted them to have more of an offensive war strategy. plan 19 was made by general danilov greatly modified in 1912 and if germany didn't attack the french first this wouldn't have worked. this being the case, two russian armies would go to east prussia and to silesia en route to central germany. Russia at the same time would make use of a fortress defence to protect themselves from the other invading forces. pln 19 ended failing because germany defeated russia at tannenberg and the first and second battles of masurian lakes.American Expeditionary Forces:all of he military personnel (army, navy, marines, air force) equipment and weaponry, medican staff, support and maintenance supplies, was sent to the western front y president wilson. the first american troops were called doughboys which first landed in europe in june 1917. but hthe AEF didn't fight until late october 1917. the aef left all their weapons behind and used french and british weapons.Plan B and R (Austria-Hungary)austria hungary's plans weren't as well discussed as germanys and russia's. plan b outlined the requirement for 6 austro-hungarian armies in the field and 3 of them were going to invade sebia while the other 3 guarded the Russian border to persuade an attak from that quarter. plan r was an essentially revised version of plan b allowing greater volumes of troops to guard against russia assistance for the sebians.in the south while also assuming th germnas activity in the north. this had led to 4 armies being deployed against russia and two against serbia.United Kingdom/ Britain:britain didn't want war to break out because they had no reason for explanding their country. ritain didn't devise a plan like france russia austria hungary and germany and USA. in ansense of a conscriptedarmy, the british exeditionary force was going to be transported. the got transported to the continent and then went the rest of the way on the railroad to belgium and the left flank of the french. It was estimated to take three full weeks to get the army mobilised. Germay and France banked on that it will only take 15 days to mobilise. Britian's idea of helping the French with soldiers ended up succeeding since the allied powers won.
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