Which of the following most affected the course and outcome of WW1?

Question

a. allied withdrawal from the Turkish peninsula of Gallipoli
b. British victories in the Sinai that secured the Suez Canal
c. American military and financial intervention in the war
d. the switch in allegience of Italy

Answer 1

by far, the answer is c. American military and financial intervention.
Gallipoli (a.) is irrelevant - it was an Allied attempt to open a front in Turkey, it was a disaster. If Gallipoli had succeeded, that might have mattered. But probably not, because Germany needn't have cared too much about the Ottomans collapsing.
I'm not familiar with the Suez campaign (b.), but I don't see why it would have had a strong effect. The axis powers were all in Europe, and there weren't any major fronts on the other side of Asia. Conceivably Australian troops and Japanese navy were going to Europe via the Suez, but if they were they weren't terribly important.
Italy switching sides (d.) was trivial. Italy mattered so much that the peace conference at Versailles didn't even deliver on the bribe (ie of land) they had offered to Orlando to get Italy to switch sides. The Italian armed forces were a joke. 20 years later, it was an act of modernization for Mussolini to have them all wielding bayonets. The Germans/Austrians had to move troops to defend the Southern front, but it wasn't a big extension of the trench.
By far the greatest impact on the war was America intervening for the allies. Germany was holding its lines against France/Britain when it was also fighting an Eastern front against the Tzar. The Russian Revolution and subsequent peace freed Germany's eastern front and allowed her to swing her full might to the west. Highly doubtful that France/Britain could have held France against the full force of the German Army without American help.

Answer 2

The most influenctial was actually the Battle of the Marne in September 1914. In the battle, French units under the command of Ferdinand Foch would crush the flank of two German armies that had turned far earlier then the German Schleiffen plan had intended and stopped the German advance, and forced the western front to dissolve into trench warfare, in which point the side with the greatest possible manpower and supplies to draw from would be the winner, which was France and Britain.

A. - It was a failed campaign and even if it had succeeded, the only possible change would have been preventing the Russian Revolution, which might well have happened anyway.

B. - The British controled Eygpt at the start of the war. Their victories in the Middle East did nothing to influence Germany, which was the greater threat.

C. - While American History textbooks will say that America saved Europe, the fact of the matter is that the US army contributed virtually nothing to Allied war effort. We entered in 1917 and most troops didn't arrive until 1918, when it was clearly obvious that the German army was exhuasted. The Germans fought us to a draw in each of the two major battles the US fought in WWI (Muese-Argonne, Belleau Wood). Financial aide to the allies is America's greatest contribution in WWI, but America's entry only sped up the Allied victory which could have been predicted by the French victory on the Marne in 1914.

d. Italy did nothing but divert German attention, and really achieved little military success.

Answer 3

C. World War 1 was won and lost in France. No other theatre of war was decisive. They added pressure to Germany, but all were eventually proven to be sideshows.

While American financial and military intervention was not directly decisive, it pressured Germany into trying to win the war in 1918, while clamping the blockade more tightly thanks to US naval support. Germany had been content to sit on the defensive on the Western Front and could have held out for years this way, but German leaders knew American support would defeat them in 1919 or 1920, so they tried an 'all-or-nothing' attack in April 1918- the 'Michael' offensive or 'Kaiserschlacht'. This failed, and the British and French were able to begin defeating the weakened German army.

Several months later, the American army finally arrived in something other than token numbers. By this time, Germany was reeling and peace was just a month away.

To refute the others in detail:

a). This attempt to link up with Russia was a waste of time. Russia's withdrawal from the war in 1917 proved such a link would have made little difference. The main war still had to be fought in France.

b) This secured British supply lines, but even if they lost the Suez the British could have sailed around Africa. Inconvneient, but not decisive.

c) Italy was held by a few Austrian divisions. It drew off no important German forces, and the Italians added little to allied capabilities.

Answer 4

B by far. the yankee intervention surely grew to become what probable could have been a German/Austro-Hungarian/Ottoman victory right into a French and British one. not because of the fact our military develop into extremely greater suited, it develop into because of the fact it develop into sparkling. D develop into significant besides, yet did not have the impact that the US get admission to did.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

c. american miliary and financial intervention in the war

Answer 7

c