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Why did “trench warfare" happen on the Western Front in WWI? *

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Trench warfare took shape on the Western Front in late 1914. It emerged as both armies dug in to prevent flanking attacks from the other. By late 1916, the Western Front contained more than 1,000 kilometres of frontline and reserve trenches.

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