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Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive May 1915- Russians versus Germans-Germany joins with Austria Hungary- Destroy Russian 3rd Army and take Galacia, ruducing the Russian threat to A-H...leads to Bolshevik revolution in Russia
Third Balkan War Austria's War against Serbia. Russia teams up with Serbia and Austria already has a "blank check" from Germany for support
Triple Entente France, Britain, Russia
Concert of Europe
Weltpolitik world policy- wanted to balance power by with a preventative war
Schleifen plan The plan plotted the invasion of Belgium and the encirclement of the French armies within 42 days, PROVIDED that the Belgians capitulated quickly and the French Army contested and met defeat during the German invasion.
Plan XVII The French army’s plan 17 stipulated attack through Alsace Lorraine, the most heavily fortified region in Western Europe. They ignored the extent of the German right wing’s swing through Belgium.
OberOst New German command after little success on Western Front for Germany. Germany felt need to attack using meneuver tactics on Easter front, appointing Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Won battles Tannenburg (August 1914) and Gorlice Tarnow (May 1915)
Battle or Tannenburg Led by Hindenburg and Ludendorff- appointed by Moltke. Russians suffer massive casualties 50,000 to 10,000 German casualties. Samsonov-russian commanding General loses and kills himself
Gorlice-Tarnow May 1915- Germany bombards Russian 3rd army with artillery for 4 hours. Russia suffers staggering losses.
storm of steel the use of artillery attacking infantry in the trenches goes up quite a bit- leads to the development of more accurate artillery
bite and hold tactic used to advance through trenches. attack through the lines, hold a defensive position to keep what was gained
Nueve Chapelle first British offensive in the spring of 1915- demonstrated the importance of communications with infantry, arillery, and reserve force-in the battle forces were to spread out, artillery killed friendlies....all due to bad communincations
Chantilly Conference 6 DEC 1915-first actual effort for the allies to come up with a common allied strategy across multiple fronts of the war- Britain, France, Serbia, Italy, Russia. Came up with the Somme plan.
Creeping barrage soldiers creeping towards the enemy staying close to the artillery
SS143 German manual for the rifleman...standardized German infantry operations
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare part of the reason america gets into the war....sink Lusatania with this. unrestricted completely, pisses everyone off
Blockade the means of exercising maritime supremacy, particularly against a continental coalition; the blockade against Germany gave the allies the power of coercion
Nivelle Offensive nivelle replaces joffre. attacks what he believes to be weak German lines. German lines ARE weak, but they are heavily reinforced. massive casualties leads to 1917 French Mutiny
Battles of the Isonzo Italian army running on fumes....germany moves its army to help A-H and they successfully defeat the Italians completely
Bolshevik Revolution Germany sneaks Lenin into russia, he demands a lot of things......continues internal struggles in russia
Combined Operations Germany lost the war partially because they did not have the capability to have combined operations. navy, airpower not there
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Russia's exit from the war in 1918. Germany left with a lot of gains of countries with a lot of resources
Michael Offensive Spring 1918- Marked the beggining of the end of WWI. Germany although they didnt neccisarily lose the battle began to lose the war all together. Entente had allies coming, Germany was falling apart
Sykes-Picot Agreement agreements between GB, France, defineing the way they would divide up the ottoman empire after the war was over. Bolshevik revolution exposes this....great distrust between allies and the arab nations
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