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World War I

July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918

Result Allied Powers victory

Ended by Armistice of Salonica, Armistice of Mudros, Armistice of Villa Giusti, Armistice of 11 November 1918, Armistice of Belgrade, Treaty of Versailles, Treaty of Trianon, Treaty of Sèvres, U.S.–Austrian Peace Treaty (1921), U.S.–German Peace Treaty (1921)

Global war fought 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918 between the Allied and Central Powers, killing an estimated 15–22 million people. Triggered by Gavrilo Princip's assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914, it ended with the 11 November armistice after Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated; the Treaty of Versailles settled the peace and created the League of Nations.

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Battles and events 221

1914 – 1919
Sayfo West Asia
July 28, 1914 – November 24, 1915
Serbian campaign of World War I Serbian victory (1914); Central Powers victory (1915); Allied victory (1918) Kragujevac Franz Joseph I of Austria, Janko Vukotić, Peter I of Serbia
August 1914 – November 11, 1918
German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I German Victory Luxembourg Paul Eyschen, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
August 1914 – July 12, 1919
Blockade of Germany (1914–1919) Allied victory Atlantic Ocean · Mediterranean Sea
August 2, 1914
Skirmish at Joncherey French victory Joncherey
August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918
East African campaign (World War I) Allied victory Jan Smuts, Jacob van Deventer, Arthur Reginald Hoskins
August 3, 1914 – November 23, 1918
African theatre of World War I Allied victory Cameroon Jafar al-Askari, Daniel Edward Howard, Louis Botha
August 3, 1914 – January 5, 1919
Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I Allied victory Alexei Kuropatkin, Christopher Cradock, Katō Sadakichi
August 4 – October 31, 1914
German invasion of Belgium (1914) German victory Belgium John French, Alexander von Kluck, Karl von Bülow
August 4–10, 1914
Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau German victory Mediterranean Sea
August 4, 1914
British declaration of war upon Germany (1914) London
August 5–16, 1914
Battle of Liège Battle of Liège Erich Ludendorff, Otto von Emmich, Gérard Leman
August 7–10, 1914
Battle of Mulhouse German victory Mulhouse Josias von Heeringen, Augustin Dubail
August 14 – September 7, 1914
Battle of Lorraine German victory Battle of Lorraine Ferdinand Foch, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen
August 16, 1914
Battle of Antivari Anglo-French victory Adriatic Sea
August 17 – September 14, 1914
Russian invasion of East Prussia (1914) East Prussia Paul von Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia
August 20, 1914
Battle of Gumbinnen Russian victory Battle of Gumbinnen Paul von Rennenkampf, Maximilian von Prittwitz, August von Mackensen
August 21–23, 1914
Battle of the Ardennes German victory Battle of the Ardennes Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, Pierre Ruffey
August 21–23, 1914
Battle of Charleroi German victory Battle of Charleroi Joseph Joffre, Karl von Bülow, Max von Hausen
August 22, 1914
Sinking of SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse British victory Río de Oro
August 23, 1914
Battle of Mons Battle of Mons John French, Alexander von Kluck, Horace Smith-Dorrien
August 23 – September 11, 1914
Battle of Galicia Russian victory Full results Battle of Galicia Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Nikolay Ivanov
August 26–30, 1914
Battle of Tannenberg German victory Tannenberg, East Prussia Paul von Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff, Alexander Samsonov
August 26, 1914
Battle of Le Cateau German victory Battle of Le Cateau Horace Smith-Dorrien, Friedrich Sixt von Armin, Georg von der Marwitz
August 26, 1914
Battle of the Trouée de Charmes French victory Charmes Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Édouard de Castelnau
August 28, 1914
Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) British victory Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) Franz von Hipper, Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet, Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
