In 1914 all participants in the war were going to win by a decisive offensive, no one expected that the war will take long character.
Germany sent a major force on the western front, hoping for a quick strike to defeat France and then finished with Russia. August 4, German troops invaded Belgium and Luxembourg. Before his upcoming parts of the Germans allowed the troopers under white flags and notes that the occupation of Belgium is "a temporary and forced nature, and the day before the Kaiser sent a telegram to Albert, which assured him in a" friendly feelings. This does not tally with the explanations of the Allied war criminals. As wrote the Kaiser Wilhelm, "if we needed a war, we would probably have attacked to or in 1898, when Britain was at war with the Boers, or in 1905, when Russia was paralyzed by riots, or in 1908, when France was not so strong ".13 August after Heavy fighting was occupied by a fortress of Liege. August 20 was a busy Brussels, August 24 take the fortress of Namur.
14-24 August the borderline battle on the French border in the Ardennes, as well as in Charleroi and the Battle of Mons Monsa.V British lost only 1500 men against the 5,000 German soldiers. Perfected British tactics (later the Germans will think of "invisible hands and gunners) said that they were ready. Finally overcome the "feeling of clothes" (when coming can not attack is not any other way as a shoulder to shoulder), the Germans succeeded only after the first battle at Ypres. Almost all of the 1914 hostilities the Germans were way formulaic line tactics, which originated at the beginning of the Seven Years' War. Perhaps Germany lucky, only one - that industry and engineering thought Germany was ready for a protracted war (F. Haber invented a production of ammonia from the air in 1909, and not whether this, without the Chilean nitrate, the war would have ended in the spring of 1915). However, under the pressure of quantitative Germans, French and British troops were retreating, and in the boundary Battle failed. The Germans continued their invasion of France, coming to a distance of 50 kilometers of Paris.
In September 1914 there was a first Battle of the Marne, in which the French managed to reverse the course of hostilities and to reject the German troops at the front from Verdun to Amiens at 50-100 kilometers ago aided by transfers of a few German shells from the western front in East Prussia back against the invading Russian armies. After this there was a so-called race to the sea - the establishment of the front line to Cevernogo Sea.
On the eastern front, there were two major battles: East-Prussian operation in 1914 and Galician battle. "Weak" the Russian army managed to inflict a number of Germans are sensitive lesions in a series of battles for Stallupenenom, Gumbinnenom, Goldapom, not to mention the complete defeat in the Galician battle of the only ally of Germany - Austria-Hungary.
However, due to large losses and the German counter-standing East-Prussian operation a success for Russia was not crowned. Russian departed for Lodz, the river Ravke, the battle began on Dec. 5 on four rivers all along the line of the Eastern Front in Poland (on the rivers Bzura, Ravke, Pilica and Nida).
On the Serbian front, things were going for the Austrians failed. Despite the large numerical superiority they were able to take who was on the boundary of Belgrade just 2 December, but on December 15 the Serbs recaptured Belgrade and drove the Austrians from their territory.
campaign in 1914 on the Western Front finalization of the strategic defeat of German forces. The Germans failed to implement the Schlieffen Plan, they failed to defeat France in a brief battle. Thus, the Allies have the time and opportunity to mobilize human and material resources, surpassed the German-Austrian .
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