Tuesday, January 15, 2013

What was the difference between the Eastern Front and the Western Front during World War I?

The
biggest difference between the Eastern and Western Fronts duringwas that the Allied Powers
(Britain, France, United States, Italy) eventually won the war in the west, whereas in the east,
the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire) forced Russia, racked by
revolution, to surrender with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March of 1918, essentially ending
the war on the Eastern Front. In fact, the Germans hastened Russia's surrender by releasing the
exiled Bolshevik leader, Lenin, and several of his followers in April 1917. Within the year, the
Bolsheviks had seized power in Russia and taken the Russian state out of the war. In the west,
the inclusion of United States forces in 1918 brought the war to a conclusion with Germany's
surrender in November 1918.

Another significant difference was that the two
fronts were much different in size. While officially over 400 miles from the Swiss border to the
North Sea, the Western Front mostly consisted of a...

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