WWI 1917 By Miu Yamamoto and Ai Kano. IN THE WEST.

WWI 1917By Miu Yamamoto and Ai Kano

IN THE WEST

Attack in Champagne

• 20 Decmeber 1914-17 March 1917

• Massive French attack in Champagne under Nivelle

• First significant attack by Allies against Germans (since Race to the Sea)

• Achieve nothing except mutiny in French army

• Loss of 90,000 French and German casualties

• Sorted out by Pétain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Champagne

The Third Battle of Ypres

• First Battle: • Fought for the town, Ypres• Victory of allies, although losses

were heavy

• Second Battle: • Germany used poison gas

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dccfarr/summary.htmhttp://www.1914.org/podcasts/podcast-31-passchendaele/

• Third Battle: Passchendaele• Muddy condition• The British (324,000) against Germans (200,000)• Advance of only 4 miles

Battle of Cambrai

• Demonstrated that tanks might cause trench warfare

• 381 British tanks threatened the German line

• But lack of problems prevented success of British

• Cambrai became the model for the successful allied attacks of 1918

http://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ファイル:Battle_of_cambrai_4_-_German_Counter-Offensive.png

Meanwhile…

• Italians were heavily defeated by the Germans and Austrians at Caporetto (October)

• Defeat led to allied supreme war counsel

• New French Premier, Clemenceau (a great war leader)

• Lloyd George, British Prime Minister supported French

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georges_Clemenceau_Imag1396.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Lloyd_George.jpg

ON THE EASTRN FRONT

December 1917

• Russia withdrew from the war (December 1917)

• Revolutions inside Russia, the Bolsheviks wanted peace

• Entire weight of German forces on the West

• Britain captured Baghdad and Jerusalem from the Turks (giving control of vast oil supplies)

http://www.worldology.com/Europe/world_war_1_imap.htm

THE ENTRY OF THE USA

April 1917

Causes

•German U-boat campaign (Lusitania)

•Germany persuading-> Mexico

•“The USA made an important contribution to the allied victory”

•USA supplied Britain and France

•End of 1917, only one American division in action

•Mid-1918, half a million men involved

•Psychological boost to the Allies

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The End