Western Front or West Front may refer to:

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Western Front (World War I) The Western Front was one of the main theatres of war during the First World War. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of impor ...

, a military frontier to the west of Germany *

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, Netherlands, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. The Italian campaign (World W ...

, a military frontier to the west of Germany *

Western Front (Russian Empire) The Western Front (russian: Западный фронт) 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 We ...

, a major unit of the Imperial Russian Army during World War I *

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 February 12, 1919 and April 8, 1924. The Western Front was first established on the basis of the administration of the disba ...

, a Red Army group during the Russian Civil War and the Polish-Soviet War *

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 M ...

, an army group of the Soviet Union *

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) The Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, ota, گرب جابهاسی, Garb Cebhesi) in Turkey, and the Asia Minor Campaign ( el, Μικρασιατική Εκστρατεία, Mikrasiatikí Ekstrateía) or the Asia Minor Catastrophe ( el, Μικ ...

, known in Turkey as the Western Front of the

Turkish War of Independence The Turkish War of Independence "War of Liberation", also known figuratively as ''İstiklâl Harbi'' "Independence War" or ''Millî Mücadele'' "National Struggle" (19 May 1919 – 24 July 1923) was a series of military campaigns waged by th ...

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 marke ...

, in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

Art, entertainment and media

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''. ...

, a 1998 video game * ''Western Front'' (album), a 2006 album by Carbon/Silicon *

Western Front (band) Western Front was an American band formed in 1985 in Portland, Oregon that consisted of Fred Cole on vocals and guitar, Kevin Conner on bass, and Jeff Evans on drums. Cole had been in the garage rock band The Lollipop Shoppe and the punk rock ...

, an American band active from 1985 to 1986 * ''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. The northernmost university in the contiguous United States, WWU was founded in 1893 as the state-funded New Whatcom Normal School, succeeding a pri ...

* ''The Western Front'' (TV series), an Australian sports program broadcast from 2002 to 2011 *''

Joel Feeney and the Western Front ''Joel Feeney and the Western Front'' is the debut studio album by Canadian country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920 ...

'', a 1991 album * ''The Western Front'' (film), a 2010 American documentary film

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*, a cargo ship that saw service as a naval auxiliary in World War I *

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 serve ...

, a UK-based charity *

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, Mi ...

, an artist-run centre in Vancouver, Canada

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