Battle of WWI

Battles of WWI

Battles of the Marne
1914- German army advancing through Belgium and northern France. Caused panic among the French. The army was rushed from Paris to halt attack.
Germans were stopped.
1918- Germans pushing again. The four years in between had cost hundreds of thousands of lives and the armies were still exactly where they had started.

Battles of Ypres
1914- Attempt by the British to stop the advances of Germans
1915- First use of poison gas
1917- Over-ambitious aims, bad weather, and bad judgments’ led to horrific losses. Total casualties for this one battle reached over 250,000.

Battle of Somme
“Big Push” attack across river Somme by British. Soldiers did not follow orders,
Artillery bombardment did not dislodge German wire or destroy machine-gun posts, becoming one of the biggest slaughters in military history.


Battle of Cambrai
British launched the first full-scale offensive with the tank. 476 tanks charged towards German lines.
Success surprised both sides and British were not prepared for the victory.

Casualties
Great Britain 1,000,000
France 1,300,000
Russia 1,700,000
Germany and allies 3,500,000
America 50,000
At least 5,500 people died per day during the War