August 29–30, 1914
Battle of Guise French victory Battle of Guise Karl von Bülow, Charles Lanrezac
September 1, 1914
Affair of Néry British victory Néry
September 5–12, 1914
First Battle of the Marne Entente victory Marne river, France Joseph Joffre, Ferdinand Foch, Joseph Gallieni
September 6 – October 4, 1914
Battle of the Drina Inconclusive Drina Stepa Stepanović, Pavle Jurišić Šturm, Liborius Ritter von Frank
September 7–14, 1914
First Battle of the Masurian Lakes German victory First Battle of the Masurian Lakes Paul von Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff, Paul von Rennenkampf
September 7, 1914
Fanning Raid German victory Tabuaeran Maximilian von Spee
September 13–28, 1914
First Battle of the Aisne Indecisive First Battle of the Aisne Joseph Joffre, John French, Alexander von Kluck
September 16, 1914 – March 22, 1915
Siege of Przemyśl Russian victoryFull results Siege of Przemyśl Radko Dimitriev, Svetozar Boroević, Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten
September 20, 1914
Battle of Zanzibar German victory
September 22, 1914
Action of 22 September 1914 German victory Broad Fourteens
September 22, 1914
Bombardment of Papeete German victory Papeete Maximilian von Spee
September 22, 1914
Bombardment of Madras German victory
September 26, 1914
Battle of Sandfontein German victory Namibia
September 28 – October 10, 1914
Siege of Antwerp (1914) German victory Siege of Antwerp (1914) Albert I of Belgium, Hans Hartwig von Beseler, Victor Deguise
September 29 – October 31, 1914
Battle of the Vistula River Russian victory Paul von Hindenburg, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia
October 1–4, 1914
Battle of Arras (1914) Indecisive Arras Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria
October 1914 – July 11, 1915
Battle of the Rufiji Delta British victory Rufiji River
October 12 – November 2, 1914
Battle of Messines (1914) Inconclusive Bikschote Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria
October 16–31, 1914
Battle of the Yser Allied victory Battle of the Yser Albert I of Belgium, Émile Dossin de Saint-Georges, Augustin Édouard Michel du Faing d'Aigremont
October 17, 1914
Battle off Texel North Sea
October 19 – November 22, 1914
First Battle of Ypres Indecisive Ypres, Belgium Joseph Joffre, Ferdinand Foch, Erich von Falkenhayn
October 28, 1914
Battle of Penang German victory Strait of Malacca
October 29, 1914 – October 30, 1918
Middle Eastern theatre of World War I Allied victory Central Asia · Middle East Enver Pasha, Djemal Pasha, Archibald James Murray
October 31 – November 15, 1914
Battle of Kraków (1914) Indecisive Kraków Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Nikolay Ivanov, Alexei Evert
November 1, 1914
Battle of Coronel German victory Pacific Ocean Christopher Cradock, Maximilian von Spee
November 2, 1914 – October 30, 1918
Caucasus campaign Erzurum Nicholas II of Russia, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Enver Pasha
November 2–5, 1914
Battle of Tanga German victory Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Tom Prince, Arthur Aitken
November 2–17, 1914
Bergmann Offensive Ottoman victory Erzurum vilayet Enver Pasha, Nikolai Yudenich, Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov
November 3, 1914
Raid on Yarmouth Inconclusive Great Yarmouth Franz von Hipper, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
November 9, 1914
Battle of Cocos Australian victory Cocos (Keeling) Islands
November 11 – December 6, 1914
Battle of Łódź (1914) Battle of Łódź (1914) Paul von Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff, Paul von Rennenkampf
November 16 – December 15, 1914
Battle of Kolubara Serbian victory Kolubara Radomir Putnik, Stepa Stepanović, Pavle Jurišić Šturm
November 18, 1914
Battle of Cape Sarych Russian victory
December 1–13, 1914
Battle of Limanowa Central Powers victory Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Radko Dimitriev, Svetozar Boroević
December 1914 – March 1915
Carpathian Campaign Russian victory Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Radko Dimitriev, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli
