The Western Front, which was opened by the ____ invasion of Belgium and the Battle of the Frontiers, began with the Imperial German Army executing the ____, invading ____ through neutral Belgium and pushing onto Paris. Western Front: 4 August 1914 to 11 November ____ Following the Race to the Sea in September-October ____, the front lines stagnated along ____ lines dug by both the Allied and Central Powers. Several offensives occurred along the front from ____ to 1917. The ____ was defined by a deadlock of trench warfare defined by massive ____ bombardments, massed ____ advances, heavy losses inflicted by entrenchments, machine gun emplacements, barbed wire, and artillery, and the employment of new military technology such as poison ____, aircraft, and tanks. The trench warfare of 1915-1918 was a war of ____ which saw several costly offensives such as the 1916 Battle of Verdun (with a combined 700,000 losses for both sides), the 1916 Battle of the ____ (with over 1 million casualties for both sides), and the 1917 Battle of ____ (with 487,000 losses).

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