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World War I
World War I (abbreviated as WW-I, WWI, or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, the World War (prior to the outbreak of the Second World War), and the War to End All Wars, was a global military conflict which involved most of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing...
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Battle of Jutland
The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle of World War I (German: Skagerrakschlacht (Battle of the Skagerrak) and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. It was fought on May 31–June 1, 1916, in the North Sea near Jutland, the...
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- 1 days (May 31, 1916 — Jun 1, 1916)
Finnish Civil War
The Finnish Civil War (Finnish: Suomen sisällissota; Swedish: Finska inbördeskriget) was a part of the national and social turmoil caused by World War I (1914–1918) in Europe. The war was fought in Finland from 27 January to 15 May 1918, between the...
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- 3 months (Jan 27, 1918 — May 15, 1918)
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand....
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- 6 months (Jun 28, 1919 — Jan 21, 1920)
Battle of Passchendaele
The Battle of Passchendaele also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Third Flanders Battle (German: Dritte Flandernschlacht) and Second Battle of Flanders (French: 2ème Bataille des Flandres) was one of the major battles of the First World War. The...
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- 4 months (Jul 11, 1917 — Nov 10, 1917)
Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun (French: Bataille de Verdun) was one of the critical battles during World War I on the Western Front. It was fought between the German and French armies, from 21 February to 18 December 1916, on hilly terrain north of the city...
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- 10 months (Feb 21, 1916 — Dec 18, 1916)
Western Front
Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German army opened the Western Front by first invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France. The tide of the advance was dramatically...
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- 4 years (1914 — 1918)
Battle of Tannenberg
The Battle of Tannenberg was in August 1914 a decisive engagement between the Russian Empire and the German Empire in the first days of World War I, fought by the Russian First and Second Armies and the German Eighth Army between 23 August and 30...
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- Aug 23, 1914 —
Battle of the Somme
On the Western Front, French forces under General Joseph Joffre had born the brunt of the 1914 German offensive into Belgium and France, only managing to halt the wheeling advance well inside French territory. In support of their Allies, the British...
Duration:
- 4 months (Jul 1, 1916 — Nov 18, 1916)
Battle of Vimy Ridge
The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a military engagement fought as part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were the Canadian Corps against three divisions of the German Sixth...
Battle of Cambrai
The Battle of Cambrai (20 November - 3 December, 1917) was a British campaign of World War I. Noted for the first successful use of tanks in a combined arms operation, the British attack demonstrated that the Hindenburg Line could be penetrated,...
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- 16 days (Nov 20, 1917 — Dec 6, 1917)
Second Battle of the Marne
The Second Battle of the Marne (French: 2e Bataille de la Marne), or Battle of Reims (15 July to 6 August 1918) was the last major German Spring Offensive on the Western Front during World War I. It failed when an Allied counterattack led by French...
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- Jul 15, 1918 —
First Battle of the Marne
The Battle of the Marne (French: 1re Bataille de la Marne) (also known as the Miracle of the Marne) was a First World War battle fought between the 5th and 12th of September 1914. It resulted in a Franco-British victory against the German Army under...
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- Sep 5, 1914 —
Battle of Coronel
The World War I naval Battle of Coronel took place on 1 November 1914 off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel. German Kaiserliche Marine forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee met and defeated a Royal Navy squadron...
Date:
- Nov 1, 1914
Battle of the Falkland Islands
The Battle of the Falkland Islands was a British naval victory over the Imperial German Navy on 8 December 1914 during the First World War in the South Atlantic. The British, embarrassed by a defeat at the Battle of Coronel on 1 November, sent a...
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- Dec 8, 1914
Battle of Heligoland Bight
The First Battle of Heligoland Bight was the first naval battle of the First World War, fought on 28 August 1914, after the British planned to attack German patrols off the north-west German coast.
The German High Seas Fleet remained largely in safe...
Date:
- Aug 28, 1914
Battle of Dogger Bank
The Battle of Dogger Bank was a naval battle fought near the Dogger Bank in the North Sea on 24 January 1915, during the First World War, between squadrons of the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet.
Decoded radio intercepts had given...
