What are the similarities with the western front and eastern front in world war i?
The Western Front was more brutal, and cost lives of many more soldiers than the eastern theater of war. The western front was shorter and existed through the entire war. It moved forward and back only with small modification and neither party achieved significant territorial gains after initial German attack. This front line was the most brutal example of trench warfare. The eastern front was much longer and between 1914-1916 stretched from Baltic Sea to Carpathian Mountains and often shifted significantly east and west. The trench warfare occurred predominantly in Austrian territory around city of Lviv. Russians were able to penetrate deeply into central Poland and even threatened German Silesia and Austrian-Hungarian Pannonian plains by crossing Carpathian ranges. After entering Romania along side with Russia, this front line became the longest stretching from Baltic Sea all the way to Black sea. However, Russia was unable to resist the war as France that had backing UK and later US
