France (And Their French Fries) in The Great War

When France went to war in August 1914, the French people almost without hesitation, ran to defend their country, like robots. They pushed aside all the differences between their political system and came together to fight. The Germans took a part in this war by German armies marching across Belgium and into northern France. Shortly they advanced deep into France territory. During the next four years military operations on the Western Front were fighting hard to break through the enemies battle lines and “resume a war of movement.” The defense, the Germans, had very heavy ammunition. Towards the year ending of1914 France had lost 300,000 souls and another 600,000 wounded, captured, or missing.

“After the bloody failure of the spring offensive in 1917, some French units refused to move into front-line positions, and the disobedience spread to more than half the French divisions.” Everyone, like the politicians that deal with security, wanted peace throughout the entire country. But France decided to continue the war. “In July 1918 a unified Allied command, the entry of large numbers of American troops into combat, and the attrition of the German war machine enabled the Allies to mount an offensive that forced the German government to ask for peace.

On Nov. 11, 1918, the newly established German Republic accepted an armistice and on June 28, 1919, signed for a formal peace treaty.” The Germans wanted to pay for any damages, in the French civilian property, that they were apart in. “France was the great Continental victor in the war, but at a staggering cost.”