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Combatants Great Britian, South Africa, France, Belgium, Portugal Germany The African Theatre of World War I was a set of unrelated wars for control over German colonies in Africa: the German colonies of Kamerun, Togo, South-West Africa, and German East Africa. ...
The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany. ...
Great Britain is an island lying off the western coast of Europe, comprising the main territory of the United Kingdom. ...
Jan Smuts Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM (May 24, 1870 – September 11, 1950) was a prominent South African statesman and general. ...
General Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck (March 20, 1870 - March 9, 1964) was the commander of the German East Africa campaign in World War I, the only colonial campaign of that war where Germany remained undefeated. ...
Introduction
German East Africa (modern-day Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda) was a large territory with complex geography (including the massive Rift Valley and Lake Victoria). The land is fertile and recieves a moderate rain throughout the year. German East Africa was Germanys colony in East Africa, including what is now Burundi, Rwanda, and the mainland part of Tanzania. ...
In geology, a rift valley is a valley created by the formation of a rift. ...
Lake Victoria, as seen from space Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza (also known as Ukerewe and Nalubaale) is one of the Great Lakes of Africa. ...
At the start of the war, the German colony administrator, von Schnee, ordered that no hostile action was to be taken. To the north, the British Governor of Kenya stated that Kenya "had no interest in the present war" (Keegan, "World War I", pg. 210). The reason for this was, in part, neither colony had many troops. But the commander of the tiny German army in East Africa, Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck, ignored von Schnee and assembled his army for battle. At the start of the war, the German forces were about 200 officers, and 2,500 Askari. General Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck (March 20, 1870 - March 9, 1964) was the commander of the German East Africa campaign in World War I, the only colonial campaign of that war where Germany remained undefeated. ...
A drawing of an Askari by Wilhelm Kuhnert Askari is an Arabic and Swahili word meaning soldier. It was frequently used to describe indigenous troops in East Africa and the Middle East serving European colonial powers but also describes policemen and security guards. ...
The War Begins, 1914-1915 - Main article: Paul_Erich_von_Lettow-Vorbeck#World_War_I_career
The fighting in German East Africa began in September of 1914. The Germans staged raids into neighboring Kenya and Uganda. Lettow-Vorbek also created a tiny navy and his boats sailed on Lake Victoria, causing minor damage but a great deal of news. The British created some gun-boats in England and sent them in pieces via railroad to Lake Victoria to take control over the lake. The British also sent two brigades from India to deal with the German army. The British tried to land the troops at Tanga on November 2, 1914 but the Germans completely disrupted the landing. General Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck (March 20, 1870 - March 9, 1964) was the commander of the German East Africa campaign in World War I, the only colonial campaign of that war where Germany remained undefeated. ...
For other meanings, see Tanga (Portugal), Tanga (clothing) and Tanga (Movie). ...
November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ...
1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
- Main article: Battle_of_Tanga
Heavy and accurate fire prevented the British from moving off the beaches and finally forced the Anglo-Indian brigades to re-embark three days later. The supplies left behind on the beaches kept Lettow-Vorbeck's tiny army equiped for the next year (Keegan, "World War I", pg 211). The Battle of Tanga (sometimes nicknamed the Battle of the Bees) was the blundered attempt by the United Kingdom to capture Tanzania) during World War I. It was the first major event in the war in Africa. ...
The Arrival of General Smuts, 1916 In 1916, General Jan Smuts was given the task of defeating Lettow-Vorbeck. Smuts had a large army (for the area), some 13,000 Boers, English, and Rhodesian as well as 7,000 Indian and African soldiers. Also, not under his direct command but fighting on his side, was a small Belgian force and a larger but totally ineffective Portugese unit based in Mozambique. Despite all these troops from different countries, this was essentially a South African operation under Smuts control. During the previous year, Lettow-Vorbeck had also gained troops and his army was now 3,500 Germans and some 12,000 askaris. 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Jan Smuts Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM (May 24, 1870 – September 11, 1950) was a prominent South African statesman and general. ...
The word Portuguese can mean: From or related to Portugal The ethnic Portuguese people, see list of Portuguese people The Portuguese language Portuguese Creole Portuguese sidewalk Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who was nicknamed My little Portuguese by her husband Robert Browning. ...
