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MAPS:
the Front Line of trenches crossed Nord/Pas-de-Calais, leaving the western
area [including Lille and the coal basin] behind enemy lines. Bloody battles
were fought as each side attempted to make a decisive breakthrough. |
So long as part of France was occupied,
war would continue. |
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World
War I, "the Great War," More than eight million soldiers lost their lives
in the struggle between the Central Powers -- Germany, the Austro-Hungarian
and Ottoman Empires -- and the Allies -- Britain, France, Italy, Russia
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 The
addition of America's forces to the war effort ended a bloody stalemate,
and the fighting came to an end with the Armistice of November 11, 1918.
More than 50,000 Americans lost their lives. |
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