Key Battles of World War One

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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...

Episodes

Key Battles Of World War 1_Special Announcment - Sources Used for WW1 Series

Introducing James Early's New Podcast "Key Battles of American History"

24: The Eternal Legacy of the First World War

23: The Sad Afterlives of WW1's Leaders: The Humbling (and Exiling) of Generals, Emperors, and Sultans

22: The 1919 Paris Peace Conference Laid The First Bricks of the Road to World War Two

21: WW1 Ends with Armistice -- The Moment of Silence That Sounded Like the Voice of God

20: The 1918 Battle of Meggido Shattered the Ottoman Empire and Created the Modern Middle East

19: The Empire Strikes Back -- Germany's Final Push to Win WW1 in Spring 1918

18: Tank Warfare--How Military Tech Took a Quantum Leap at the Battle of Cambrai (1917)

17: The Yanks Are Coming -- America Enters World War One

16: The Slog of War -- the Passchendaele Campaign of 1917

15: The Russian Revolutions of 1917-1923--A Bigger Threat Than the Kaiser?

14: Why WW1 Was the Graveyard of Empires (Russian, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian)

13: The Battle of the Somme Caused 1 Million Casualties But Was a Turning Point for WW1

12: The Flying Aces of World War One

11: The Brusilov Offensive: Russia's Mortal Blow to Austria-Hungary

10: WW1 At Sea: The Battle of Jutland (1916)

9: Verdun - The 299-Day Battle That Killed 300K Soldiers And Still Scars The Earth With Unexploded Shells

8: How 1915 Became World War One's Year of Poison Gas, Genocide, and Millions of Refugees

7: The Battle of Gallipoli (1915) How Ataturk and the Ottomans Hurled the Allies (Including Winston Churchill) Into the Sea