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Battle Of Tannenberg
What led to the war: to break the force of the Russian invasion, not to surround a Russian army.
Casualties: The Russians lost 30,000 killed or wounded, while the Germans sustained a total of only 13,000 casualties.
Who won: The Germans
What the consequences were: a devastating defeat for the Russian army, with the near annihilation of half of the Russian Second Army. -
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First Battle of the Marne
A French offensive in Lorraine prompted German counter-attacks that threw the French back onto a fortified barrier. 250,000 French casualties, 12,733 British casualties and 298,000 casualties. The Germans. Saved the capital city of Paris from Capture. -
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Battle of Gallipoli
The warships were unable to force a way through the straits known as the Dardanelles. With an estimated 27,000 French, and 115,000 British and dominion troops (Great Britain and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Newfoundland) killed or wounded. Ottoman Empire. Allies suffered over 220,000 casualties out of a force of nearly 500,000. The Turks suffered almost as many casualties, but their victory at Gallipoli rejuvenated the Ottoman war effort. -
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Second Battle of Ypres
Allied forces fought the German advance to the Belgian coast to a standstill. 69,000 Allied troops(59,000 British, 10,000 French), against 35,000 German. The Allies. Casualties among British Empire forces numbered in excess of 55,000. -
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Brusilov Offensive
aimed to take some of the pressure off French and British armies in France and the Royal Italian Army along the Isonzo Front and, if possible, to knock Austria-Hungary out of the war.The Russians suffered at least 500,000 killed, wounded, or captured. Some sources put Russian losses as high as one million men. The Russian Empire, relieved German pressure on French forces at Verdun, and helped to relieve the Austro-Hungarian pressure on the Italians. -
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Battle of Verdun
Its position on the Allied line and its sentimental value to the French people. French casualties amounted to about 400,000, German ones to about 350,000. Some 300,000 were killed. France, the France repulsed a major German offensive. -
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Battle of Jutland
The German High Seas Fleet hoped to weaken the Royal Navy by launching an ambush on British in the North Sea, The German dead amounted to 2,551, but the British losses were 6,097, Britain, confirmed British naval dominance and secured its control of shipping lanes -
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Battle of the Somme
The British wanted to attack Belgium. The British Empire had suffered 420,000 casualties and the French 200,000 in the process. German losses were at least 450,000 killed and wounded. The Allies, A more professional and effective army emerged from the battle. -
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Battle of Passchendaele
capture the high ground surrounding Ypres, including the Passchendaele ridge,through a series of smaller battles, Britain lost an estimated 275,000 casualties at Passchendaele to German's 220,000, Canadian, the landscape and village of Passchendaele were completely destroyed. -
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Battle of Caporetto
the weakness of the Italian defence, the Italian army suffered around 11,000 dead, 29,000 wounded, and approximately 300,000 prisoners, while the combined Austro-German forces sustained roughly 50,000 casualties between killed and wounded, The Austro-Germans, more than 600,000 war-weary Italian soldiers either deserted or surrendered. -
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Battle of Cambrai
an idea initially put forward by Lt-Col JFC Fuller, GSO1 of the Tank Corps, 45,000 British killed, wounded or missing against 41,000 Germans, The Allies, little strategic impact on the fighting on the Western Front. -
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Spring Offensive
tactical expediency,the British lost 236, 000 men and the French 92, 000, amounting to an Allied total of about 328, 000. Estimated German losses were 348, 000, The Allies, the German army fatally weakened, demoralized and facing its own imminent and inevitable defeat through an Allied counteroffensive. -
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Second Battle of the Marne
The German army planned the Marne attack in order to draw French troops away from an area called Flanders (in Belgium),Germans over 168,000 casualties, but Allied casualties were equally high - 13,000 British and dominion, 12,000 American and 95,000 French, The Allies, France and its allies gained the advantage on the Western Front. -
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Battle of Belleau Wood
the German Army launched a series of attacks on the Western Front, hoping to defeat the Allies before U.S. forces could be fully deployed,American, 9,777 casualties (1,811 killed); German, 9,500 casualties, including 1,600 captured, The Allies,capture and subjugation of not only France but three other countries – Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium. -
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Hundred Days Offensive
the Allies rallied and drove back the Germans,The Allies suffered close to 1,070,000 casualties, and the Germans lost 1,172,075, The allies, the defeat of the German Army.