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List of military engagements of World War I

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A German trench in the swamp area near the Mazuric Lakes on the Eastern Front. Picture taken in February 1915, just before the German winter-offensive started in heavy snowstorms.
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A German trench in the swamp area near the Mazuric Lakes on the Eastern Front. Picture taken in February 1915, just before the German winter-offensive started in heavy snowstorms.

British battleship HMS Irresistible abandoned and sinking, 18 March 1915, during the Battle of Gallipoli.
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British battleship HMS Irresistible abandoned and sinking, 18 March 1915, during the Battle of Gallipoli.

Manfred von Richthofen's Fokker triplane
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Manfred von Richthofen's Fokker triplane

This is a List of military engagements of World War I which encompasses land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period of time. Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localised to a specific area and over a specific period of time. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the First Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war. Another example is the Battle of Gallipoli (also called the "Dardanelles Campaign"), which in fact was a number of battles fought between 1915 and 1916.

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Europe

For most of World War I, Allied and German Forces were stalled at trenches on the Western Front.
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For most of World War I, Allied and German Forces were stalled at trenches on the Western Front.













Serbia










W Beach, Helles, on January 7, 1916, just prior to the final evacuation of British forces during the Battle of Gallipoli.

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W Beach, Helles, on January 7, 1916, just prior to the final evacuation of British forces during the Battle of Gallipoli.







The Battle of Gallipoli (also called the "Dardanelles Campaign"), was in fact a number of battles fought between 1915 and 1916.














South Arabian Campaign

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Naval engagements

See also: Naval warfare of World War I






Mediterranean




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Air engagements

World War I was the first war to see major use of planes for offensive, defensive and reconnaissance operations, and both the Entente Powers and the Central Powers used planes extensively. Almost as soon as they were invented, planes were drafted for military service. 


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Contemporary Wars

Some historians consider some of these wars as being part of World War I, as they are considered to have a direct connection to the start of the war, or having been caused by the aftermath.



Pre-1914



Post-1917



See also


Main articles






 World War I

 Theatres
 Main events
 Specific articles
 Participants
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Prelude:

Main theatres:

Other theatres:

General timeline:


1914:

• Battle of Liège

• Battle of Tannenberg

• Invasion of Serbia

• First Battle of the Marne

• Battle of Sarikamis

1915:

• First Battle of Arras

• Mesopotamian Campaign

• Battle of Gallipoli

• Italian Campaign

• Conquest of Serbia

1916:

• Battle of Verdun

• Battle of the Somme

• Battle of Jutland

• Brusilov Offensive

• Conquest of Romania

• Great Arab Revolt

1917:

• Second Battle of Arras (Vimy Ridge)

• Battle of Passchendaele

• Russian Revolution

• Capture of Baghdad

• Conquest of Palestine

1918:

• Spring Offensive

• Hundred Days Offensive

• Meuse-Argonne Offensive

• Armistice with Germany

• Armistice with Ottoman Empire





Civilian impact and atrocities:

Aftermath:




Entente Powers

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Russian Empire


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France


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United Kingdom


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Australia


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Canada


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India


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New Zealand


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Newfoundland


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South Africa


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Italy


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Romania


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United States


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Serbia


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Portugal


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China


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Japan


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Belgium


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Montenegro


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Greece


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Armenia


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Central Powers

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German Empire


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Austria-Hungary


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Ottoman Empire


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Bulgaria




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• A war to end all wars

• Female roles

• Naval warfare

• Literature

• Total war

• Spanish flu

• Veterans


Contemporaneous conflicts:

• First Balkan War

• Second Balkan War

• Maritz Rebellion

• Easter Rising

• Russian Revolution

• Russian Civil War

• North Russia Campaign

• Wielkopolska Uprising

• Polish-Soviet War

• Turkish War of Independence




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