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Date August 26, 1914 - August 30, 1914
Location Poland • Stębark
Participants Germany • Russia
Context World War I

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Battle of Tannenberg
World War I
Russian troops; World War I
Max Hoffmann, about 1925
August von Mackensen
Erich Ludendorff
Post-World War I and post-World War II boundary changes of the area of former East Prussia and its major towns.
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British Cavalry at the Battle of Mons
Battle of the Frontiers
August 4, 1914 - September 6, 1914
Western Front in World War I, 1914–18
Battle of Mons
August 23, 1914
Battle of Tannenberg
Battle of Tannenberg
August 26, 1914 - August 30, 1914
World War I
First Battle of the Marne
September 6, 1914 - September 12, 1914
Ypres, Belgium
First Battle of Ypres
October 19, 1914 - November 22, 1914
Battle of Tanga
November 2, 1914 - November 5, 1914
Falkland Islands
Battle of the Falkland Islands
December 8, 1914
Christmas Truce
Christmas Truce
December 24, 1914 - December 25, 1914
World War I: Allied troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula
Gallipoli Campaign
February 16, 1915 - January 9, 1916
The Dardanelles
naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign
February 19, 1915 - March 18, 1915
gas masks at the Second Battle of Ypres
Second Battle of Ypres
April 22, 1915 - May 25, 1915
Battles of the Isonzo
June 23, 1915 - October 24, 1917
Australia and New Zealand Army Corps troops
Battle of Lone Pine
August 6, 1915 - August 10, 1915
Battle of Verdun
Battle of Verdun
February 21, 1916 - December 18, 1916
Battle of Jutland
Battle of Jutland
May 31, 1916 - June 1, 1916
General Aleksey Brusilov
Brusilov Offensive
June 4, 1916 - August 10, 1916
Somme; machine gun
First Battle of the Somme
July 1, 1916 - November 13, 1916
Scene from the Battle of Messines
Battle of Messines
June 7, 1917 - June 14, 1917
June Offensive
July 1, 1917 - c. July 4, 1917
Ypres, Belgium, 1918
Battle of Passchendaele
July 31, 1917 - November 6, 1917
Cadorna, Luigi
Battle of Caporetto
October 24, 1917 - December 19, 1917
tank in the Battle of Cambrai
Battle of Cambrai
November 20, 1917 - December 8, 1917
treaties of Brest-Litovsk
treaties of Brest-Litovsk
February 9, 1918; March 3, 1918
German Prisoners at Belleau Wood
Battle of Belleau Wood
June 1, 1918 - June 26, 1918
Battle of Amiens
August 8, 1918 - August 11, 1918
John J. Pershing
Battle of Saint-Mihiel
September 12, 1918 - September 16, 1918
World War I: British army
Battle of Cambrai
September 27, 1918 - October 11, 1918
Battle of Mons
November 11, 1918

Key People

Erich Ludendorff
Erich Ludendorff
German general
Paul von Hindenburg
Paul von Hindenburg
German president
Alfred von Schlieffen
German military officer
Max Hoffmann, about 1925
Max Hoffmann
German general
August von Mackensen
August von Mackensen
German military officer

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