Question on WWI?

Question

there were two battlefields during WWI, the Western and Eastern Front.
My question is how do these two fronts different and same ?

Answer 1

They differed in location and partially in the combatants engaged. Germany was engaged on both fronts. The Eastern Front also involved Russia and Austria-Hungary. You could also consider Gallipoli part of the Eastern Front--it involved Turkey and Britain--but many historians would consider it a third front.

Both fronts involved trench warfare as well as mobile campaigns, but the Western Front was probably the more stationary and bloody front.

The Western Front primarily involved Britain and France (joined by the U.S.A.) against Germany, with other allies involved in lesser degrees. The Western Front was stalemated much of the war. Most of the heaviest casualties were recorded on this front. The Western Front saw greater employment of airpower by both sides.

There were really many more than two battlefields during World War I. On the Western Front Verdun and the Somme were notable for their heavy casualties. The Ardennes saw some of the heaviest fighting as well, and--of course--there was Gallipoli.

The Eastern Front quieted considerably after Russia withdrew as a combatant following the 1917 Revolution.

You can also consider the Atlantic Ocean a battlefield, since World War I was also a naval war, with history's most recent full scale fleet action--the Battle of Jutland--taking place in 1916.

Answer 2

The Western front was more static warfare involving trenches, bunkers, barbed wire and stationary gun nests.
The Eastern front and I am assuming this is referring to Germany against Russia used more old style tactics like cavalry but still utilised gas warfare.
There was also the conflict between the Austro-Hungarian empire and Italy which was fought mainly in the Alps and mountains. This could be considered to be a Southern front.
Then there was the conflict with the Ottoman empire where numerous strategies were involved including using disenchanted Arabs in guerilla tactics to disrupt supply lines and naval vessels to block supplies entering their ports.

There was also a small scale conflict in Africa between countries that were colonised under German control and those under British etc... The Germans were able to use guerilla tactics so well that they surrendered well after the war had been over.

Answer 3

Marne, Belleau wood, Falkland Islands, Ypres, Verdun, Otranto Straits, Gaza, Aisne, Ramadi, Vittorio Veneto, Jerusalem, Jutland, Asiago, Trentino, Beersheba, the Isonzo, Liege, Lorraine, the Ardennes, Tannenberg, Kut, Tikrit, Mons, Suez Canal, Scarborough, Champagne, Basra, Antwerp, Falluja, the Somme, Tsingtao, Givenchy... Now run and get your map.

Answer 4

First hand accounts of life on the the front!

Thank you for yor intrest!

The Dominion Institute

This is a good place for you to find the answers that you are looking for.

My Grandfather and my Great Uncle served in WW1. My Grandfather was wounded in a battle in France. He spent the rest of his life in a Veterans Hospital on Christie Street in Toronto, until he past away in the early 1960s.

Thanx for your question!
Bruce