changing attitudes of the allies
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Updated: 1 Nov 2017
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Enthusiasm at outbreak was high
-only a minority opposed the warCombatting German aggression
- Christmas truce + Barbarism
- 'August Madness'
(400,000 men enlist)Reality of war set in to the troops began to
realise it did not fit with ideas of glory
-> monotony + terror of trench warfareReality of attrition warfare + shell shockBattle of Verdun
- Lost French morale due
to huge casualties 'mincer'Battle of the Somme
- Casualties/futilityStarted to question who the real enemy was
- Poets like Sassoon Memoirs, Graves + CoppardImproved food supplies500 French soldiers received the death penalty/ 50 killed
- failure to obey military ordersDisillusionment with war after horrific conditions
- High casualties in Passchendaele
Nivelle Offensive
- large scale French casualties leading to widespread mutinies followin
g all around low moraleExhausted, stress + depression
-> war wearinessGerman Spring Offensive
- Allies are pushed back towards ParisCambrai
- broke the Hindenburg Line
- US Entry in April
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