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Date April 22, 1915 - May 25, 1915
Location Belgium • Ypres
Participants Belgium • France • Germany • United Kingdom
Context World War I

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gas masks at the Second Battle of Ypres
Ypres, Belgium
“In Flanders Fields”
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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

Ferdinand Foch
Ferdinand Foch
marshal of France

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