ocr: WORLD WARI EUROPEAN FRONTS SCENE OFCONFLICT OVERVIEW MESTET RN FRONT BUROPEAN FRONTS EASTERN FRONT EXPANDING CONFLICT BLOODY STALEMATE KEY PLAYERS Tanks, the new iron monsters of the battlefield 2: - THE SOMME The greatestlosses on the Western Front occurred at OTTOMAN EMPIRE the Battle of the Somme. On the first AFTERMATH day of the battle, July 40,000 1, 1916, the By British suffered mid-November, 20,000 650,000 deaths and Germans, over 2) casualties. 420,000 British, and 195,000 French had lost their lives. WASS SLAUGHTER CHRONOLOGY .NEWSFLASH..