Key Battles of World War One
James Early & Scott Rank, PhD
World War One is the watershed moment in modern history. The Western World before it was one of aristocrats, empires, colonies, and optimism for a future of unending progress. After four years of hellish trench warfare, shell fire, 10 million combat deaths, and another 10 million civilian deaths, the world that emerged in 1918 was irrevocably changed. Nation-states came out of the rubble, along with a push for universal rights. New technologies emerged, such as tanks and fighter planes. But something was lost permanently in the Great War: a sense of optimism in mankind. In this series, history professors Scott Rank and James Early look at the 10 key battles that determined the outcome of the war between the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire) and the Allies (Britain, France, Russia, United States).
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Previous episodes
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26 - Key Battles Of World War 1_Special Announcment - Sources Used for WW1 SeriesSun, 24 Sep 2023
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25 - Introducing James Early's New Podcast "Key Battles of American History"Fri, 26 Feb 2021
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24 - 22: The 1919 Paris Peace Conference Laid The First Bricks of the Road to World War TwoTue, 29 Dec 2020
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23 - 23: The Sad Afterlives of WW1's Leaders: The Humbling (and Exiling) of Generals, Emperors, and SultansWed, 30 Dec 2020
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22 - 24: The Eternal Legacy of the First World WarThu, 31 Dec 2020
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21 - 2: Europe's Pre-WW1 Alliances Were a Doomsday Machine That Pulled the Entire Continent Into WarWed, 09 Dec 2020
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20 - 3: Germany So Completely Annihilated Russia At the WW1 Battle of Tannenberg That A Russian General Committed SuicideThu, 10 Dec 2020
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19 - 4: Germany's Plans For Total French Defeat in 1914 Failed at the Battle of the MarneFri, 11 Dec 2020
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18 - 5: The Average WW1 Soldier Was a 110-Pound Villager Who Suffered Disease, Hunger, and PTSDSat, 12 Dec 2020
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17 - 6: World War 1 Trenches Were A Labyrinth of Rats, Disease, Decaying Flesh, and the Omnipresent Threat of DeathSun, 13 Dec 2020
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16 - 7: The Battle of Gallipoli (1915) How Ataturk and the Ottomans Hurled the Allies (Including Winston Churchill) Into the SeaMon, 14 Dec 2020
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15 - 8: How 1915 Became World War One's Year of Poison Gas, Genocide, and Millions of RefugeesTue, 15 Dec 2020
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14 - 9: Verdun - The 299-Day Battle That Killed 300K Soldiers And Still Scars The Earth With Unexploded ShellsWed, 16 Dec 2020
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13 - 10: WW1 At Sea: The Battle of Jutland (1916)Thu, 17 Dec 2020
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12 - 11: The Brusilov Offensive: Russia's Mortal Blow to Austria-HungaryFri, 18 Dec 2020
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11 - 12: The Flying Aces of World War OneSat, 19 Dec 2020
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10 - 13: The Battle of the Somme Caused 1 Million Casualties But Was a Turning Point for WW1Sun, 20 Dec 2020
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9 - 14: Why WW1 Was the Graveyard of Empires (Russian, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian)Mon, 21 Dec 2020
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8 - 15: The Russian Revolutions of 1917-1923--A Bigger Threat Than the Kaiser?Tue, 22 Dec 2020
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7 - 16: The Slog of War -- the Passchendaele Campaign of 1917Wed, 23 Dec 2020
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6 - 18: Tank Warfare--How Military Tech Took a Quantum Leap at the Battle of Cambrai (1917)Fri, 25 Dec 2020
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5 - 17: The Yanks Are Coming -- America Enters World War OneThu, 24 Dec 2020
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4 - 19: The Empire Strikes Back -- Germany's Final Push to Win WW1 in Spring 1918Sat, 26 Dec 2020
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3 - 20: The 1918 Battle of Meggido Shattered the Ottoman Empire and Created the Modern Middle EastSun, 27 Dec 2020
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2 - 21: WW1 Ends with Armistice -- The Moment of Silence That Sounded Like the Voice of GodMon, 28 Dec 2020
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1 - 1: Europe in 1914 Had Absolutely No Idea They Were About To Enter The Most Hellish War EverFri, 02 Oct 2020
