74.12 Turkey and Italy Enter the War, 1915

74.12 Turkey and Italy Enter the War, 1915

The first months of fighting in the First World War had seen no major breakthrough from any side. The Germans had captured about ten percent of France, and reached within sixty miles of Paris, but then reached a stalemate as both sides fortified their positions with great long lines of trenches running from Belgium to the Swiss border.


Both sides attempt to bring other countries into the war to help break the stalemate and to tip the balance in their favour. The Italians, though deeply divided, decide in the end to join the side of Britain, France and Russia. And an allied attack against the Ottomans fails at Gallipoli.


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74.15 The Russian Revolution 1917

74.15 The Russian Revolution 1917

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74.14 Battles of Verdun and The Somme 1916

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74.13 Eastern and Western Fronts 1915

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For the Germans, 1915 was a year that should not have been. Their whole strategy had been based on a quick war, but they now found themselves embroiled in a two-front war – on the eastern front agains...

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74.10 The Western Front 1914

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74.9 Europe Goes to War 1914

74.9 Europe Goes to War 1914

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