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This interactive map gives you an abbreviated glimpse into which countries and territories were involved in the Great War and how they were aligned. Whether they fought with the Allied or the Central Powers, or stayed neutral, WWI still touched almost every country and region on the planet.
Explore the global impact of the First World War through our online map (now only available via the UK Government Web Archive), which highlights key events and figures in the conflict from...
Jul 6, 2021 · World War I. description: A World War I interactive map with timeline features. This page deals with the.
- World War I – The Great War
- First Battle of The Marne
- Battle of Tannenberg
- First Battle of Ypres
- The Battle For Gallipoli
- Battle of Verdun
- Battle of The Somme
- Financial Impact
Although World War I involved primarily the countries of Europe and was fought largely in Europe, it also spread to other parts of the world, especially to areas in and around the colonial possessions of the warring European powers.The main opposing forces were the Central Powers, which included Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey against the Allie...
Fought during September 6-12, 1914, the First Battle of the Marne was a counter offensive undertaken by the French army and the British Expeditionary Force to halt the German advance towards the French capital Paris. Earlier, the Germans had already overrun Belgium and most of northeastern France to reach just 30 miles outside of Paris thereby forc...
While the German advance on the Western Front was stopped at Marne, on the Eastern Front they were engaged by a 3,50,000 person strong Russian army at Tannenberg in present-day northeastern Poland. But at Tannenberg, the Germans handed out the Russians a crushing defeat leading to heavy Russian casualties. Imperial Russia lost almost an entire army...
Also called the Battle of Flanders, the First Battle of Ypres was fought during October and November 1914, and was the last major battle of the first stage of World War I on the Western Front. After the repulse of the German advance towards Paris with the Allied victory at Marne, both sides tried to swing around the other’s defenses and thereby out...
Responding to Russian pleas to relieve them of some of the Turkish pressure in the Caucasus region, the Allies decided to carry out a naval expedition to capture the strategically located Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey with an eye on capturing Constantinople (now Istanbul). Finally on April 24, 1915, an amphibious force comprising of soldiers from B...
From 1914 until early 1916, the Allies’ efforts were geared towards breaking the deadlock that had set in as a result of the prolonged trench warfare. All along during this period, the Allies, especially the British, tried to consolidate their strength in terms of both men and material in order to be able to launch a major offensive to end the tren...
Fought from July 1 to November 18, 1916, the battle of the Somme was an Allied offensive aimed at diverting German attention from the assault on Verdun and relieving pressure on the French forces there. But the offensive proved largely unsuccessful, although it managed to divert the Germans from Verdun and therefore secure the French defenses on th...
The financial implications of the war were calamitous. Although World War I cannot be said to have directly caused the Great Depression, the financial strains of the Great War certainly acted as catalysts. The following table shows the costs incurred by the warring nations in U.S. dollars from 1914 to 1918.
Create your own custom historical map of Europe at the start of World War I (1914). Color an editable map, fill in the legend, and download it for free to use in your project.
1 day ago · July 12, 2018 - The map of Europe underwent drastic revision after World War I. The defeated Central Powers – Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey – suffered huge territorial losses, and new independent countries were born, from Finland in the north to Yugoslavia in the south.
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These World War I maps have been selected and compiled by Alpha History authors. Maps appearing here are in the public domain or appear under creative commons licenses. 1914 - Outline map of Europe. 1914 - A satirical map of Europe.
