High School History - WW I
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Tannenberg
Gallipoli
Easte rn
F ro n t O c t. 1 9 1 7
Blockade British
Sarajevo
Rome
Paris
Constantinople (Istanbul)
London
Petrograd (St. Petersburg)
Moscow
Vienna
Brussels
Berlin
B A
L K
A N
P E N I N
S U L A
GREAT BRITAI N
SPAIN
FR AN CE
ITALY
GERMANY
AUSTRIA- HUNGARY
GREECE
NORWAY
SWEDEN
O T T O M A N E M P I R E
LUXEMBOURG
MONTENEGRO
SWITZERLAND
BELGIUM
SERBIA
ALBANIA
ROMANIA
BULGARIA
NETHERLANDS
DENMARK I RE LAN D
(Br.) R U S S I A
PORTUGAL
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
North
Sea
Bay
of
Biscay
Black Sea
Balt ic Se a
A d ria tic
Sea
A eg ea n
S ea
M e d i t e r r a n e a n
S e a
40°N
50°N
20°E
0°
10°W
Allied Powers, 1916
Central Powers, 1916
Neutral countries
German submarine activity
Battle
0 250 500 kilometers
0 250 500 miles
N
S
E
W
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Tannenberg, Aug. 1914
Germans stop Russian
advance.
May 1915
Lusitania sunk.
Sarajevo, June 1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
is assassinated.
A
B
C
D
Farthest German a dv an
c e ,
Sept. 5, 1914
Front on July 1, 1916
Metz
Lunéville Paris
Brussels
En g l is h C ha n n
e l
Som m e
M arne
Me use
M e u se
R h in e
Seine
M o selle
O ise Aisne
NETHERLANDS
BELGIUM
F R A N C E
G E R M A N Y
LUXEMBOURG
SWITZERLAND
0
0 50 100 kilometers
50 100 miles
Marne, 1st battle, Sept. 1914 Allies stop German advance on Paris.
Germans use chemical weapons for the first time.
Ypres, 2nd battle, May 1915
French hold the line in longest battle of the war.
Verdun, Feb.–July 1916
A
B
C
D Disastrous British offensive.
German troop movement
Allied troop movement
Somme, 1st battle, July–Nov. 1916
N
S
EW
The Western Front 1914–1916
GEOGRAPHY SKILLBUILDER
1. Location About how many miles
separated the city of Paris from
German forces at the point of their
closest approach?
2. Place Consider the geographical
location of the Allies in relation to
the Central Powers. What advantage
might the Allies have had?
Europe at the Start of World War I
Gallipoli, April 1915–Jan. 1916
Allied forces defeated in bid to
establish a supply route to Russia.