Smuts army attacked from several directions, the main attack was from the north out of Kenya, a small Belgian unit advanced from the west, over Lake Victoria and into the Rift Valley. Another force advanced over Lake Nyasa (modern-day Lake Malawi) from the south-east. All these forces failed to catch Lettow-Vorbeck and they all suffered terribly from disease along the march. One unit (9th South African Infantry) started at a strength of 1,135 in February and by October was down to 116 men, without doing much fighting at all (Cyril Falls, "The Great War" pg. 253). However, the Germans always retreated, and by September of 1916, the German railway from the coast at Dar-es-Salaam to Ujiji was under British control. Lake Malawi seen from the Space Shuttle. ...
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Ujiji is the oldest town in western Tanzania. ...
At this point, with Lettow-Vorbeck's forces confined to the southern part of German East Africa, Smuts began to withdraw his South-African, Rhodesian, and Indian troops and replace them with African soldiers. By the start of 1917 more than half the British army was composed of African soldiers, and by the end of the war, it was nearly all African troops. Smuts himself left the area in January of 1917 to go to London. 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...
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Last Years, 1917-1918 Despite continued efforts to capture or destroy Lettow-Vorbeck's army, the British failed to end the German resistance. In fact, the German army was able to tie down large British forces and even defeat them upon occasion. For example, the Germans beat the British at a battle near Mahiwa in October 1917. They lost 100 men and the British lost 1600.
In 1918, Lettow-Vorbeck raided south into Portuguese Mozambique to gain recruits and supplies by capturing small Portuguese garrisons. The German army re-entered German East Africa in August 1918 and it won its last victory at the city of Kasama on November 13, two days after the armistice was signed in Europe. Lettow-Vorbeck finally surrendered his undefeated army at Abercorn in present-day Zambia on November 23. November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ...
Assessment In this campaign, disease killed or incapacitated 30 men for every man killed in battle (on the British side) (Keegan "World War I", pg. 300).
As Cyril Falls writes
The achievement of Lettow-Vorbek deserves undying fame. He was cut off from home. He could entertain no hope of a decisive victory. His aim was purely to keep the British on the stretch as much as possible for as long as possible and to make them expend the largest possible resources in men, in shipping, and in supplies. By this yardstick he was successful. (Cyril Falls, "The Great War" pg. 254.
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For most of World War I, Allied and German Forces were stalled at trenches on the Western Front. ...
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The Italian campaign refers to a series of battles fought between the armies of Italy and Austria Hungary along with their allies in northern Italy between 1915 and 1918. ...
Combatants Ottoman Empire Triple Entente Strength 2. ...
The Caucasus Campaign was fought from 1914 until 1918 in the Caucasus during World War I between the Russian Empire a member of the Allied Powers and the Ottoman Empire a member of the Central Powers. ...
The Mesopotamian Campaign was a theater of the First World War fought between Allied forces represented by British and Anglo-Indian troops, and Central forces of the Ottoman Empire. ...
Sinai and Palestine Campaign during World War I: Sinai campaign Battle of Romani Battle of Magdhaba Battle of Rafa Palestine campaign First Battle of Gaza Second Battle of Gaza Third Battle of Gaza Battle of Beersheba Battle of Megiddo Categories: Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign ...
Combatants United Kingdom France India Australia New Zealand Newfoundland Ottoman Empire Commanders Sir Ian Hamilton Otto Liman von Sanders Strength 5 divisions (initial) 14 divisions (final) 6 divisions (initial) 14 divisions (final) Casualties 252,000 (205,000 British, 47,000 French) dead 97,000 wounded 145,000+ sick 253,000...
Combatants Great Britian, South Africa, France, Belgium, Portugal Germany The African Theatre of World War I was a set of unrelated wars for control over German colonies in Africa: the German colonies of Kamerun, Togo, South-West Africa, and German East Africa. ...
This article describes the conquest and occupation of German held South-West Africa, now called Namibia, by forces from the Union of South Africa acting on behalf of the British Imperial Government at the start of World War I. The outbreak of hostilities in Europe in August 1914 had long...
The Pacific Campaign of World War I saw limited action by the forces of Australia, New Zealand and Japan. ...
The Battle of Tsingtao was the attack on the German-controlled port of Tsingtao (now Qingdao) in China during World War I. It too took place between 27 August-7 November 1914 and was fought by Japan and the United Kingdom against Germany. ...
British battleship HMS Irresistible abandoned and sinking, 18 March 1915, during the Battle of Gallipoli. ...
