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* Germany failed to achieve a knock-out blow against France in August-September 1914. * Both sides extended the front, so that it ran from the Channel to the Swiss border. * Both sides were very evenly matched. * The fighting developed - to a large extent - to one between the manpower and, even more, the industrial capacity of Britain and France on the one hand, and Germany on the other. * Lousy generals on both sides ... They lacked imagination and kept on adding more and more of the same. (More men, more artillery and more machineguns. * The general failed to think of anything new. * In the end one of the key factors in achieving a breakthrough was the intelligent use of tanks (August 1918). When the British generals finally used massed tanks (instead of scattering them across the whole front), they achieved a major victory - and Ludendorff had his 'nineteenth nervous breakdown'.
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Why did stalemate develop on the western front?
The first large battle of the US Civil War was fought
How did technological innovations lead to the trench stalemate on the western front?
The technological innovations led to the trench stalemate on the western front in various ways. Each army developed entrenchments which they intended to use in the war and this is what propagated the Trench Warfare.
A stalemate developed in the trenches on the western front because?
neither side could decisively beat the other
A stalemate developed along the western front early in the was because?
The German Army fought with outdated weapons.
What weapon of world war 1 was most responsible for a 4 year stalemate on the western front?
the germans had alien technology