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- Jan 24, 1915
Siege of Kut
The Siege of Kut was a major battle of World War I. It was part of the Mesopotamian Campaign (in what is now Iraq). The British Empire's Indian Expeditionary Force D was defeated by Ottoman forces and later surrendered.
Kut-al-Amara is a town on the...
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- 4 months (Dec 7, 1915 — Apr 29, 1916)
Treaty of Trianon
The Treaty of Trianon was the peace treaty concluded in 1920 at the end of World War I by the Allies of World War I, on one side, and Hungary, seen as a successor of Austria-Hungary, on the other. The treaty established the borders of Hungary and...
Date:
- Jun 4, 1920
Battle of Gallipoli
The Gallipoli Campaign took place at Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey from 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916, during the First World War. A joint British Empire and French operation was mounted to capture the Ottoman capital of Istanbul, and secure a sea...
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- 8 months (Apr 25, 1915 — Jan 9, 1916)
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also called the Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire western front. The whole offensive was planned by Marshall Ferdinand Foch to breach...
Battle of Stalluponen
The Battle of Stallupönen, fought between Russian and German armies on August 17, 1914, was the opening battle of World War I on the Eastern Front. It was a minor German success, but did little to upset the Russian timetable.
The German Schlieffen...
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- Aug 17, 1914 —
Brusilov Offensive
The Brusilov Offensive (Russian: Брусиловский прорыв) was the Russian Empire's greatest feat of arms during World War I, and among the most lethal battles in world history. Professor Graydon A. Tunstall of the University of South Florida called the...
Battle of Romani
The Battle of Romani took place near the Egyptian town of Romani which lies 23 miles (37 km) east of the Suez Canal near the Mediterranean shore of the Sinai peninsula. On the night of August 3, 1916, an Ottoman army, under the command of Friedrich...
Battle of Łódź
The Battle of Łódź took place from November 11 to December 6, 1914, near the city of Łódź in Poland. It was fought between the German Ninth Army and the Russian First, Second, and Fifth Armies, in appalling winter conditions.
By September 1914 the...
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- Nov 11, 1914 —
Battle of the Nek
The Battle of the Nek was a small World War I battle fought as part of the Gallipoli campaign. This is the battle described in the film "Gallipoli" starring Mel Gibson. "The Nek" was a narrow stretch of ridge in the Anzac battlefield on the...
Date:
- Aug 7, 1915
Battle of Magdhaba
The Battle of Magdhaba took place near the tiny Egyptian outpost of Magdhaba in the Sinai desert, some 22 miles (35 km) from El Arish on the Mediterranean coast. In late 1916 the Ottoman forces in the Sinai, which had been menacing the British...
Battle of Lone Pine
The Battle of Lone Pine, which took place during the Gallipoli campaign from the sixth to the tenth of August 1915, was merely a diversion to draw attention from the main assaults of 6 August against the Sari Bair peaks of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971....
Duration:
- 4 days (Aug 6, 1915 — Aug 10, 1915)
Siege of Antwerp
The Siege of Antwerp was an engagement between the German and the Belgian armies during World War I. A small number of British and Austrian troops took part as well.
The German army invaded Belgium on the morning of August 4, 1914, two days after...
Duration:
- 12 days (Sep 28, 1914 — Oct 10, 1914)
Battle of Sari Bair
The Battle of Sari Bair (Turkish: Anafartalar Savaşı or "Sarı Bayır muharebesi"), also known as the August Offensive, was the final attempt made by the British to seize control of the Gallipoli peninsula from the Ottoman Empire during First World...
Duration:
- 15 days (Aug 6, 1915 — Aug 21, 1915)
Battle of Hill 60
The Battle of Hill 60 was the last major assault of the Battle of Gallipoli. It was launched on 21 August 1915 to coincide with the attack on Scimitar Hill made from the Suvla front by General Stopford's British IX Corps. Hill 60 was a low knoll at...
Duration:
- 8 days (Aug 21, 1915 — Aug 29, 1915)
Battle of Scimitar Hill
The Battle of Scimitar Hill (Yusufçuk Tepe) was the last offensive mounted by the British at Suvla during the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I. It was also the largest single-day attack ever mounted by the Allies at Gallipoli, involving three...
