Name that Battle Flashcards
September 5, 1914
The Battle of the Marne
August 14 to September 6, 1914
Battle of the Frontiers
600 Parisian taxi cabs
The Battle of the Marne
3,000 heavy guns on each side
The Battle of the Marne
34 German generals resigning?
The Battle of the Marne
600,000 total casualties roughly divided equally between each side?
The Battle of the Marne
October 8, 1914 to November 14, 1914
The First Battle of Ypres
Belgians opened the sluice gates of the Yser River to flood the path of the Germans?
The First Battle of Ypres
20 August 1914?
The Battle of Gumbinnen
The 1st Russian army was attacked by the German 8th army?
The Battle of Gumbinne
8,000 German casualties out of 30,000 attacking soldiers?
The Battle of Gumbinnen
Paul von Hindenburg and Ludendorff were appointed after the battle?
Battle of Gumbinnen
Russians failed to distribute code books between army’s?
The Battle of Tannenberg
The German 8th army attacks Samsanov’s 2nd army?
The Battle of Tannenburg
50,000 Russians killed and 100,000 taken prisoner?
The Battle of Tannenberg
Forced the transfer of 90,000 German soldiers from the Western Front?
The Battle of Gumbinnen
117,000 Soldiers surrounded inside a fortress?
Przemysl
March 22, 1915 the fortress surrenders?
The fortress of Przemysl
Spurred the Germans to swith their main focus from the Wester Front to the Eastern Front?
Przemysl
December 22, 1914?
Battle of Sarikamish
Temperatures hits -30 degrees Farenheit?
The Battle of Sarikamish
Ten days of fighting between the Russian Caucasus army and the Turks?
The Battle of Sarikamish
Supply problems and the cold force the Turkish to retreat?
The Battle of Sarikamish
80,000 out of 120,000 invading Turks are casualties?
The Battle of Sarikamish
The first great Ottoman Empire?
The Battle of Sarikamish
February-December 1915?
The Battle of Gallipoli
April 25, 1915 Entente forces land on the peninsula?
The Battle of Gallipoli
The Ottoman Army holds the invading forces close to the shore for eight months?
The Battle of Gallipoli
ANZAC forces?
The Battle of Gallipoli
Causes Bulgaria to join the Central Powers?
The Battle of Gallipoli
By December 1915 the Allies have suffered 230,000 casualties?
The Battle of Gallipoli
By December 1915 5the Ottomans have suffered 300,000 casualties?
The Battle of Gallipoli
February 1916, Eastern Front?
Erzerum
The Russians attack from all sides capturing all Turkish artillery in the region in five days?
Ezerum
160,000 insurgents in protests against conscription?
The Grand Riviere uprising
14 Battalions and numerous cossacks to put down?
Russian Central Asia rebellions
January-April 1915
Carpathian Mountains
140,000 Russian prisoners taken in two days?
The Gorlice Tarnow Offensive
May 2, 1915
The Gorlice-Tarnow
1.4 million Russian casualties over half of which were POW’s?
The Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive
Gave the Germans all of Poland and large parts of Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine?
The Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive
Caused the Great Retreat in Russia?
The Gorlice Tarnow Offensive
Drove 6 million refugees from Eastern Russia?
The Gorlice Tarnow Offensive
Britain joined the French attack at Champagne?
The Third Battle of Artois
The British used chlorine gas for the first time rather unsuccessfully?
The Third Battle of Artois
The British use airplanes to locate targets for artillery and to conduct the first successful tactical bombing raids in history?
The Third Battle of Artois
September 25, 1915 to October 14, 1915?
The Third Battle of Artois
The French lost 200,000 casualties, the Germans 60,000 and the British 50,000?
The Third Battle of Artois
February 21, 1916 bombardment of 1200 guns?
The Battle of Verdun
French Premier Aristide Briand insisted that the city be held over Joffre’s objections?
The Battle of Verdun
The German 5th army rains 17 and 1/2 railway wagons of shells in one day on French trenches and forts?
The Battle of Verdun
Between February and December 1916 10 million artillery shells and 1.35 million tons of steel?
The Battle of Verdun
German attackers use the flamethrower or the first time?