December 8, 1914
Battle of the Falkland Islands British victory Falkland Islands Maximilian von Spee
December 16, 1914
Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby German victory Whitby Franz von Hipper, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
December 22, 1914 – January 17, 1915
Battle of Sarikamish Russian victory Enver Pasha, Nikolai Yudenich, Hafiz Hakki Pasha
December 22, 1914
Winter operations 1914–1915 Inconclusive Neuve-Chapelle Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria
December 22–25, 1914
Battle of Łowczówek Inconclusive Łowczówek Józef Piłsudski, Radko Dimitriev
December 25, 1914
Raid on Cuxhaven Cuxhaven
1915 – 1918
Otranto Barrage
January 1915
Chilembwe uprising Rebellion suppressed
January 17, 1915
Battle of Jarrab Jabal Shammar victory Ibn Saud
January 18–19, 1915
Battle of Jassin German victory Jassin Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
January 24, 1915
Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) British victory Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) Franz von Hipper, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
January 26 – February 4, 1915
Raid on the Suez Canal British victory Djemal Pasha, Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein
January 31, 1915
Battle of Humin-Bolimów Inconclusive Bolimów Paul von Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff, August von Mackensen
February 7–22, 1915
Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes German victory Masurian Lake District Paul von Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff, Hermann von Eichhorn
February 19, 1915 – January 9, 1916
Gallipoli campaign Ottoman victory Gallipoli peninsula Winston Churchill, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Enver Pasha
March 10–13, 1915
Battle of Neuve Chapelle Battle of Neuve Chapelle John French, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria
March 14, 1915
Battle of Más a Tierra British victory Robinson Crusoe Island
April 22 – May 25, 1915
Second Battle of Ypres Second Battle of Ypres Horace Smith-Dorrien, Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, Arthur Currie
April 25–26, 1915
Landing at Cape Helles Ottoman victory Landing at Cape Helles Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Halil Sami Bey
April 25 – May 3, 1915
Landing at Anzac Cove Landing at Anzac Cove Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood
April 26, 1915
Treaty of London (1915) London
April 28, 1915
First Battle of Krithia Ottoman victory Alçıtepe Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Halil Sami Bey
May 1, 1915
Action off Noordhinder Bank
May 2 – June 22, 1915
Gorlice–Tarnów offensive Central Powers victory Gorlice–Tarnów offensive Erich von Falkenhayn, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia
May 6–8, 1915
Second Battle of Krithia Ottoman victory Alçıtepe Otto Liman von Sanders, Aylmer Hunter-Weston
May 7, 1915
Sinking of the RMS Lusitania Off the Old Head of Kinsale Woodrow Wilson
May 10, 1915
Action of 10 May 1915 Indecisive Black Sea
May 23–24, 1915
Bombardment of Ancona Austro-Hungarian victory Province of Ancona
May 27, 1915
Battle of Festubert German victory Festubert Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria
June 1915
Bussa rebellion British victory Colonial Nigeria
June 4, 1915
Third Battle of Krithia Ottoman victory Gallipoli Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Halil Sami Bey
June 21–23, 1915
Battle of Bukoba British victory Bukoba
June 23 – July 7, 1915
First Battle of the Isonzo Limited Italian advance First Battle of the Isonzo Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Svetozar Boroević, Luigi Cadorna
July 1915 – August 1916
Battle of Bitlis Russian victory Bitlis Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nikolai Yudenich, Ahmed Izzet Pasha
July 2, 1915
Battle of Gotland Anglo-Russian victory Åland
July 13 – August 28, 1915
Vistula–Bug offensive Central Powers’ victory August von Mackensen, Nikolay Ivanov, Mikhail Alekseyev
August 6–21, 1915
Battle of Sari Bair Ottoman victory Battle of Sari Bair Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Otto Liman von Sanders, Ian Hamilton
August 6–15, 1915
