Western Front or West Front may refer to:
Military frontiers
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Western Front (World War I)
The Western Front was one of the main Theatre (warfare), theatres of war during World War I. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the Imperial German Army, German Army opened the Western Front by German invasion of Belgium (1914), invad ...
, a military frontier to the west of Germany
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Western Front (World War II)
The Western Front was a European theatre of World War II, military theatre of World War II encompassing Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, French Third Republic, France, and Nazi Germany, Germany. The I ...
, a military frontier to the west of Germany
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Western Front (Russian Empire)
The Western Front () was an army group in the armed forces of the Russian Empire during the First World War. It was established in August 1915 when the Northwestern Front was split into the Northern Front and Western Front, and was disbanded in ...
, a major unit of the Imperial Russian Army during World War I
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Western Front (RSFSR)
The Western Front () was a front of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and Polish–Soviet War, which existed between 12 February 1919 and 8 April 1924. The Western Front was first established on the basis of the administration of the disb ...
, a Red Army group during the Russian Civil War and the Polish-Soviet War
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Western Front (Soviet Union)
The Western Front was a front of the Red Army, one of the Red Army Fronts during World War II.
The Western Front was created on 22 June 1941 from the Western Special Military District (which before July 1940 was known as Belorussian Special ...
, an army group of the Soviet Union
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Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)
The Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922 was fought between Greece and the Turkish National Movement during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, between 15 May 1919 and 14 October 1922. This conflict was a par ...
, known in Turkey as the Western Front of the
Turkish War of Independence
, strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...
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Operation Chengiz Khan
Operation Chengiz Khan was the code name assigned to the preemptive strikes carried out by the Pakistani Air Force (PAF) on the forward airbases and radar installations of the Indian Air Force (IAF) on the evening of 3 December 1971, and mark ...
, in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Art, entertainment and media
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West Front (video game)
''West Front'' is a 1998 computer wargame developed and published by TalonSoft. It is the sequel to '' East Front'' and the second game in the ''Campaign'' series.
In 1999, ''West Front'' was followed by '' East Front II: The Russian Front''.
G ...
, a 1998 video game
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''Western Front'' (album), a 2006 album by Carbon/Silicon
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Western Front (band)
Frederick Lee Cole (August 28, 1948 – November 9, 2017) was an American rock singer and guitarist who played with several bands from the 1960s until his death, most notably The Lollipop Shoppe, Dead Moon, and Pierced Arrows. He was associ ...
, an American band active from 1985 to 1986
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''The Western Front'' (book), a 2000 book by Richard Holmes about the First World War
*''The Western Front'', a newspaper of
Western Washington University
Western Washington University (WWU or Western) is a public university in Bellingham, Washington, United States. The northernmost university in the contiguous United States, WWU was founded in 1893 as the state-funded New Whatcom Normal School, s ...
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''The Western Front'' (TV series), an Australian sports program broadcast from 2002 to 2011
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Joel Feeney and the Western Front
Joel Richard Stephan Feeney (born November 21, 1957) is a Canadian country, pop music singer, songwriter and record producer.
History
Joel Feeney commenced his recording career with the pop rock band The Front. Feeney was also a producer on albu ...
'', a 1991 album
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''The Western Front'' (film), a 2010 American documentary film
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The Great War: Western Front'', a 2023 video game
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''West Front'' (wargame), a 1985 WWII board wargame
Other uses
*, a cargo ship that saw service as a naval auxiliary in World War I
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Western Front Association
The Western Front Association (WFA) was inaugurated on 11 November 1980, in order to further interest in the Great War of 1914–1918. The WFA aims to perpetuate the memory, courage and comradeship of all those who fought on all sides and who s ...
, a UK-based charity
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Western Front Society
Western Front (Western Front Society) is an artist-run centre located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 1973 by eight artists (Martin Bartlett, Mo van Nostrand, Kate Craig, Henry Greenhow, Glenn Lewis, Eric Metcalfe, M ...
, an artist-run centre in Vancouver, Canada
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Westwork
A westwork (), forepart, avant-corps or avancorpo is the monumental, west-facing entrance section ("west front") of a Carolingian, Ottonian, or Romanesque church. The exterior consists of multiple stories between two towers. The interior inc ...
or "west front", the west-facing entrance section of a Carolingian, Ottonian, or Romanesque church
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