Date:
- Aug 21, 1915
Battle of Chunuk Bair
The Battle of Chunuk Bair was a World War I battle fought between the Turkish defenders and troops of New Zealand and Britain on Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula in August 1915. The capture of Chunuk Bair, "Çanak Bayırı" (Basin Slope) in Turkish (now ...
Duration:
- 4 days (Aug 6, 1915 — Aug 10, 1915)
First Battle of Krithia
The First Battle of Krithia was the first Allied advance of the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I. Starting at Helles on April 28, three days after the initial landings, the attack broke down due to poor leadership and planning, lack of...
Date:
- Apr 28, 1915
Second Battle of Krithia
The Second Battle of Krithia continued the Allies' attempts to advance on the Helles battlefield during the Battle of Gallipoli of World War I. The village of Krithia and neighbouring hill of Achi Baba had to be captured in order for the British to...
Duration:
- 2 days (May 6, 1915 — May 8, 1915)
Third Battle of Krithia
The Third Battle of Krithia (Kirte for Turks), fought on the Gallipoli peninsula during World War I, was the final in a series of Allied attacks against the Turkish defences aimed at capturing the original objectives of April 25, 1915. The previous...
Date:
- Jun 4, 1915
Battle of Gully Ravine
The Battle of Gully Ravine (Sığındere) was a World War I battle fought at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula. By June 1915 all thoughts the Allies had of a swift decisive victory over Turkey had vanished. The preceding Third Battle of Krithia...
Duration:
- 7 days (Jun 28, 1915 — Jul 5, 1915)
Battle of Rafa
The Battle of Rafa was a World War I battle that took place at the outpost of Rafa (known today as Rafah) on the border between the Egyptian Sinai and Palestine, at that time a part of the Ottoman Empire. It was the third and final major battle...
First Battle of Gaza
The First Battle of Gaza was a World War I battle on the southern border of Palestine. After eight months of painstaking advances, British Empire forces had succeeded in driving the Turkish forces from the Sinai Peninsula where they had been...
Unterseeboot 4
Seiner Majestät UB-4 was a German Type UB I submarine (U-boat) in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. She was sunk by a British Q ship disguised as a fishing smack in August 1915.
UB-4 was ordered in October...
Battle of Beersheba
The Battle of Beersheba took place on 31 October 1917, as part of the Sinai and Palestine campaign during World War I. The highlight of the battle was the now famous charge of the Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade, which covered some six kilometres...
Duration:
- Oct 31, 1917 —
Second Battle of Gaza
The Second Battle of Gaza, fought in southern Palestine during World War I, was the second attempt mounted by British Empire forces to break the Turkish defences along the Gaza-Beersheba line. The first Battle of Gaza of March 26 1917 was a fiasco...
Battle of Krithia Vineyard
The Battle of Krithia Vineyard was intended as a minor British action at Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula to divert attention from the imminent launch of the August Offensive. Instead, the British commander, Brigadier General H.E. Street, mounted a...
Duration:
- 7 days (Aug 6, 1915 — Aug 13, 1915)
Third Battle of Gaza
The Third Battle of Gaza was fought in 1917 in southern Palestine during World War I. The British Empire forces under the command of General Edmund Allenby successfully broke the Turkish defensive Gaza-Beersheba line. The critical moment of the...
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- 1917 —
Spring Offensive
The 1918 Spring Offensive or Kaiserschlacht (Kaiser's Battle), also known as the Ludendorff Offensive, was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during World War I, which marked the deepest advances by either side since 1914. The German...
Duration:
- 3 months (Mar 21, 1918 — Jul 18, 1918)
Battle of Caporetto
The Battle of Caporetto (also known as the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo or the Battle of Karfreit as it was known by the Central Powers; Slovene: Bitka pri Kobaridu), took place from 24 October to 19 November 1917, near the town of Kobarid (now in...
Duration:
- Oct 24, 1917 —
Battle of Saint-Mihiel
The Battle of Saint-Mihiel was a World War I battle fought between September 12 - 15, 1918, involving the American Expeditionary Force and 48,000 French troops under the command of U.S. general John J. Pershing against German positions. The United...
