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Battle of Tannenberg
The Battle of Tannenberg of 1914 confronted the Russian Empires (I and II Armies) and German (VIII Army) at the beginning of World War I. This confrontation turned out to be one of the most decisive confrontations of the whole War.
The battle resulted in almost annihilation of the Second Army, and a series of battles immediately afterwards destroyed most of the 1st Army as well, leaving the Russians tottering until the spring of 1915. -
Battle of Marne
The event was a turning point in the course of the war as it marked the failure of the German Schlieffen Plan and, for four years, the end of the war of movements. -
Battle of the Masurian Lakes
The First Battle of the Masurian Lakes was a World War I battle between the 8th German Army and the 1st Russian Army in East Prussia from 9 to 14 September 1914. The First Battle of the Masurian Lakes was the second German victory on the eastern front over the Russians. -
Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun was the longest of World War I and the second most bloody after the Battle of the Somme. In it the French and German armies fought between February 21 and December 19, 1916, around Verdun in northeastern France. The result was a quarter of a million dead and about half a million wounded between both sides.
The battle was popularized by the famous "No pasarán!" Said by the French commander Robert Nivelle. -
Battle of Jutland
The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle of World War I, and the second largest in history after the Battle of Cape Ecnomo in 256 BC. C. Between 31 May and 1 June 1916 in the North Sea, off the coast of Denmark, the Kaiser Navy High Seas Fleet, led by Vice Admiral Reinhard Scheer, And the Great Fleet of the British Royal Navy commanded by Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. -
Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme of 1916 was one of the longest and most bloody of the First World War, with more than one million casualties between the two sides. British and French forces attempted to break the German lines along a 40 km front north and south of the River Somme in northern France. The main purpose of the battle was to distract the German troops from the Battle of Verdun. -
United States entry into the Triple Entente
It radically altered the expectations of Germans and Austro-Hungarians: it meant the opening of a new front in the Balkans but, above all, the emergence of an extraordinary power that, with its formidable economic, demographic and military weight, tipped the balance definitively on the side of the allies. -
The withdrawal of Russia
A Bolshevik revolution was unleashed that led to the signing of peace. -
Signing of the peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk
A treaty was signed between Germany and Russia, which committed Russia, territorially, to the renunciation of the Baltic countries and Poland; Recognition of the independence of Finland and Ukraine; And the payment of economic compensation to the powers. -
The end of the armistice
After a workers' revolution in Berlin, the Kaiser flees to Holland. The government of the new German Republic signs the Armistice of Rethondes on November 11, 1918. The war ends with the victory of the Allies.