Nieuport Fighter Aisne, France 1917 // Up to 1914: The Early Years of War The Dawn of Air Combat Early in the war, canvas-and-wood aircraft were used primarily as mobile observation vehicles. ...
The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion1, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the recreation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa. ...
Easter Proclamation, read by Pádraig Pearse outside the GPO at the start of the Easter Rising, 1916. ...
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a series of political events in Russia, which, after the elimination of the Russian autocracy system, and the Provisional Government (Duma), resulted in the establishment of the Soviet power under the control of the Bolshevik party. ...
Combatants Allies: Serbia, Russia, France, Romania, Belgium, British Empire, United States, Italy, and others Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead:5 million Civilian dead:3 million Total dead:8 million Military dead:4 million Civilian dead:3 million Total dead:7 million The First World...
Main Theaters: A plaque commemorating the exact scene of the Sarajevo Assassination. ...
The Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia or July Ultimatum was an ultimatum or final list of demands delivered to the government of Serbia on July 23, 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo. ...
Lesser Theaters: For most of World War I, Allied and German Forces were stalled at trenches on the Western Front. ...
A German trench in the swamp area near the Mazuric Lakes on the Eastern Front. ...
The Italian campaign refers to a series of battles fought between the armies of Italy and Austria Hungary along with their allies in northern Italy between 1915 and 1918. ...
Combatants Ottoman Empire Triple Entente Strength 2. ...
Combatants Central Powers Triple Entente, Serbia, Romania The Balkans Campaign of World War I was fought between Serbia and later Romania who sided with the Allied Powers against the Central Powers, mostly Austria-Hungary and Germany as well as Bulgaria. ...
The First Battle of the Atlantic (1914–1918) was a naval campaign of World War I, largely fought in the seas around the British Isles and in the Atlantic Ocean. ...
General timeline: Combatants Great Britian, South Africa, France, Belgium, Portugal Germany The African Theatre of World War I was a set of unrelated wars for control over German colonies in Africa: the German colonies of Kamerun, Togo, South-West Africa, and German East Africa. ...
The Pacific Campaign of World War One saw limited action by the forces of Australia and Japan. ...
| 1914:
• Battle of Liège
• Battle of Tannenberg
• Invasion of Serbia
• First Battle of the Marne
• Battle of Sarikamis
1915:
• First Battle of Arras
• Mesopotamian Campaign
• Battle of Gallipoli
• Italian Campaign
1916:
• Battle of Verdun
• Battle of the Somme
• Battle of Jutland
• Brusilov Offensive
• Conquest of Romania
1917:
• Second Battle of Arras (Vimy Ridge)
• Battle of Passchendaele
• Russian Revolution
• Capture of Baghdad
• Conquest of Palestine
1918:
• Spring Offensive
• Hundred Days Offensive
• Meuse-Argonne Offensive
• Armistice with Germany
• Armistice with Ottoman Empire
The following table lists the main events happened during World War One: Categories: | ...
The Battle of Liège was the opening battle of the German invasion into Belgium, and the first battle of World War I. // The plan In 1870, soon after the German military defeated the French in the Franco-Prussian War, German military leader Helmuth von Moltke began formulating a plan...
Combatants Imperial Russia German Empire Commanders General Alexander Samsonov General Paul von Rennenkampf General Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg General Erich Ludendorff Strength 150,000 210,000 Casualties 30,000 killed or wounded; 95,000 captured 20,000 The Battle of Tannenberg in 1914 was a decisive conflict between the...
Combatants Central Powers, Bulgaria Serbia, Triple Entente The Serbian Campaign was fought from August 1914 until then end of the war in 1918 with a nearly two year break in the middle as Serbia was conquered. ...
Combatants France United Kingdom Germany Commanders Joseph Joffre John French Helmuth von Moltke Karl von Bulow Alexander von Kluck Strength 1,071,000 1,485,000 Casualties Approximately 263,000 including; 80,000 French dead 1,701 British dead Approximately 250,000 total The First Battle of the Marne was...
Combatants Russia Ottoman Empire Commanders General Vorontsov General Yudenich Enver Pasha Strength 100,000 90,000 (plus aprox. ...
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The Mesopotamian Campaign was a theater of the First World War fought between Allied forces represented by British and Anglo-Indian troops, and Central forces of the Ottoman Empire. ...
