The first shots of World War One are fired in Africa ... the Western Front at the Somme. He thinks an artillery bombardment will silence the German guns and allow his infantry to break through.

German general Erich Ludendorff thought he could win World War I with one final blow ... Germany had refined new rolling artillery barrages. Its dreaded “Stormtroopers” had mastered dispersed ...

Learn more about some of the causes of World War One with this activity ... The plan failed, because: The Belgian army managed to slow the German advance, giving the French time to move their ...