Key Battles of World War One
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Key Battles Of World War 1_Special Announcment - Sources Used for WW1 Series
24 Sep 2023
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Introducing James Early's New Podcast "Key Battles of American History"
26 Feb 2021
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Did you enjoy this series? Then you'll love James Early's new show "Key Battles of American History." Check it out on the podcast player of your choic...
24: The Eternal Legacy of the First World War
31 Dec 2020
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World War One was the most consequential social event in centuries. 10 million soldiers died, creating 3 million widows and 10 million orphans. Many E...
23: The Sad Afterlives of WW1's Leaders: The Humbling (and Exiling) of Generals, Emperors, and Sultans
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From 1914-1918, the leaders of World War One were generals who commanded millions of men, emperors who inherited dynasties with centuries of accumulat...
22: The 1919 Paris Peace Conference Laid The First Bricks of the Road to World War Two
29 Dec 2020
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The Paris Peace Conference opened on January 18, 1919. Its task was the writing of five separate peace treaties with the defeated separate powers: Ger...
21: WW1 Ends with Armistice -- The Moment of Silence That Sounded Like the Voice of God
28 Dec 2020
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After Germany's' failed spring offensive, realized the only way to win was to push into France before the United States fully deployed its resources. ...
20: The 1918 Battle of Meggido Shattered the Ottoman Empire and Created the Modern Middle East
27 Dec 2020
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The Battle of Megiddo was the climactic battle of the Sinai and Palestine campaign of the First World War, with Germans and Ottomans on one side, and ...
19: The Empire Strikes Back -- Germany's Final Push to Win WW1 in Spring 1918
26 Dec 2020
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Many thought that Germany was capable of winning World War One until the very end. Unlike World War 2, in which the Allies believed that victory was i...
18: Tank Warfare--How Military Tech Took a Quantum Leap at the Battle of Cambrai (1917)
25 Dec 2020
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The British developed the tank in response to the trench warfare of World War I. In 1914, a British army colonel named Ernest Swinton and William Hank...
17: The Yanks Are Coming -- America Enters World War One
24 Dec 2020
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Most Americans are indifferent about the nation's involvement in World War One (under half say the U.S. had a responsibility to fight in the war; one-...
16: The Slog of War -- the Passchendaele Campaign of 1917
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The best way to describe the Third Ypres (Passchendaele) Campaign of 1917. It’s ‘slog.’ When you think about a drudging act that seems to accomp...
15: The Russian Revolutions of 1917-1923--A Bigger Threat Than the Kaiser?
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve looked at many battles in this series, but we’ve only tangentially touched on how this war fundamentally altered European society. The Great...
14: Why WW1 Was the Graveyard of Empires (Russian, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian)
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
World War One shattered the empires of Russia, the Ottomans, and the Austro-Hungarians, which had all existed in one form or another for centuries. Th...
13: The Battle of the Somme Caused 1 Million Casualties But Was a Turning Point for WW1
20 Dec 2020
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The 1916 Battle of the Somme caused a total of 1 million casualties on all sides. the total is over a million casualties. The Allies had gained very l...
12: The Flying Aces of World War One
19 Dec 2020
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Since the first successful flight of an airplane, people had imagined and dreamed of airplanes being used for combat. H. G. Wells's 1908 book (The War...
11: The Brusilov Offensive: Russia's Mortal Blow to Austria-Hungary
18 Dec 2020
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10: WW1 At Sea: The Battle of Jutland (1916)
17 Dec 2020
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Although overlooked today, the war at sea was a crucial part of World War I overall. The German use of the Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (in which no...
9: Verdun - The 299-Day Battle That Killed 300K Soldiers And Still Scars The Earth With Unexploded Shells
16 Dec 2020
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The Battle of Verdun--fought from February 21-December 18 1916 in the Western Front of France--was horrifying and hellish even by the standards of Wor...
8: How 1915 Became World War One's Year of Poison Gas, Genocide, and Millions of Refugees
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1915, the Central Powers and Allies dug in their heels and tried desperately to break the stalemate of the war, still hoping for a short conflict o...
7: The Battle of Gallipoli (1915) How Ataturk and the Ottomans Hurled the Allies (Including Winston Churchill) Into the Sea
14 Dec 2020
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The Allies desperately wanted to take control of the Dardanelles (the straights connecting Constantinople with the Mediterranean). They were crucial t...
6: World War 1 Trenches Were A Labyrinth of Rats, Disease, Decaying Flesh, and the Omnipresent Threat of Death
13 Dec 2020
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5: The Average WW1 Soldier Was a 110-Pound Villager Who Suffered Disease, Hunger, and PTSD
12 Dec 2020
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4: Germany's Plans For Total French Defeat in 1914 Failed at the Battle of the Marne
11 Dec 2020
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The beginning of World War One was marked the breakdown of the western powers’ war plans. Leaders on both sides experienced surprises, shocks, and t...
3: Germany So Completely Annihilated Russia At the WW1 Battle of Tannenberg That A Russian General Committed Suicide
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Battle of Tannenberg was the first major battle of World War One, fought between Germany and Russia, who surprised everyone with its fast mobiliza...
2: Europe's Pre-WW1 Alliances Were a Doomsday Machine That Pulled the Entire Continent Into War
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An impossibly complex web of alliances that maintained a fragile peace in Europe (and surprisingly held it together since the end of the Napoleonic Wa...
1: Europe in 1914 Had Absolutely No Idea They Were About To Enter The Most Hellish War Ever
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
World War One is the watershed moment in modern history. The Western World before it was one of aristocrats, empires, colonies, and optimism for a fut...