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- causes for us involvement : sinking ships (lusitania) + unrestricted submarine warfare
- battle plans :
trench warfare : (tranchees)
germany took over Luxembourg and Belgium
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us : industrial strength
GB: battalion from 10 waves with 100 yd between each, first 6 waves were the fighting elements, 7th contained the battalion headquarters, 8th and 9th were to move equipment forward, 10th contained the strecher
FR: attempting to reach the english channel trying to outflank the germans, creeping barrage tactic, artillery units would fire, small group of infantry, mustard gas and phosgene gas.
GER: Schlieffen plan :
Kaiser Wilhelm
Russia:
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WWI test topics : causes of WWI, chain events, alliances, weapons, strategies, us battles and how us got involved, goals
Allied powers : GB, FR and RUS (portugal, italy, japan), associated powers, us
Central powers : GER, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria (azerbaidjan, lithuania)
germany wanted land
Von Schlieffen plan : go through belgium and capture paris in 6 weeks
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