A-Z: General definitions
- W B Yeats
- Wages
- Wall Street Crash
- Wallis Simpson
- Walsingham
- Walter Hilton
- Walter Map
- Walter Raleigh
- Wandering Jew
- Wanderings
- War in Heaven
- War to End All Wars
- Wash
- Washing of the disciples' feet
- Water
- Waterloo
- Watershed
- Way
- Weaker Vessel
- Wedding
- Weed
- Weeping, wailing, gnashing
- Welfare state
- Well-made play
- Weltpolitik
- Wesleyanism
- West Bank
- Western Front
- Westminster
- Wheat
- Where two or three are gathered
- Whirlwind
- Whit Sunday
- Whited Sepulchre
- Whitsun
- Whizz-bang
- Whole Duty of Man
- Whore of Babylon
- Widow
- Wilderness
- Wilfred Owen
- Wilhelm II
- Wilkie Collins
- Will of God
- William Blake
- William Godwin
A-Z: General definitions: Western Front
Definition
The line of fighting in western Europe in World War I. The German army fought the armies to its west, i.e. France, the United Kingdom (and its dominions), and, from 1917, the United States. For most of the war the front line stretched from the Vosges Mountains in eastern France, through Amiens, to Ostend on the coast of Belgium. It comprised 440 miles of trenches, dug-outs and barbed wire fences which stretched from the North Sea to Switzerland.
World War I, also know as the First World War and the Great War, was a global conflict from 1914 – 1918, centred in Europe, involving all the world’s major economic powers in two opposing alliances.
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