The First World War – Western Front http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/animations/western_front/in dex_embed.shtml

German War Plans- Von Schlieffen and Von Moltke (actual)

French Response- Plan XVII

Germans invade through Belgium, August 1914

Advance slowed and stopped by British at Mons and by the French outside Paris at the Marne

Allies win the Race to the Sea, and trench lines form

Trench warfare-lines remain similar for next 3 years

1915- Germans try poison gas to break deadlock

Allies respond with failed attacks of their own

Lusitania sunk as part of German submarine warfare

1916- The BIG PUSH- Verdun by the Germans

1916- the Big Push- Allies at the Somme

The German and British navies clashed at Jutland in 1916- ended in a draw

By 1917 the war had expanded to the air Zeppelins Dogfighting and Aerial Warfare

The Zimmerman note scandal finally brought the U. S The Zimmerman note scandal finally brought the U.S. into the war in 1917

In 1918, the Germans made one last great attack- Operation Michael, using their new storm troopers. These made progress but failed.

The effects of the blockade and the addition of the Americans finally broke the German armies.

November 11, 1918 – 11 am, armistice signed