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- Sep 12, 1918 —
Landing at Anzac Cove
The landing at Anzac Cove was part of the amphibious invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli peninsula by British and French forces on April 25, 1915. The landing, north of Gaba Tepe on the Aegean coast of the peninsula, was made by soldiers of the...
Date:
- Apr 25, 1915
Battle of Loos
The Battle of Loos was one of the major British offensives mounted on the Western Front in 1915 during World War I. It marked the first time the British used poison gas during the war, and is also famous for the fact that it witnessed the first...
Duration:
- 3 days (Sep 25, 1915 — Sep 28, 1915)
First Battle of Ypres
The First Battle of Ypres, also called the First Battle of Flanders (French: 1re Bataille des Flandres), was the last major battle of the first year of World War I (1914); actually a series of battles, starting on 19 October and ending, according to...
Duration:
- 1 months (Oct 19, 1914 — Nov 30, 1914)
Battle of the Yser
The Battle of the Yser secured part of the coastline of Belgium for the allies in the "Race to the Sea" after the first three months of World War I.
As part of the execution of the Schlieffen Plan, Belgium had been invaded by Germany. Following the...
Second Battle of Ypres
The Second Battle of Ypres was the first time Germany used poison gas on a large scale on the Western Front in World War I and the first time a former colonial force (Canadians) pushed back a major European power (Germans) on European soil, which...
Duration:
- 1 months (Apr 22, 1915 — May 25, 1915)
First Battle of the Atlantic
The First Battle of the Atlantic (1914–1918) was a naval campaign of World War I, largely fought in the seas around the British Isles and in the Atlantic Ocean. Both the German Empire and United Kingdom relied heavily on imports to feed their...
Duration:
- 4 years (Jul 28, 1914 — Nov 11, 1918)
Battle of Belleau Wood
The Battle of Belleau Wood (1 June 1918 – 26 June 1918) occurred during the German 1918 Spring Offensive in World War I, near the Marne River in France. The battle was fought between the U.S. Second (under the command of Major General Omar Bundy)...
Duration:
- 25 days (Jun 1, 1918 — Jun 26, 1918)
Battle of Hamel
The Battle of Hamel (4 July 1918) was a successful attack launched by the Australian Corps of the Australian Imperial Force and several American units against German positions in and around the town of Hamel in northern France during World War I....
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- Jul 4, 1918 —
Basmachi Revolt
The Basmachi movement (Russian: Басмачество, Basmachestvo) or Basmachi Revolt was a Muslim and largely Turkic uprising against Russian Empire and Soviet Russia rule in Central Asia.
The movement started in 1916 during World War I as an anti-tsarist...
Duration:
- 15 years (1916 — 1931)
Battle of Mons
The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in World War I.
Following the surrender of the Liège forts by the Belgian Army on 16 August 1914, the Germans continued advancing towards Paris in accordance...
Duration:
- Aug 16, 1914 —
Battle of Megiddo
The Battle of Megiddo (Turkish: Megiddo Muharebesi, less commonly known as the Battle of Armageddon and sometimes called the Rout of Nablus (Nablus Hezi) or the Battle of the Nablus Plain by the Turks), from 19 September to 1 October, 1918, and its...
Duration:
- Sep 21, 1918 —
Landing at Cape Helles
The landing at Cape Helles was part of the amphibious invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula by British and French forces on April 25, 1915 during the First World War. Helles, at the foot of the peninsula, was the main landing area. With the support of...
Date:
- Apr 25, 1915
Battle of Tanga
The Battle of Tanga, sometimes also known as the Battle of the Bees, was the unsuccessful attack by the British Indian Expeditionary Force “B” under Major General A.E. Aitken to capture German East Africa (the mainland portion of present-day...
Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign
The naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign of the First World War were mainly carried out by the Royal Navy with substantial support from the French and minor contributions from Russia and Australia. The Dardanelles Campaign began as a purely...
Duration:
- 10 months (Feb 19, 1915 — Jan 9, 1916)
