Main Battles Of WW1

1. World War 1 Battles
Cedar Robertson
1/30/12
Ching
Period 5

2. The Battle of Tannenberg
This battle was fought between the Germany and Russia.
This battle took place in Tannenberg on August 23
through August 30, 1914.
The Russians had more soldiers than the Germans.
This battle was one of the first battles to occur during
World W 1.
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3. The Battle of Tannenberg
(Continued)
For a while, Russia had the upper hand.
Russia did not know that they were
fa#ing into the Germans trap of
“encirclement”.
This battle was eventua#y won by
Germany and proved to be Germans
greatest victory during the First World
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4. The Battle of Verdun
This battle was between France and the German
Empire.
The Battle of Verdun took place in Verdun, France.
The battle lasted $om February 21 through December
18, 1916.
Verdun, France was a place in good location for
strategy. It was important that France did not give
this up to Germany.

5. The Battle of Verdun
(Continued)
When Germany went on the offensive to try to take Verdun,
Germany first fired many rounds of heavy arti#ery. They
then went on to try to clear the French trenches.
Germany was beginning to advance, but France came back
with a counterattack.
France had eventua#y driven back Germany and won the
battle to save Verdun.

6. The Battle of Somme
This battle took place along the Somme
River in France.
This battle lasted $om July 1 through
November 18 1916.
The battle of Somme was: France and
Great Britain v.s. Germany.
This battle was fought using tactics such
as Trench W arfare.

7. The Battle of Somme
(Continued)
The A#ies objectives were to cut Germany of reserves during
the battle, and possibly take gain some territory over Germany.
France and Great Britain thought that France would be the
main offensive during this war.
Germany took the first offensive on France and GB.
France and GB fina#y pushed Germany off and won the Battle
of Somme.

8. The First Battle of the
Marne
The First Battle of the Marne took
place along the Marne River near
Paris, France.
This battle lasted $om September 5
through September 12, 1914.
The First Battle of the Marne was:
France and Great Britain v.s.
Germany.

9. The First Battle of the
Marne (Continued)
It was important for the A#ies to win this battle because
they couldn’t risk losing Paris to Germany.
France was preparing for the fa# of its capital.
Later, France and Great Britain struck with a
counterattack.
France and GB were able to win this battle and push
back Germany.

10. Gallipoli Campaign
The Ga#ipoli Campaign took place in
the Ga#ipoli peninsula.
This battle lasted $om April 25, 1915
through January 9, 1916.
This battle was fought between: France
and Great Britain V.S. Ottoman
Empire. (Modern Day Turkey)

11. Gallipoli Campaign
(Continued)
Winston Churchi# was the man who lead the Ga#ipoli
Campaign.
This campaign was made to gain control of the Straits of the
western Ottoman Empire. The Straits would prove very
beneficial to the Entente Powers because of its strategic setting.
This battle was eventua#y won by the Ottoman Empire with
hundreds of thousands of casualties..

12. The Stalemate
The Stalemate, during war in this case,
is when neither side can make a move
to advance without being gunned
down.
The Stalemate was the result of battle
tactics known as Trench Warfare.
Trench warfare was fought along
along the Western Front.

13. The Stalemate
(Continued)
The Stalemate made this part of the war very long.
Both sides had heavy arti#ery waiting for the opposing side to
make a move so they could be ki#ed. In other words, both sides
were on the defensive.
Because both teams were being on defensive, nobody could
advance. This made battles last much longer than they needed
too.
This also brought more diseases such as trench foot.

14. The Christmas Truce
The Christmas Truce was probably the
only thing good that came out of Trench
W arfare.
This truce started on Christmas Eve of
1914 on the Western Front.
A# you had to do was sit in the trench and
keep watch when it was your turn.

15. The Christmas Truce
(Continued)
This truce began when people, both enemies and $iends,
started singing Christmas carols.
Soon enough there were requests to seize fire. Then both
sides joined together in the center of the trenches. They
did this a# through Christmas.
They a# knew this could not last long, so they eventua#y
went back to their tranches and began fighting again.

16. Bibliography
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