The year is 1918, and the greatest war that the world had ever seen had raged on for nearly four years. With the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the First World War would spark leading to the rise of the Allied Powers of the United Kingdom, France, Russia, Serbia, and Italy. This initiative would also lead the rise of the Central Powers, which included Germany, Austria-Hungry, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. As the war continued to spread across Europe, the front would begin to form. Forming in 1914 the Western Front would take shape France with a vast connection of trenches, which would create a stalemate between the two warring sides. In 1917, the United States entered the war after a German U-Boat sunk a passenger ship, the Lusitania, which was carrying American citizens and the sending of the Zimmerman Telegraph to Mexico as an attempt to bring the country to the side of the Central Powers. With the Russians withdraw from the war due to a political revolution in 1917, the Allies would face a reinforced German army that had pulled many of its troops off the now secured Eastern Front of the war.[1] With the British and French army exhausted after nearly four years of war, the two countries would greatly look forward to the American entrance into the war and the fresh troops that they would bring to the front lines of war-torn Europe.
[1] Edward G. Lengel, A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign (Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley &Sons, 2014), 7.
[1] Edward G. Lengel, A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign (Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley &Sons, 2014), 7.