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The stalemate

The GREAT war

Student: Eliott FERRATON
Student: Clara ROBERT
Student: Antoine GABRIELLI

01. Why the stalemate developped ?

03. How the stalemate was finally broken ?

02. How the generals tried to break the stalemate but failed ?

Index

Why a stalemate developped ?

.01

  • 1914 ----> March 1918 stalemate on Western Front

  • Trenches easy to defend (both side)

  • Methode: artillery bombarment followed by infantry attack

  • One machine guns = mow hundred of advancing soldiers

  • Impossible to hold on to them

  • New techniques ideas (both sides new weapons, poison gaz in april 1915, aeroplides, artillery more accurate, camouflage)

.02

How the generals tried to break the stalemate but failed

  • 1916 the War of Attrition

  • Strategy military

  • The batte of Verdun (February-July 1916)

  • The Battle of the Somme ( July-November 1916)

    • No progress

    .03

    How the stalemate was finally broken?

      • March 1918: The German Breakthrough = end of stalemate


      • August 1918 to November 1918 : The Hundred Days
        The allies ( Triple Entente) help their line Sir Douglas Haig led the Britsish army advanced hardware technology (Armoured cars, tanks, radio communications...)