HIST 387 Lecture : 387 - Week 8 – Lecture 1 - Crises .docx
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Eastern front supreme commander east was appointed = hindenburg = oberest until 1916. Western front supreme commander overall as well = falkenhayn (after moltke yr) = this gradually slipped from his control in. Hindenburg: hindenburg commanding and ludendorff being chief of the general staff. Tried again to force a decision in the west and threw everything at the 1st battle of yypres in flanders 30th october 11th. Front stretched from the alps to the north sea = such a long extended front was quite the phenomenon in history. Falkenhayn considered the war lost from here onwards and he told the german chancellor that a german victory was no longer possible, although of course he fought in. July 1914 since it was unsure if russia would enter the war or not. Conrad ordered forces into position for an attack on serbia which he actually needed against russia if he had assumed they would enter the war.