Combatants United Kingdom France India Australia New Zealand Newfoundland Ottoman Empire Commanders Sir Ian Hamilton Otto Liman von Sanders Strength 5 divisions (initial) 14 divisions (final) 6 divisions (initial) 14 divisions (final) Casualties 252,000 (205,000 British, 47,000 French) dead 97,000 wounded 145,000+ sick 253,000...
The Italian campaign refers to a series of battles fought between the armies of Italy and Austria Hungary along with their allies in northern Italy between 1915 and 1918. ...
Combatants France Germany Commanders Philippe Pétain Robert Nivelle Erich von Falkenhayn Strength About 30,000 on 21 February 1916 About 150,000 on 21 February 1916 Casualties 378,000; of whom 120,000 dead 337,000; of whom 100,000 dead The Battle of Verdun was a major battle...
Combatants United Kingdom France Canada India Newfoundland New Zealand South Africa Australia German Empire Commanders Douglas Haig Ferdinand Foch Max von Gallwitz Fritz von Below Strength 13 British & 6 French divisions (initial) 51 British divisions (final) 10. ...
Combatants United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland German Empire Commanders Sir John Jellicoe, Sir David Beatty Reinhard Scheer, Franz von Hipper Strength 28 battleships, 9 battlecruisers, 8 armoured cruisers, 26 light cruisers, 78 destroyers 16 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 6 pre-dreadnoughts, 11 light cruisers, 61 torpedo-boats Casualties 6...
Combatants Russian Empire Austria-Hungary Imperial Germany Commanders Aleksei Brusilov Conrad von Hötzendorf Alexander von Linsingen Strength 40+ infantry divisions (573,000 men) 15 cavalry divisions (60,000 men) 39 infantry divisions (437,000 men) 10 Cavalry divisions (30,000 men) Casualties ~500,000 men killed and wounded 1...
Combatants Central Powers, Bulgaria Romania, Russia Commanders General Falkenhayn General Mackensen General Averescu, General Zaionchovsky Strength 450,000 600,000 Casualties 60,000 roughly 330,000 (50% POWs) The Romanian Campaign was a campaign in the Balkans theatre of World War I fought between Romania and Russia against armies of...
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Combatants United Kingdom France Canada Australia New Zealand German Empire Commanders Douglas Haig Hubert Gough Herbert Plumer Francois Anthoine Max von Gallwitz Erich Ludendorff Strength Unknown Unknown Casualties 448,000 killed and wounded 260,000 killed and wounded The 1917 Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of...
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a series of political events in Russia, which, after the elimination of the Russian autocracy system, and the Provisional Government (Duma), resulted in the establishment of the Soviet power under the control of the Bolshevik party. ...
Combatants The Tigris Corps of British India Sixth Army of the Ottoman Empire Commanders Sir Frederick Stanley Maude Khalil Pasha Strength 50,000 men 25,000 men Casualties unknown unknown, more than 9,000 were taken prisoner Baghdad was the southern capital of the Ottoman Empire in 1917. ...
Sinai and Palestine Campaign during World War I: Sinai campaign Battle of Romani Battle of Magdhaba Battle of Rafa Palestine campaign First Battle of Gaza Second Battle of Gaza Third Battle of Gaza Battle of Beersheba Battle of Megiddo Categories: Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign ...
The 1918 Spring Offensive or Kaiserschlacht was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during the First World War, which marked the deepest advance by either side since 1914. ...
The Hundred Days Offensive was the final offensive in World War I by the Allies against the Central Powers on the Western Front from August 8, 1918 to November 11, 1918. ...
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was a major battle of World War I. It was the biggest operation and victory of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in that war. ...
The armistice treaty between the Allies and Germany was signed in a railway carriage in woods near Compiègne on November 11th, 1918, and marked the end of the First World War on the Western Front. ...
The Armistice of Mudros was signed between the Ottoman Empire (represented by the Ottoman Minister of Marine Affairs Rauf Beg) and the Allies (represented by the British Admiral Arthur Calthorpe), in the Mudros port in the island of Lemnos on 30 October 1918. ...
| Civilian impact & atrocities: A German trench in the swamp area near the Mazuric Lakes on the Eastern Front. ...
Nieuport Fighter Aisne, France 1917 // Up to 1914: The Early Years of War The Dawn of Air Combat Early in the war, canvas-and-wood aircraft were used primarily as mobile observation vehicles. ...
British battleship HMS Irresistible abandoned and sinking, 18 March 1915, during the Battle of Gallipoli. ...
