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Conditions on the Western Front during world war one. Why did Haig decide to fight in the Somme?
Title: Conditions on the Western Front during world war one. Why did Haig decide to fight in the Somme?
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Conditions on the Western Front during world war one. Why did Haig decide to fight in the Somme?
WORLD WAR 1 COURSEWORK
Question 1: Describe the conditions that soldiers experienced on the Western Front in the years 1915-1917.
From 1915 to 1917, the First World War was fought in trenches. The trench systems built along the Western Front were very complicated. Both sides dug a line from the English Channel to the Swiss border, to protect their armies during the winter. The British front-line trenches were between two and three metres deep and 1.5 metres wide. Either wood or …showed first 75 words of 5695 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 5695 total…somewhat weakened. The allied troops had failed on Haig's second objective, which was to break the German forces into two. The weakening of the German forces may have contributed to the eventual victory for the Allied forces in 1918. After the war Germany admitted that the Somme was a turning point in the war and that the weakening of the German army at the Somme did help to bring about the eventual end of the war.
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