in world war 1,why did battles on the western front result in little territorial gain?

Question

which is the best answer?and why...
A.German troops focused their efforts on the eastern front.
B.Trench warfare made the movement of troops difficult.
C.Troops on the western front were able to mobilize quickly.
D.Western rivers and mountains provided natural barriers.

Answer 1

Would be none of these.The war was'nt about disputed territory,is was over idealogy
Fact was the germans were winning the eastern front.Most of the western front was fought in France,but not over France.This war was purely over supremacy.Whether Britain,France could retain the status quo or Germany could take over the baton

Answer 2

Battles On The Western Front

Answer 3

B. Trench warfare made troop movements difficult

It was hard to gain any ground when your attack was mowed down by machine guns and artillery in no-man's land.

Answer 4

B, the machine gun and barbed wire were superb defensive tools and difficult to overcome even with artillery.
Aviation was not far enough advanced to make any difference.

Answer 5

B. But D. also has to be taken into consideration in any war.

Answer 6

B and the reason for the trenches was the machine gun.

Answer 7

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World War I

Clockwise from top: Trenches on the Western Front; a British Mark IV tank crossing a trench; Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the Battle of the Dardanelles; a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks, and a Sopwith Camel biplane
Date 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918
Location Europe, Africa and the Middle East (briefly in China and the Pacific Islands)
Result Allied victory. End of the German Empire, the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Creation of many new countries in Eastern and Central Europe.
Casus
belli Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (28 June) followed by Austrian declaration of war on Serbia (28 July) and Russian mobilization against Austria-Hungary (29 July).
Combatants
Allied Powers:
Russian Empire
France
British Empire
Italy
United States
et al. Central Powers:
Austria-Hungary
German Empire
Ottoman Empire
Bulgaria
Commanders
Nicholas II
Aleksei Brusilov
Georges Clemenceau
Joseph Joffre
Ferdinand Foch
Robert Nivelle
Herbert Henry Asquith
Sir Douglas Haig
Sir John Jellicoe
Victor Emmanuel III
Luigi Cadorna
Armando Diaz
Woodrow Wilson
John Pershing
Franz Joseph I
Conrad von Hötzendorf
Wilhelm II
Erich von Falkenhayn
Paul von Hindenburg
Reinhard Scheer
Erich Ludendorff
Mehmed V
İsmail Enver
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Ferdinand I
Casualties
Military dead:
5,520,000
Military wounded: 12,831,000
Military missing: 4,121,000[1]
Military dead:
4,386,000
Military wounded: 8,388,000
Military missing: 3,629,000[1]
Theatres of World War I
European (Balkans – Western Front – Eastern Front – Italian Front) – Middle Eastern (Caucasus – Mesopotamia – Sinai and Palestine – Gallipoli – Aden – Persia) – African (South-West Africa – West Africa – East Africa) – Asian and Pacific (German Samoa and New Guinea – Tsingtao) – Other (Atlantic Ocean – Mediterranean – Naval – Aerial)

World War I, also known as WWI (abbreviation), the First World War, the Great War, and "The War to End All Wars," was a global military conflict that took place mostly in Europe between 1914 and 1918. It left millions dead and shaped the modern world.

The Allied Powers, led by France, Russia, the British Empire, and later, Italy and the United States, defeated the Central Powers, led by Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire.

Much of the fighting in World War I took place along the Western Front, within a system of opposing manned trenches and fortifications (separated by an unoccupied space between the trenches called "no man's land") running from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland. On the Eastern Front, the vast eastern plains and limited rail network prevented a trench warfare stalemate from developing, although the scale of the conflict was just as large. Hostilities also occurred on and under the sea and — for the first time — from the air. More than nine million soldiers died on the various battlefields, and millions of civilians perished.

The war caused the disintegration of four empires: the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, and Russian. Germany lost its overseas empire, and new states such as Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Yugoslavia were created, and in the cases of Lithuania and Poland, recreated.

World War I created a decisive break with the old world order that had emerged after the Napoleonic Wars, which was modified by the mid-19th century’s nationalistic revolutions. The outcomes of World War I would be important factors in the development of World War II 21 years later.
Contents
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* 1 Causes
o 1.1 Arms races
o 1.2 Plans, distrust and mobilization
o 1.3 Militarism and autocracy
o 1.4 Economic imperialism
o 1.5 Trade barriers
o 1.6 Ethnic and political rivalries, both old and new
o 1.7 Contemporary justifications, politico-moral
* 2 July crisis and declarations of war
* 3 Opening hostilities
o 3.1 Confusion among the Central Powers
o 3.2 African campaigns
o 3.3 Serbian campaign
o 3.4 German forces in Belgium and France
o 3.5 Asia and the Pacific
* 4 Early stages
o 4.1 Trench warfare begins
* 5 Naval War
* 6 Southern theatres
o 6.1 Ottoman Empire
o 6.2 Italian participation
o 6.3 War in the Balkans
* 7 Eastern Front
o 7.1 Initial actions
o 7.2 Russian Revolution
* 8 1917–18
o 8.1 Entry of the United States
o 8.2 German Spring Offensive of 1918
o 8.3 Allied victory: summer and autumn 1918
* 9 End of war
* 10 Prisoners of war
* 11 War crimes
o 11.1 Armenian Genocide
o 11.2 Rape of Belgium
* 12 Economics and manpower issues
* 13 Technology
* 14 Opposition to the war
* 15 Aftermath
o 15.1 Peace Treaties
o 15.2 New national identities
o 15.3 Social trauma
* 16 Other names
* 17 Footnotes
* 18 Basic bibliography
* 19 Movies, novels, poetry, etc.
o 19.1 Poetry and songs
o 19.2 Books and novels
o 19.3 Films, plays, television series and mini-series
* 20 See also
o 20.1 Media
* 21 External links

Causes

Main article: Causes of World War I

On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student, shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie Chotek, in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, which had been annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908. Princip was a member of Young Bosnia, a group whose aims included the unification of the South Slavs and independence from Austria-Hungary (see also: the Black Hand). The assassination in Sarajevo set into motion a series of fast-moving events that escalated into a full-scale war. Austria-Hungary demanded certain actions by Serbia to punish those responsible for the assassination. When Austria-Hungary deemed that Serbia had failed to fully comply, Austria-Hungary declared war, which, due to the complex interlocking nature of international alliances at that time, caused many major European powers to be at war with each other within a matter of weeks. However, the conflict also had deeper causes which were multiple and complex.

Arms races

The naval race that developed between Britain and Germany was intensified by Britain's 1906 launch of HMS Dreadnought, a revolutionary warship that rendered all previous battleships obsolete. (Britain maintained a large lead over Germany in all categories of warship.) Paul Kennedy has pointed out that both nations believed in Alfred Thayer Mahan's thesis that command of the sea was vital to a great nation.

David Stevenson described the armaments race as "a self-reinforcing cycle of heightened military preparedness", while David Herrman viewed the shipbuilding rivalry as part of a general movement towards war. However, Niall Ferguson argues that Britain’s ability to maintain an overall advantage signifies that change within this realm was insignificant and therefore not a factor in the movement towards war.

Answer 8

B

Answer 9

B.