Western Front (World War One)

Western Front
Part of World War I
Mark II tank advancing with Canadian infantry at Battle of Vimy Ridge, 1917
Date 4 August 1914 – 11 November 1918 (4 years, 3 months and 1 week) Location Belgium, north-eastern France, Alsace-Lorraine (today France) and western Germany Result Decisive Entente victory Armistice of Compiègne
Belligerents
Entente Powers: France French colonial empire British Empire Australia  Bermuda Canada  India  Newfoundland New Zealand  Southern Rhodesia  South Africa  United Kingdom  United States (from 1917)  Belgium  Italy (from 1915) Portugal (from 1916) Russian Empire (until 1917) Siam (from 1918)	Central Powers:  German Empire  Austria-Hungary
Strength
7,935,000 5,399,563 2,200,000 267,000 Total: ~16,000,000	13,250,000
Casualties and losses
~7,500,000 Breakdown Casualties by country 4,808,000 2,264,200 286,330 93,100 : 22,120 20,870 4,542 civilian deaths: 534,500	~5,500,000 Breakdown Casualties by country 5,490,300 17,300 civilian deaths: 424,000

Decisive Entente victory

Entente Powers:
France

British Empire

Central Powers:

~7,500,000

~5,500,000

The Western Front was the main theatre of war during the First World War. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France. The tide of the advance was dramatically turned with the Battle of the Marne. Following the Race to the Sea, both sides dug in along a meandering line of fortified trenches, stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier with France, which changed little except during early 1917 and in 1918.

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