In cryptography, trench codes were codes used for secrecy by field armies in World War I. A reasonably-designed code is generally more difficult to crack than a classical cipher, but of course suffers from the difficulty of preparing, distributing, and protecting codebooks. ...
A poison gas attack in World War I. The use of poison gas was a major military innovation of the First World War. ...
The machine gun was one of the decisive technologies during World War I. Picture: British Vickers machine gun crew on the Western Front. ...
Trench Warfare is a form of war in which both opposing armies have static lines of fortifications dug into the ground, facing each other. ...
Aftermath: Armenian Genocide. ...
The Assyrian Genocide (Syriac: ) was an alleged genocide against the Assyrian population of the former Ottoman Empire. ...
| Participants Woodrow Wilson and the American peace commissioners during the negotiations on the Treaty of Versailles. ...
Pie chart showing deaths by alliance and military/civilian. ...
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, at Brest, formerly Brest-Litovsk, between Russia and the Central Powers, marking Russias exit from World War I. The treaty was practically obsolete before the end of the year but is significant as a chief...
The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference, organized by the victors of World War I to negotiate the peace treaties between the Allied and Associated Powers and the defeated Central Powers. ...
The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany. ...
A map depicting the effects of Sèvres upon Turkey The Treaty of Sèvres of August 10, 1920, was a peace treaty between the Entente and Associated Powers1 and the Ottoman Empire after World War I. The treaty was signed by the Ottoman Government, but Sultan Mehmed VI never...
The League of Nations was an international organization founded after the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. ...
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Serbia and Montenegro – Serbia – Kosovo (UN administration) – Vojvodina – Montenegro Official language Serbian1 Capital Belgrade Area – Total – % water 88,361 km² n/a Population – Total (2002) (not including data for Kosovo and Metohia Province) – Density 7. ...
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World War I (then known as The Great War) was at the time and in the years just after described as the war to end all wars (or, in the jargon of the French Poilus: la der des der, i. ...
Rosie the Riveter: We Can Do It! - Many women first found economic strength in World War II-era manufacturing jobs. ...
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This article is about Total War. ...
The Spanish Flu Pandemic, also known as , or , was a pandemic caused by an unusually severe and deadly strain of the subtype H1N1 of the species Influenza A virus. ...
The following is a list of surviving veterans of the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918). ...
Contemporaneous conflicts:
• First Balkan War
• Second Balkan War
• Maritz Rebellion
• Easter Rising
• Russian Revolution
• Russian Civil War
• North Russia Campaign
• Wielkopolska Uprising
• Polish-Soviet War
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The region and battle places For more background on this topic, see Balkan Wars. ...
The Second Balkan War was fought in 1913 between Bulgaria on one side and Greece and Serbia on the other side. ...
The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion1, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the recreation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa. ...
Easter Proclamation, read by Pádraig Pearse outside the GPO at the start of the Easter Rising, 1916. ...
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a series of political events in Russia, which, after the elimination of the Russian autocracy system, and the Provisional Government (Duma), resulted in the establishment of the Soviet power under the control of the Bolshevik party. ...
The Russian Civil War was fought from 1918 to 1922. ...
North Russia Campaign Arkhangelsk Oblast May 1918 – Sept 1919 Polar Bear Expedition Russian Civil War North Russia Relief Force // Introduction The North Russia Campaign (also known as the Northern Russian Expedition or the Allied Intervention in North Russia) was the involvement of international troops part of the Allied Intervention in...
Soldiers of the Great Polish Army Wielkopolska Uprising of 1918–1919 (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1918–19 roku) was a military insurrection of the Polish people in the Greater Poland region (also called the Grand Duchy of Poznań) against the German/Prussian forces. ...
Combatants Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Second Polish Republic Commanders Mikhail Tukhachevsky Józef Piłsudski Edward Rydz-Śmigły Strength 950,000 including reserves 5 million 360,000 including reserves 738,000 Casualties Unknown, dead estimated at 100,000 - 150,000 Unknown, dead estimated at 60,000 The Polish...
Combatants Greece Turkish Revolutionaries The Greco–Turkish War of 1919–1922, also called the War in Asia Minor, and in Turkey considered a part of the Turkish War of Independence, was a war between Greece and Turkey fought in the wake of World War I. This political context of this...
Combatants First Republic of Armenia Turkish Revolutionaries In 1920 the Turkish Armenian War was a series of four battles and many small skirmishes between the First Republic of Armenia and groups of the Turkish National Movement. ...
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