1. World War I Major Battles U.S. Entry in the War

2. War of Attrition A slow wearing down of the enemy An attempt to “bleed” the other side until they are incapable or unwilling to continue the fight Both sides try to outlast the other

3. Tannenberg August 1914: Tannenberg – Eastern Front – Russians defeated by Germans in Eastern Germany

4. Gallipoli April 1915 Great Britain attempts to take control of the entrance to the Black Sea controlled by the Turks – Mainly Australians fighting for British

5. Gallipoli British are unsuccessful 145,000 British causalities

6. Battle of Jutland May 1916 Naval Battle between British and German forces Germany tried to break through the British blockade on Germany British victory

8. Battle of Verdun Dec. 1916 Western Front German attempt to “bleed’ France by attacking the French city Verdun France holds city German 330,000 French 350,000

9. Battle of the Somme July 1916 Western Front British suffer huge losses in an unsuccessful attempt to break the stalemate – 19,000 British soldiers killed in the first day of the battle – 40,000 British soldiers wounded

11. The Russian Collapse Russia pulls out of the war in Oct. 1917 – Eastern Front – 2,000,000 Russians had been killed in the war Overthrow of the Russian Czar – Communist revolution in led by Vladimir Lenin – Czar Nicholas II is overthrown Russian soldiers began desert the army War on the Eastern Front ends

12. The Romanov Family

13. Lenin

14. Revolution

15. Death of the Romanoff Family

16. Russia Pulls Out of the War October 1917 Civil War breaks out in Russia – White army (loyal to the czar) vs. the Red Army (communists) – Communists led by Lenin and Trotsky win

17. U.S. Troops Arrive in France June 1918 Germany had just begun a new offensive American Expeditionary Force led by Gen. Pershing Americans stop the German offensive at the Marne River in July 1918 American victories at Verdun and Argonne Forest push Germans back to German border – Germans faced with invasion of Germany

18. Armistice Germans ask for an end to the fighting on October 14, 1918 Armistice takes effect at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918 – 11 th hour of the 11 month of the 11 day – Veteran’s Day