Notable Conflicts

Question 1

Battle of the Marne

Answer 1

sept 1914
- 25 miles from Paris
- french general attacks germans after they were tired from getting there
- caused them to retreat to high groudn

Question 2

1st Battle of Ypres

Answer 2

oct 1914
- germans tried to break through the coast but stopped by british, paris and channel ports saved
- around 1.7 million deaths

Question 3

Battle of Verdun

Answer 3

1916
- battle of attrition in french town Verdun against G
- G used flamethrowers & captured 2 forts

Question 4

Battle of the Somme

Answer 4

1916
- 1st day - worst day in british military history
- army of english volunteers (untrained) sent to relieve pressure at Verdun and failed miserably against well-built German trenches
- 650,000 allied casualties for 6 miles of land

Question 5

Battle of Passchendaele

Answer 5

1917
- 4 million shells
- heaviest rain in a decade turned area to swamp, men and horses drowned in mud
- disaster

Question 6

Battle of Cambrai

Answer 6

Nov 1917
- 324 tanks (NEW TECH) pushed back ghe germans 5 miles in a day
- biggest advance on western front for 3 yrs
- however tanks started to break down

Question 7

Brusilov Offensive

Answer 7

1916
- Russians attack AH and regained almost all previously lsost land
- Austrian army almost completely destroyed, G had to divert from WF and save them

Question 8

Caporetto

Answer 8

1917
- Italians pushed back by German-Austrian attack 80 miles in 11 days
- 10,000 killed
- poor conditions and pay

Question 9

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Answer 9

1917
- R retires from war to appease peasants
- Looses Ukraine, Poland, Baltic states & money
- transfer of G troops to WF

Question 10

American Participation

Answer 10

1917
- after tensions had been raising for a while (luisistania, zimmerman telegraphs)
- contributed 130,000 men (little) but navy, economic support ($7,000,000,000), developed strategies against u-boats, sent example to other countries (cuba, panama, haiti)

Question 11

Ludendorff Offensive / Opperation Michael

Answer 11

• G last ditch attempt to win war
• Well planned but lacked resources compared to allies
• cost the Germans 600,000 casualties and overall failed

Question 12

Battle of Vittorio and Veneto

Answer 12

1918
- AH military disintegrates

Question 12

2nd Battle of Marne

Answer 12

1918
- Final failed German attack

Question 13

Hundred Days Offensive

Answer 13

• Final ditch of the war, when the Allies beat the rest of germany
• 26th Sept pass over Hindenburg line

Question 14

8th August 1918

Answer 14

‘black day’ of German Army
- Allies attack and advance 7 miles into Germany in a day
- German troops begin to surrender