What are 10 main key events in WWI?

Question

What do you think 10 main key events in WWI are?
And why?

What do you think 10 main key events in WWI are?
And why?

-Yes, it is for a project/essay. But I have done my research. I am asking advice from others.

Answer 1

In date order: -

1.1914 July: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Serbia tried to avoid war by responding generously to demands from Austria-Hungary. But A-H, encouraged by Germany, was hell-bent on crushing Serbia. A-H’s action unleashed mobilization throughout the network of alliances in Europe.

2.1914 August: Germany declares war on Russia, then on France, then invades Belgium.
Although all nations began mobilizing after [1] above, the conflict might have been limited to a war involving only Austria-Hungary versus Serbia and Russia. But Germany feared that such a limited war would result in the defeat of A-H, its only reliable ally. In accordance with firm war plans laid down by the General Staff, Germany resolved to support A-H against Russia, but to concentrate first on beating Russia’s ally, France. Germany’s plan for attacking France called for a flanking movement through Belgium, in order to avoid being bogged down by the French defenses along the French-German border. The German invasion of Belgium forced Britain to join her Entente allies against Germany.

3.1914 August / September: The battles of Tannenberg and the Marne lead to stalemate.
All belligerents had expected a quick war. The Germans expected to crush France quickly, then turn and deal with Russia. But the Germans surprised themselves by destroying Russia’s invading armies at Tannenberg in East Prussia, much reducing Russia as a threat thereafter. Then Germany got a less pleasant surprise, when the French armies did not break under their assault, but instead (with some British and Belgian help) pushed the invaders back in the series of engagements known as the Battle of the Marne. The Western Front began to solidify as the first trenches were dug, and remained virtually deadlocked in those positions until 1918.

4.1915 February / December: Failure of Allied attacks on the Dardanelles and Gallipoli.
Turkey could have remained neutral, but in October 1914 had chosen to join the war on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary. This effectively blocked Russia from receiving help from France and Britain. The Allied attacks on the Dardanelles and landings at Gallipoli aimed to knock Turkey out of the war and open up a line of supply to Russia via the Black Sea. The failure of the attacks on the Dardanelles would ultimately contribute to Russia’s miltary collapse and to the success of the Bolshevik Revolution.

5.1915 May: Italy enters the war on the side of the Allies.
Before the war, Italy had been an ally of Germany and Austria-Hungary; but initially Italy remained neutral, and then eventually decided to enter the war against its former partners. This did little to help France and Britain, because the new front between Italy and Austria-Hungary quickly became bogged down. But at least Italy’s choice meant that the Allies had no need to divert naval and army resources to the Mediterranean to guard against a new enemy on that flank.

6.1916 May / June: Naval battle of Jutland.
The British Royal Navy had kept Germany’s fleet bottled up in the North Sea since the beginning of the war, and enabled Britain to prevent food and supplies reaching Germany from neutral countries overseas. Slowly, this blockade was reducing Germany’s ability to feed its population and to keep its armies supplied. Although Jutland (the biggest surface naval battle in history) produced no clear tactical victor, it left Germany’s fleet permanently bottled up in its ports, and the slow strangulation of the blockade still in place.

7.1917 February: Germany resumes “unrestricted” submarine warfare.
In response to the British naval blockade, Germany relied increasingly on its submarines to destroy Britain’s ability to feed its people and to obtain supplies from overseas. Protests from the United States had led Germany to place limits on its submarine attacks on neutral shipping. But early in 1917, Germany removed those limits and resumed unrestricted attacks on neutral ships. This decision proved disastrous for Germany, because within months it brought America into the war on the side of the Allies.

8.1917 February and October: Russian revolutions.
The failure of the Tsarist regime to manage its war effort successfully led to mutinies in the armed forces and riots in major cities. The initial revolution, in February, led to the abdication of the Tsar, but was otherwise changed very little. Lenin’s return from exile (assisted by Germany) then led to the gradual triumph of the Bolsheviks and Soviets, producing the much more violent second revolution in October and the subsequent civil war in Russia. And, of course, the rise of the Communist regime in Russia produced not only nightmarish decades of terror in that country, but also the division of the world into hostile camps through the second half of the 20th century.

9.1918 March to July: German attacks on Western Front fail.
With American troops beginning to arrive in large numbers, and with the British blockade biting ever deeper into its food and industrial supplies, Germany determined that it must win the war quickly on the Western Front. Using additional forces freed from the East by Russia’s collapse, and employing innovative infiltration tactics, Germany’s initial offensives gained a lot of ground. But the Allies managed to plug the gaps and hold on until the German efforts were exhausted. Then the Allies moved over to the offensive themselves, driving the now beaten and demoralized German armies back toward the Fatherland. By October, Germany had lost its ability to keep fighting, and asked for peace. The Kaiser abdicated and an Armistice was concluded in November.

10.1918 September: Battle of Megiddo (Palestine).
Since 1916, British and allied Arab forces had been attacking the Turkish empire’s positions in the Middle East. Baghdad had fallen to the British in March 1917, and Jerusalem in December. A final British offensive at Megiddo in Palestine now led to the complete collapse of Turkish resistance. In October 1918, Turkey obtained an Armistice from the Allies. At the peace conference in 1919, Turkey would formally lose the empire that it had already lost in combat. Arab lands such as Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine were divided up and allotted to the victorious British and French as part of their spheres of influence. And all of the world’s troubles in the Middle East to this day can be traced to Turkey’s collapse at Megiddo.

Answer 2

In my humble opinion, these events surely are a significant part of what is known as the Great War, World War I, or the First World War: (1914) 1.Germany invades neutral Belgium 2. Russia invades East Prussia 3. Battle of Tannenberg 4. Battle of the Marne (1915) 5. British blockade of German ports 6. Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary (1916) 7. Turkish forces defeated by Russia in the Caucasus 8. The battle of the Somme ends (1917) 9. Russia opens peace negotiations with Germany
(1918) 10. Germany negotiates an armistice

Answer 3

(have to appologise in advance as I am somewhat tired and the brain is refusing to co-opperate) ... Ok ... One very interesting event of WW1 is the fact that there was a cross over of military tactics... We had the event of traditional battle methods meeting with advances in machinary and weaponary and this was one main factor in to as why there were such high mortality rates... It was probably one of the biggest factors of the war as after the battles of Flanders, the Somme, Paschendale Verdun and so many many more ... much study was done as so to avoid such casualities again... You had leaders like Kitchener, an old battle hand not being able to get his head around why so many were dying ... It was possibly a good thing ( in a tragic way) that he drown on route to discuss military plans with other leaders. There were many other high ranking soldiers that had antiquicated battle methods , who insisted on sending man after man over the top .. so to storm the other side .. ONLY to have them cut down by machine guns. You had the emergence of the USA as an economic power, due to the devastation of many european countries and areas, and the loss of man power. You had the break down of the Ottoman Empire, You had Kemel Attaturk bringing the nation of Turkey into the Western World. You had the formation of some long lasting (and continuing) alliances... the ANZACs (australian New zealand Army Corps).... I could go on and on about all sorts of things .. but the brain is allowing the fingers to ramble on too much on the keyboard.. BUT can I reccommend Les Carlyon's GREAT WAR. and his GALLIPOLI

Answer 4

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