The Battle of Verdun
German attackers use phosgene gas for the first time?
The Battle of Verdun
The Germans hoped to destroy the main railway line leading to the city?
The Battle of Verdun
The French used 3,500 trucks and 9,000 men to run supplies?
The Battle of Verdun
1700 trucks per day?
The Battle of Verdun
58% of all German deaths attributed to artillery?
The Battle of Verdun
362,000 French casualties and 336,000 German with 40% of those deaths?
The Battle of Verdun
Frequent French troop rotation system?
The Battle of Verdun
German goals were to take the city or inflict higher French casualties?
The Battle of Verdun
52 French divisions fought at this battle suffering 150,000 casualties by May 26, 1916?
The Battle of Verdun
Mach 18, 1916
The Lake Narocz offensive
350,000 Russian troops against 75,000 Germans?
The Lake Narocz offensive
The Russians had 3x more artillery than the Germans?
Lake Narocz offensive
Russians lost 100,000 and 20,000 German casualties?
The Lake Narocz Offensive
Lead by General Alexei Brusilov?
The Brusilov Offensive
Russia had 600000 men to Austria’s 500,000?
The Brusilov Offensive
June 4, 1916
The Brusilov Offensive
200,000 Austrian prisoners within a week?
The Brusilov Offensive
Forced the Austrians to take 8 divisions from the Italian front?
The Brusilov Offensive
July 1, 1916
The Battle of the Somme
Thirteen British and eleven French divisions
The Battle of the Somme
Opened with a bombardment of 1437 British guns?
The Battle of the Somme
1.5 million shells during the preliminary bombardment?
The Battle of the Somme
The British suffered 20,000 dead on the first day?
The Battle of the Somme
Hiag launched 46 attacks by individual corps over the next ten days after July 1?
The Battle of the Somme
September 15 saw the use of the tank for the first time advancing 3.5 kilometers?
The Battle of the Somme
The British advantage in air power was negated by the bad weather?
The Battle of the Somme
The French took 194,500 casualties?
The Battle of the Somme
The British took 432,000 casualties?
The Battle of the Somme
The British suffered 432,000 casualties?
The Battle of the Somme
Convinced Romania to enter the war on the side of the Allies?
The Brusilov Offensive
May 31-June 1, 1916
The Battle of the Jutland
100,000 men in 250 ships in a 72 hour battle?
The Battle of Jutland
How many days behind is the Russian calander?
Thirteen days
What days did Russia never have?
Feb 2-13, 1918
April 9, 1917
The Battle of Ypres
The British and Canadians on the Western Front?
The Battle of Arras
The Canadian corps captures Vimy Ridge?
The Battle of Arras
150,000 casualties to both sides?
The Battle of Arras
Lead by General Nivelle?
The Battle of Chemin des Dames
132 French tanks half of which were destroyed the other half broke down?
The Battle of Chemin des Dames
20,000 German prisoners were taken?
The Battle of Chemin des Dames
Within 5 days the French suffered 130,000 casualties?
The Battle of Chemin des Dames
By May 20, 1917 the French casualties had reached 20%
The Battle of Chemin des Dames
July 1917
The Third Battle of Ypres
4 million British shells?
The Third Battle of Ypres
70,000 British dead and 170,000 wounded after three months?
The Third Battle of Ypres
Put the British in a position unable to launch another offensive in 1917?
The Third Battle of Ypres
August-September 1917?
The Eleventh Batt;e pf Ospmzp
Hyped as the decisive last battle on the Italian front?
The Eleventh Battle of Isonzo River
The Italians suffered 100,000 casualties?
The Third Battle of the Isonzo River
March 21, 1918?
Operation Michael
/Tear gas shells were fired at the same time as phosgene gas
Operation Michael
Caused the British to take 40000 casualties on the first day?
Operation Michael
Cost the Germans 800,000 casualties?
Operation Michael
The turning point in the war?
The Second Battle of the Marne
July 15, 1918
The Second Battle of the Marne
Cost the Austrians 140,000 men
The Battle of Piave
July 1918, Italian Front
The Battle of Piave
Caused 200,000 Austrian soldiers to desert?
The Battle of Piave
