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Write a few sentences about these terms and how they are associated with WW1. 1. YPRES 2. SCHLIEFFEN PLAN 3. TANNENBERG 4. BALKANS 5. BELGIUM 6. JUTLAND 7. TRENCH
1. Ypres is a Belgian municipality located in the Flemish province of West Flanders. Though Ieper is the Dutch and only official name, the city's French name Ypres is most commonly used in English due to its role in World War I when only French was in official use in Belgian documents, including on maps.
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2. The Schlieffen Plan was the German General Staff's early-20th-century overall strategic plan for victory in a possible future war in which the German Empire might find itself fighting on two fronts: France to the west and Russia to the east.
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The Battle of Tannenberg was an engagement between the Russian and the German Empires in the first days of World War I. It was fought by the Russian Second Army against the German Eighth Army between 23 August and 30 August 1914.The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army, as well as the death of its commander Alexander Samsonov.
The Balkan Peninsula, popularly referred to as the Balkans, is a geographical and cultural region of Southeast Europe. The region has its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch from the east of Bulgaria to the very east of Serbia.
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal monarchy in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters as well as those of several other major international organisations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of 30,528 square kilometres (11,787 sq mi), and it has a population of about 11 million people.
Jutland, historically also called Cimbria, is the name of the peninsula that juts out in Northern Europe toward the rest of Scandinavia, forming the mainland part of Denmark.
A trench is a type of excavation or depression in the ground that is generally deeper than it is wide, and narrow compared to its length. In geology, trenches are created as a result of erosion by rivers or by geological movement of tectonic plates.
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