World War I (1918): Breaking the Hindenburg Line
[387] [desk-ww1-5] Italy bled on the Isonzo; Allenby took Jerusalem and Damascus; the Arab Revolt and Sykes-Picot drew a postwar not accidents of stupidity alone; they were attempts to break a front that artillery and machine-guns favoure The Sarajevo assassination was a regional shock; German backing of Austria (the "blank cheque") and Russian mo On a timeline, write the date and place of World W
The Sarajevo assassination was a regional shock; German backing of Austria (the "blank cheque") and Russian mobilisation made it continental. Britain's entry on 4 August followed the German invasion of Belgium. War plans -- Schlieffen-Moltke, Plan XVII, the Austrian Balkan war -- assumed short campaigns. By Christmas 1914 the Western Front had frozen into field fortifications from the Channel to Switzerland.
Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele were not accidents of stupidity alone; they were attempts to break a front that artillery and machine-guns favoured in defence. Commanders learned slowly, then all at once in 1918 with combined arms. The blockade of the Central Powers and Germany's U-boat campaigns made food and shipping into weapons. The 1917 US entry added credit, men and a political end-state: Wilson's Fourteen Points.
Russia's 1917 revolutions took it out of the war at Brest-Litovsk (March 1918). Italy bled on the Isonzo; Allenby took Jerusalem and Damascus; the Arab Revolt and Sykes-Picot drew a postwar Middle East. East Africa under von Lettow-Vorbeck and the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire belong in the same war, even when Western Front museums omit them.
The timeline keeps year, place, and what moved. If “Breaking the Hindenburg Line” is the movement, the figure is 09 and the year is 1918.1918
Figures to keep
- Year of the action
- 1918
- Figure in the record
- 09
- Action
- World War I
- Line of the front
- Breaking the Hindenburg Line