Western Front
Belgian-French battleground
The Western Front was the main theater of fighting in Western Europe during World War I, stretching from the English Channel through Belgium and France to the Swiss border.
It became synonymous with brutal trench warfare, massive casualties, and military stalemate: All Quiet on the Western Front.
The term was revived in World War II for the Allied campaign against Germany from the west.
- VerdunWWI battleground city
- trench warfareCombat from fortified ditches
- barbed wireSpiked metal fence material
- World War IFirst global military conflict
- FranceWestern European republic
shell shock · machine guns · battlefield · Battle of the Somme · Flanders · poppies · artillery bombardment · war poetry · Christmas truce · poison gas · gas mask · war of attrition · no man's land · trenches · Ypres · Remembrance Day · Belgium · frontline
- Ireland WWIEaster Rising, Gallipoli, the Somme, Somme, war dead
- World War Itrenches, trench warfare, soldiers, battlefields, Treaty of Versailles
- World War IIAllies, Nazi, Hitler, Axis, Third Reich
- WWItrenches, no man's land, no mans land, trench warfare, armistice
- WWIID-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Hiroshima, Holocaust
- WWI militarytrenches, ANZAC, trench warfare, Tommies, no man's land
Western FrontEastern Front
Soviet-German combat theater
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