Landing at Suvla Bay Ottoman victory Landing at Suvla Bay Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Otto Liman von Sanders, Cevat Çobanlı
August 8–19, 1915
Battle of the Gulf of Riga Entente victory Gulf of Riga Franz von Hipper
August 17 – September 19, 1915
Great Retreat (Russia) Central Powers victory Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Nicholas II of Russia, Wilhelm II, Paul von Hindenburg
September 24, 1915
Baralong incidents Irish Sea
September 25 – November 6, 1915
Second Battle of Champagne German victory Champagne, France Joseph Joffre, Erich von Falkenhayn, Philippe Pétain
September 25 – November 4, 1915
Third Battle of Artois Artois, France John French, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Victor d'Urbal
October 21, 1915 – September 30, 1918
Macedonian front Allied victory August von Mackensen, Bryan Mahon, Petar Bojović
November 1915 – February 1917
Volta-Bani War French victory
November 22–25, 1915
Battle of Ctesiphon (1915) Inconclusive Battle of Ctesiphon (1915) Charles Townshend, Sakallı Nureddin Paşa, Halil Kut
November 25, 1915 – January 18, 1916
Great Retreat (Serbia) Serbia
December 7, 1915 – April 29, 1916
Siege of Kut Ottoman victory Siege of Kut Charles Townshend, Harold Courtenay Armstrong, Sakallı Nureddin Paşa
December 17, 1915
Battle of Robat Karim Russian victory Robat Karim Ahmad Shah Qajar
December 28–29, 1915
Battle of Durazzo (1915) Allied victory Adriatic Sea
1916 – 1934
Basmachi movement Russian Turkestan
1916 – 1917
Kaocen revolt French victory Niger
January 5–17, 1916
Montenegrin campaign Kingdom of Montenegro
January 6–7, 1916
Battle of Mojkovac Montenegrin victory Mojkovac Janko Vukotić
January 10 – February 16, 1916
Erzurum offensive Russian victoryFull results Erzurum Nikolai Yudenich, Abdul Kerim Pasha
February 5 – April 15, 1916
Trebizond Campaign Russian victory Ottoman Empire Nikolai Yudenich, Mehmet Vehip Kaçı
February 10, 1916
Battle of Dogger Bank (1916) Dogger Bank
February 12, 1916
Battle of Salaita Hill German victory
February 21 – December 18, 1916
Battle of Verdun French victory Verdun, France Paul von Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff, Joseph Joffre
February 29, 1916
Action of 29 February 1916 British victory North Sea
March 16 – November 6, 1916
Invasion of Darfur (1916) Anglo-Egyptian victory Darfur
March 18 – April 14, 1916
Lake Naroch offensive German victory Lake Naroch offensive Alexei Kuropatkin, Hermann von Eichhorn, Alexei Evert
April 24, 1916
Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft Inconclusive North Sea John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
April 27–29, 1916
Gas attacks at Hulluch British victory Hulluch
May 15 – June 10, 1916
Battle of Asiago Italian victory (counter-offensive phase) Battle of Asiago Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Luigi Cadorna, Pietro Frugoni
May 16, 1916
Sykes–Picot Agreement London François Georges-Picot, Mark Sykes
May 31 – June 1, 1916
Battle of Jutland Jutland John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Franz von Hipper, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
June 4 – September 20, 1916
Brusilov Offensive Russian victoryFull results Lutsk sector, present-day Ukraine Nicholas II of Russia, Paul von Hindenburg, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
July 1 – November 18, 1916
Battle of the Somme Inconclusive Somme, France Paul von Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff, Hubert Gough
July 2–25, 1916
Battle of Erzincan Russian victory Nikolai Yudenich, Mehmet Vehip Kaçı, Hasan İzzet Paşa
July 4–6, 1916
Battle of Kostiuchnówka Inconclusive Kostiukhnivka Józef Piłsudski
July 23 – August 7, 1916
Battle of Pozières Allied victory Pozières Hubert Gough, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood
August 3–5, 1916
Battle of Romani British Empire victory Battle of Romani Archibald James Murray, Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, Herbert Lawrence
August 6–17, 1916
Battle of Gorizia (1916) Italian victory Battle of Gorizia (1916) Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Svetozar Boroević, Luigi Cadorna
August 19, 1916
Action of 19 August 1916 Indecisive North Sea John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Franz von Hipper, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
