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WWI 1917

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

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WWI 1917

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  1. WWI 1917 By Miu Yamamoto and Ai Kano

  2. IN THE WEST

  3. 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 Attack in Champagne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Champagne

  4. First Battle: • Fought for the town, Ypres • Victory of allies, although losses were heavy • Second Battle: • Germany used poison gas • Third Battle: Passchendaele • Muddy condition • The British (324,000) against Germans (200,000) • Advance of only 4 miles The Third Battle of Ypres http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dccfarr/summary.htm http://www.1914.org/podcasts/podcast-31-passchendaele/

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

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

  7. ON THE EASTRN FRONT

  8. 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) December 1917 http://www.worldology.com/Europe/world_war_1_imap.htm

  9. THE ENTRY OF THE USA

  10. 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 April 1917 http://sunnycv.com/steve/ww1/images/94747a.jpg http://unique-posters.tumblr.com/

  11. The End

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