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699652763Defense in Depth-Deep amount of trenches and supporting trenches -Traverses: breaks in the trench to prevent artillery damage -Salient: a bulge in the line - to break an enemy you locate a salient and envelop it
699652769France going into 1915-Germans know your every move -Limited supply -Germans control 70% of steel, 80% of iron ore
699652778Russia going into 1915-Czar leaves Russia to command troops on the Eastern front
699652790Germany going into 1915-Breakthrough in Russia -Alot more yet to do
699652795Britain going into 1915-Crushed by the Germans in every engagement so far
699652808Gallipoli Campaign-Brits want and open route to the Black Sea and Russia -Land in Gallipoli -Make little headway, 250,000 casualties
699652819Enver Pasha"Young Turks" 1908 -Revolution in Ottoman Empire overthrows gov. leave sultan though -Enver becomes PM -Makes alliance with AH/Germany
699652829Count Shigenobu Okuma-PM of Japan -Is convinced to declare war on Germany
699652833Japan's Reasons for entering the war1. Control shipping routes, appease GB 2. Please the Entente as a whole 3. Take over German colonies
699652843Kato Takaaki-Okuma's minister -Concerned about potential military control of Japan -Wants to prove that civilian leadership can be successful
699652853Field Marshal Yamagatu Aritomo-Wants a military run government -Thinks their is a race war building between the Asiatic people and Europe

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