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Was the Western Front as important as the war at sea and the war in the air?
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Was the Western Front as important as the war at sea and the war in the air? The western front was a very important part of the war. This was the main reason the war was lost by Germany. The Battle of the Somme, Verdun and trench warfare was the main reasons for the German defeat. In September 1914, the combined French and British armies halted the German advance before Paris at the Battle of the Marne. The exhausted Germans fell back, and dug trenches protected by machine guns to defend the land that they occupied. The British and the French then dug trenches opposite the German front line and this was the beginning of trench warfare. Trench warfare was said to drag the war on a great deal. Both sides tried to make breakthroughs but kept failing. The failure at the Battle of the Marne determined that trench warfare...
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