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Battle of Tennenberg
This battle took place in what is now northeastern Poland. The participants of this war were Germany and Russia, Germany won the victory after Russia lost almost their entire army. -
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First Battle of the Marne
in the Marne River Valley of France. It was a major turning point in the war, as it stopped the German advance on Paris and marked the beginning of trench warfare. -
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Second Battle of Ypres
The Germans used the battle as a diversion to hide their movement away from the Western Front. They also wanted to test their new weapon, chlorine gas, on a large scale. -
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Battle of Verdun
The battle was one of the deadliest conflicts of World War I. It was also a combination of strategy and circumstances that prolonged the battle. -
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Battle of Gallipoli
he Battle of Gallipoli, also known as the Gallipoli Campaign, was a military operation that took place during World War I -
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Battle of Jutland
Largest naval battle of the First World War. It was the only time that the British and German fleets of 'dreadnought' battleships actually came to blows. -
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Battle of the Somme
The British and French armies fought against the German Empire on both sides of the upper Somme River in France. The battle was one of the largest and bloodiest of the war. -
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Brusilov Offensive
The largest Russian assault during World War I and one of the deadliest in history. At last the Russians had a capable commander, General Aleksey Brusilov, and in this offensive he inflicted a defeat on Austro-Hungarian forces from which their empire never recovered. -
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Battle of Passchendaele
The British launched an offensive to capture a ridge near Passchendaele, but failed. The Canadian Corps joined the battle on October 26 and captured the ridge on November 6. -
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Battle of Caporetto
The Austro-German forces broke through the Italian front line, routing the Italian army. The Italians retreated 150 kilometers to the Piave River, and more than 600,000 Italian soldiers surrendered or deserted. -
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Battle of Cambrai
The Battle of Cambrai was a World War I battle that took place in northern France from November 20 to December 6, 1917. It was the first large-scale use of tanks in warfare, and also marked the first effective use of combined arms. The battle resulted in -
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Spring Offensive
The Spring Offensive, also known as the Ludendorff Offensive or Kaiserschlacht, was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during World War I -
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Second Battle of the Marne
The battle ended in a major victory for the Allies after an Allied counterattack overwhelmed the Germans on their right flank. The Germans retreated almost 10 km in the next two days, and by August 3, they were back to where they had been before the offensive began. -
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Battle of Belleau Wood
The battle was a key victory for the Allies, and it marked the first major engagement for the U.S. army in the war. It also boosted morale for the Allies during the German spring offensive. -
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Hundred Days Offensive
The Hundred Days Offensive was a series of Allied attacks that took place on the Western Front from August 8 to November 11, 1918, and led to the end of World War I