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
http://sunnycv.com/steve/ww1/images/94747a.jpghttp://unique-posters.tumblr.com/
The End
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