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Battle of Tannenberg
This battle was a spectacular German victory. Also this was the destruction of the Russian 2nd army in August 1914. It also ended Russia's invasion of East Prussia. The leader of this battle was Paul Von Hindenburg. -
The First Battle of the Marne
The commander of the fifth army was General Franchet d'Esperey. On September 8, the aggressive French commander General Franchet d'Esperey's Fifth Army launched a surprise attack against the German Second Army. The First Battle of the Marne ended September 10. -
First Battle of Ypres
The commander of this war was Field Marshall Sir John French.The Allied position was shaped like a small salient in the trench lines because it could best be defended from the low ridge of higher ground to the east. The British Expeditionary Force had a 35 mile long line in the bulge while the french were in the area. -
The Second Battle of Ypres
This battle comprised the only major attack by German forces in the western front. In this battle they started to test chlorine gases as some of thier weapons. The German army gave up on trying to make it their own town. After this battle was over the whole town was turned to rubble. -
Battle of Verdun
The attack began on February 21 at 7:15.German chief Falkenhayn's plan was to subject Verdun to intense bombardment, and diverting French troops from all over the Western Front to the eight mile wide front around Verdun. Crown Prince Wilhelm opened with 1,400 guns. -
Battle of Jutland
Greatest naval battle of WWI. The battle has brocken down to 5 main phases. The battle at Jutland was the largest and also battle of great battle ships. -
Battle of the Somme
This battle started on July 1, 1916 and ended November 18, 1916. The Battle of the Somme holds a reigninh record for most troops lost in day 1. 58,000 British troops were lost, a third of which were killed. -
Third Battle of Ypres
Third Ypres was intended as Sir Douglas Haig%u2019s Allied forces breakthrough in Flanders in 1917. The battle was opened by twelve divisions.The attack was launched on a 8 kilometer front. -
Battle of Cambrai
The attack was launched at dawn on the morning of November 20,1917, with all available tanks advancing across a 10 km front. Erich Ludendorff was the head of the German Third Supreme Command. The Germans suffered losses of approximately 50,000 and the British 45,000. -
Second Battle of the Marne
This battle began as the last major German offensive battle in the World War I and ended as a very significent allied victory. In this war the Germany army lost and many German commanders believed that they had already lost the war. This war had the last large-scale attempt of winning WWI.
