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Gallipoli Campaign
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Also Known As Battle of Cannakkale • Dardanelles Campaign
Date February 16, 1915 - January 9, 1916
Location Dardanelles • Turkey
Participants Australia • France • New Zealand • Ottoman Empire • United Kingdom
Context World War I

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World War I: Eastern Front
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Timeline

British Cavalry at the Battle of Mons
Battle of the Frontiers
August 4, 1914 - September 6, 1914
Western Front in World War I, 1914–18
Battle of Mons
August 23, 1914
Battle of Tannenberg
Battle of Tannenberg
August 26, 1914 - August 30, 1914
World War I
First Battle of the Marne
September 6, 1914 - September 12, 1914
Ypres, Belgium
First Battle of Ypres
October 19, 1914 - November 22, 1914
Battle of Tanga
November 2, 1914 - November 5, 1914
Falkland Islands
Battle of the Falkland Islands
December 8, 1914
Christmas Truce
Christmas Truce
December 24, 1914 - December 25, 1914
World War I: Allied troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula
Gallipoli Campaign
February 16, 1915 - January 9, 1916
The Dardanelles
naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign
February 19, 1915 - March 18, 1915
gas masks at the Second Battle of Ypres
Second Battle of Ypres
April 22, 1915 - May 25, 1915
Battles of the Isonzo
June 23, 1915 - October 24, 1917
Australia and New Zealand Army Corps troops
Battle of Lone Pine
August 6, 1915 - August 10, 1915
Battle of Verdun
Battle of Verdun
February 21, 1916 - December 18, 1916
Battle of Jutland
Battle of Jutland
May 31, 1916 - June 1, 1916
General Aleksey Brusilov
Brusilov Offensive
June 4, 1916 - August 10, 1916
Somme; machine gun
First Battle of the Somme
July 1, 1916 - November 13, 1916
Scene from the Battle of Messines
Battle of Messines
June 7, 1917 - June 14, 1917
June Offensive
July 1, 1917 - c. July 4, 1917
Ypres, Belgium, 1918
Battle of Passchendaele
July 31, 1917 - November 6, 1917
Cadorna, Luigi
Battle of Caporetto
October 24, 1917 - December 19, 1917
tank in the Battle of Cambrai
Battle of Cambrai
November 20, 1917 - December 8, 1917
treaties of Brest-Litovsk
treaties of Brest-Litovsk
February 9, 1918; March 3, 1918
German Prisoners at Belleau Wood
Battle of Belleau Wood
June 1, 1918 - June 26, 1918
Battle of Amiens
August 8, 1918 - August 11, 1918
John J. Pershing
Battle of Saint-Mihiel
September 12, 1918 - September 16, 1918
World War I: British army
Battle of Cambrai
September 27, 1918 - October 11, 1918
Battle of Mons
November 11, 1918

Key People

Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Kemal Atatürk
Kemal Atatürk
president of Turkey
Sir Ian Hamilton
Sir Ian Hamilton
British general
Fevzi Çakmak
Turkish statesman
Otto Liman von Sanders
German general
Sir Charles Monro
British army officer

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