Important Battles of World War 1

fought along France
Belgium border
France used Plan XVII and counteroffensives on German 6th and 7th armies and took Mulhouse and was headed for Lorraine
Germany found them out and exploited gaps in the French army and defeated them and Sombre and Ardennes

fought in northeastern France
massive French casualties after Plan XVII failed
brief BEF defense at Mons before the Great Retreat
Schlieffen Plan was working
benefited the Anglo-French due to their shorter supply and comm lines, diminishing power of the offensive, and Belgian resistance
German supply and comm lines were lengthening
French aviator warned Entente of Germany coming so Joffre asked BEF to attack opening between 1st and 2nd Army.
Schlieffen Plan failed
cautious General Moltke moved back and fought

Germany Gen. Falkenhayn wanted to "bleed the French dry"
Gen Petain active defense
Germany rained artillery on French
French cautiously advance to kill as many as possible, making it harder to move guns and let Germany claim the single road directly to Verdun
Falkenhayn drew forward and Germany drew itself into a battle of attrition and ended up bleeding itself white

General von Falkenhayn stockpiled resources in the Battle of Verdun to "bleed the French white"

epitome of Allied offensive strategy in massive artillery, infantry and cavalry
ideally in Verdun in Champagne and Picardy to Amiens
Kaiser created the New Army after wasteful 1915 operations and the war's predicted end in 1916
massive week-long artillery assaults, land mines, offensve infantry across a no-mans land
hopeful creeping barrage of British soldiers against Germany crept too quickly and many died in the first wave
bombardment jumbling wires
resumed till November
General Haig want British soldiers while General Rawlinson want modest defense & neither happened

Allies except Britain exhausted after 1916 bloody battles
same strategy but more expectations and barrage intensity in no man's land
Germany counter-attack and torrential rain slowed progress General Haig continued in September with Australia and New Zealand to no avail because Germany reclaimed lands (stalemate in a stalemate)
Canada got now-nonexistent Passchendaele
high casualties

Gen. Hindenburg took advantage of Generals Rennenkampf and Samsonov's rivalry to defeat them both
Hindenburg surrounded Samsonov's 2nd Army and defeated them
Samsonov committed suicide so that he would not have to report the 30,000 casualties

Part II of Hindenburg taking advantage of the split in the Russian army
Hindenburg defeated the First Army a week after he defeated the second
the Russians fled before they could be encircled Battle of Gallipoli
Allies plan to attack Ottoman Empire because the French stalemate was becoming more and more intractable
Britain and France older ships through Dardanelles and ANZAC helped them get some lands
stopped by Mustapha Kemal (later Kemal Ataturk) decisive action and surrounding British at Suvla Bay
bad intelligence, terrain, and navigation slowed down Allies
one of Britain's best evacuations

Russia exited the war because they were dealing with intense internal social and economic pressures with the Bolshevik Revolution

only full scale naval battle of WWI between Britain and Germany.
despite the naval race, the British Royal Fleet still had a numerical advantage over the German High Seas Fleet
Germany used a hit-and-run approach before the Grand Fleet came in
new Admiral Rheinhard Sheer new plan with better comms, ammo, and propellant storage
Britain found out about the sortie and attacked and those German advantages did more damage
both sides claimed victory

Germany used a hit-and-run approach before the full Royal Fleet came in
could hit British ports and merchant ships but they'd have to do it through the British
controlled English Channel or North Sea

each nation devotes all their resources to the war
however, civilians also end up becoming a target
British blockades lead to German starvation
government take over economy to devote profit to the war
food and consumer goods are rationed to give as much resources to the war as possible.