August 27 – November 26, 1916
Battle of Transylvania Central Powers victory Full results Transylvania Alexandru Averescu, Erich von Falkenhayn, Arthur Arz von Straußenburg
September 9, 1916
Battle of Ginchy British victory Ginchy Ferdinand Foch, Émile Fayolle, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
October 26–27, 1916
Battle of Dover Strait (1916) Strait of Dover
November 25 – December 3, 1916
Battle of Bucharest Central Powers victory Battle of Bucharest Erich von Falkenhayn, August von Mackensen, Constantin Prezan
December 1, 1916
Noemvriana Ioannis Metaxas, Anastasios Papoulas
December 23, 1916
Battle of Magdhaba British victory Sinai Peninsula Harry Chauvel
1917 – January 1, 1918
Sixtus Affair Charles I of Austria
January 5–11, 1917
Christmas Battles Russian victory Radko Dimitriev, Nikolai Ruzsky, Friedrich von Scholtz
January 9, 1917
Battle of Rafa British victory Sinai Peninsula Philip Chetwode
January 16 – March 1, 1917
Zimmermann Telegram Berlin Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Zimmermann
March 16, 1917
Action of 16 March 1917 British victory
March 20, 1917
Operation Alberich German success Picardy Erich Ludendorff, Hubert Gough, Robert Nivelle
March 26, 1917
First Battle of Gaza Central Powers victory First Battle of Gaza Djemal Pasha, Philip Chetwode, Archibald James Murray
April 6, 1917
United States declaration of war on Germany (1917) Washington, D.C.
April 9–12, 1917
Battle of Vimy Ridge British Empire victory Battle of Vimy Ridge Ludwig von Falkenhausen, Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
April 9 – May 16, 1917
Battle of Arras (1917) Battle of Arras (1917) Erich Ludendorff, Hubert Gough, Ludwig von Falkenhausen
April 16 – May 9, 1917
Nivelle offensive Indecisive Nivelle offensive Erich Ludendorff, Robert Nivelle, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
April 20, 1917
Battle of Dover Strait (1917) British victory Strait of Dover
May 4, 1917
Action of 4 May 1917 Indecisive North Sea
May 14–15, 1917
Battle of the Strait of Otranto (1917) Strait of Otranto Miklós Horthy
June 1917 – October 1917
Operation Hush Cancelled Nieuwpoort Friedrich Sixt von Armin, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson
June 7–14, 1917
Battle of Messines (1917) British victory Battle of Messines (1917) Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, Friedrich Sixt von Armin, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
June 10–25, 1917
Battle of Mount Ortigara Austro-Hungarian victory Asiago Luigi Cadorna, Arthur Arz von Straußenburg
July 1–19, 1917
Kerensky offensive Central Powers victory Kerensky offensive Lavr Kornilov, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli
July 31 – November 10, 1917
Battle of Passchendaele Passchendaele, Belgium Erich Ludendorff, Hubert Gough, Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
August 15–25, 1917
Battle of Hill 70 Allied victory Lens Arthur Currie, Otto von Below
August 18 – September 12, 1917
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo Italian tactical victory Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo Svetozar Boroević, Luigi Cadorna, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta
September 1–3, 1917
Riga offensive (1917) German victory Riga offensive (1917) Oskar von Hutier, Georg Bruchmüller
September 29 – October 20, 1917
Operation Albion German victory Baltic Sea Hugo von Kathen, Oskar von Hutier, Ludwig von Estorff
October 15–18, 1917
Battle of Mahiwa Indecisive Mahiwa Jacob van Deventer, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Kurt Wahle
October 17, 1917
Action off Lerwick German victory Lerwick
October 19 – November 3, 1917
Battle of Moon Sound German victory Baltic Sea
October 24 – November 19, 1917
Battle of Caporetto Central Powers victory Kobarid, Slovenia Svetozar Boroević, Luigi Cadorna, Archduke Eugen of Austria
October 31, 1917
Battle of Beersheba (1917) Allied victory Battle of Beersheba (1917) İsmet İnönü, Fevzi Çakmak, Philip Chetwode
November 1–2, 1917
Third Battle of Gaza Allied victory Third Battle of Gaza Erich von Falkenhayn, Edward Bulfin, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
November 17 – December 30, 1917
