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First Battle of Ypres
During the "Race to the Sea".
Ypres Salient, a region that over the course of the next several years would see some of the war’s bitterest and most brutal struggles. -
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World War 1 Timespan
World War 1, aka the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted for 4 years. -
Battle of Mulhouse
This was an attack by France on Germant so that they could regain their control on Alsace . This would help them claim more land for their plans up north. -
Battle of Haelen
Germany calvary attacked Belgium soldiers that were defending the bridge in order to get the Belgium man to withdraw, but Germany ends up losing. -
Battle of Lorraine
France wants to regain their land that Germany then had with planned war efforts. -
Battle of Ardennes
This was the starting battle between Germany and France that was the eventual cause of declaring war. -
Battle of Charleroi
German armies were sent to go through Belgium into Paris and the French armies were to invade Alsace-Loraine. Somewhere along the Eastern France border the countries' armies ran not each other and a battle broke out. This is one of the most important battles -
Battle of Marne
This battle was between the French and Germans, where the Germans utilized the Schlieffen plan to invade France through Belgium. France (with the Allies help) won and the battle resulted in a stalemate on the Western front. -
Dardanelles
During the war, this naval campaign took place against the Ottomans in the Dardanelles, near Northwestern Turkey. The attack was led by the British and French in hopes of taking control of the vital strait separating Europe from Asia. It was considered a large failure for the Allied forces and this combined with Gallipoli resulted in many casualties on both sides -
Second Battle of Ypres
First mass use of poison gas by the German army -
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Gallipoli
An unsuccessful attempt by the Allied Powers to control the sea route from Europe to Russia during World War 1. -
Battle of Verdun
This battle between France and Germany was one of the longest and bloodiest with almost 800,000 total casualties. -
Battle of Somme
The German army was exhausted by the end of 1916, with loss of morale and the cumulative effects of attrition and frequent defeats causing it to collapse in 1918, a process which began on the Somme, echoing Churchill that the German soldiery was never the same again. -
Cambrai
The World War I Battle of Cambrai marked the first large-scale use of tanks for a military offensive. Even though the British tanks and infantry overwhelmed German defenses on the first day, the cavalry exploitation was slow to develop. On Nov. 30, the Germans counterattacked and regained most of the ground lost. Officially it finished by Dec. 7, the battle decisively demonstrated the power of tanks and altered the course of future warfare. -
Battle of Passchendaele
British did not capture coastal ports but captured Passchendaele. German morale goes down. -
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Vimy Ridge
Fought in France, the main combatants of this battle were Canada, in aid of the UK, and Germany. Four divisions of the Canadian Corps faced three divisions of the German Sixth Army in this opening phase of the Battle of Arras, led by the British. The objective was to take control of the German-held high ground along the northernmost end of the Arras Offensive, and by the first day, Canada had captured most of the ridge. -
Battle of the Lys
German army quickly regained almost of the ground area lost during the Battle of Passchendaele. -
Fifth Battle of Ypres
Strategy which became known as the Grand Offensive in which attacks were made on the German lines over as wide a front as possible.
