most of the fighting took place on the western front in world war i.
most of the fighting took place on the western front in world war i.
on which front did most of the fighting take place in world war i?
western front
the european theatre is divided into four main theatres of operations: the western front, the eastern front, the italian front, and the balkans front. not all of europe involved in the war. nor did fighting take place throughout all of the major combatants territory. the united kingdom was nearly untouched by the war. most of france was unaffected, as was most of germany and italy.
european theatre of world war i
while he was in germany, paul dispatched general petar pešić on a secret mission to paris and london to find out what were the anglo-french plans in the event of a war. pešić told lord gort of the imperial general staff and marshal maurice gamelin that yugoslavia would declare neutrality if germany invaded poland, but would be willing to enter the war on the allied side the moment the mediterranean and adriatic seas came under allied operational control. pešić argued that from the allied viewpoint that yugoslav neutrality could be advantageous in the sense that yugoslavia at present could not stop the wehrmacht from occupying the country if hitler so desired, which would allow the germans to exploit all of the crucial raw materials of yugoslavia whereas if yugoslavia remained neutral and entered the war when the allies could support her, then those raw materials would be permanently denied to the germans. pešić found that the french, who preferred that fighting take place in anywhere but france, were far more interested in having yugoslavia enter the conflict if the danzig crisis should lead to a war than the british. from marshal gamelin he learned the french were already planning on having the army of syria commanded by maxime weygand land at thessaloniki to march up the balkans to link up with the yugoslavs and the romanians to aid the poles. in may 1939, yugoslavia changed its diplomatic codes, which stopped both the italians and germans from reading the yugoslav codes. the same month, when the romanian foreign minister, grigore gafencu, visited belgrade, paul spoke to him of his wish for both yugoslavia and romania to have closer ties with britain. despite repeated pressure from both the german and italian ministers in belgrade, paul refused their demand that yugoslavia leave the league of nations as a symbolic move to show that yugoslavia was now associated with the axis states. as germany and japan had both left the league of nations in 1933 while italy had left the league in 1933, the axis powers always attached immense symbolic importance to having other nations leaving the league as showing diplomatic alignment with them.
prince paul of yugoslavia