Battle of Jerusalem (1917) Allied victoryEnd of the Ottoman rule in Jerusalem and Palestine Battle of Jerusalem (1917) Erich von Falkenhayn, Djemal Pasha, Edward Bulfin
November 17, 1917
Second Battle of Heligoland Bight Indecisive Heligoland
November 20 – December 7, 1917
Battle of Cambrai (1917) Battle of Cambrai (1917) Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, William Pulteney
November 25, 1917
Battle of Ngomano German victory Negomano Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
December 7, 1917
United States declaration of war on Austria-Hungary Washington, D.C. Woodrow Wilson
December 9, 1917
Armistice of Focșani Focșani, Kingdom of Romania
December 12, 1917
Action of 11–12 December 1917 German victory North Sea Reinhard Scheer
December 15, 1917
Armistice between Russia and the Central Powers Brest-Litovsk
January 27 – May 15, 1918
Finnish Civil War Finnish Whites victory Finland Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Ernst Linder
February 1918 – May 1918
Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet Transfer of the Baltic Fleet to Soviet-controlled harbours. Baltic Sea
February 9, 1918
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Ukraine–Central Powers) Brest
February 10, 1918
Bakar mockery Italian propaganda victory Bakar
February 15–16, 1918
Battle of Rarańcza Polish victory
February 18 – March 3, 1918
Operation Faustschlag Central Powers victory Belarus Erich von Falkenhayn, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli
March 3, 1918
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Brest-Litovsk Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky
March 21 – April 5, 1918
Operation Michael Operation Michael Erich Ludendorff, Hubert Gough, Ferdinand Foch
March 21 – July 18, 1918
German spring offensive West Flanders Paul von Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff, Ferdinand Foch
March 30, 1918 – November 28, 1920
Armenian–Azerbaijani war (1918–1920) Inconclusive; Soviet invasion of Armenia and Azerbaijan and subsequent Soviet victory Armenia Cevat Çobanlı, Andranik Ozanian, Samad bey Mehmandarov
March 30, 1918
Battle of Moreuil Wood Arve Erich Ludendorff, J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone
April 9–29, 1918
Battle of the Lys (1918) Battle of the Lys (1918) Manuel Gomes da Costa, Philippe Pétain, Albert I of Belgium
April 23, 1918
Zeebrugge Raid German victory Zeebrugge John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
April 24–27, 1918
Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux Allied victory Villers-Bretonneux Erich Ludendorff, Ferdinand Foch, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
April 30 – May 4, 1918
Second Battle of the Jordan Ottoman victory Jordan Valley Enver Pasha, Otto Liman von Sanders, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
May 7, 1918
Treaty of Bucharest (1918) Buftea
May 9, 1918
Second Ostend Raid German victory Ostend Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
May 10–11, 1918
Battle of Kaniów German victory
May 22–29, 1918
Battle of Sardarabad Armenian victory Sardarapat Kâzım Karabekir, Mehmet Vehip Kaçı
May 27 – June 6, 1918
Third Battle of the Aisne Third Battle of the Aisne Erich Ludendorff, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Denis Auguste Duchêne
May 28, 1918
Battle of Cantigny Allied victory Battle of Cantigny Oskar von Hutier, Robert Lee Bullard
May 29–31, 1918
Battle of Skra-di-Legen Allied victory Skra Adolphe Guillaumat
June 1–26, 1918
Battle of Belleau Wood Allied victory Battle of Belleau Wood John J. Pershing, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Jean-Marie Degoutte
June 15–23, 1918
Second Battle of the Piave River Italian victory Second Battle of the Piave River Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Armando Diaz, Svetozar Boroević
July 1918
Sochi conflict Inconclusive Abkhazia Anton Denikin, Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein
July 4, 1918
Battle of Hamel Allied victory Le Hamel Georg von der Marwitz, John Monash
July 15 – August 6, 1918
Second Battle of the Marne Entente victory Marne river, France Erich Ludendorff, John J. Pershing, Ferdinand Foch
July 18, 1918
Battle of Château-Thierry (1918) Allied victory Château-Thierry Erich Ludendorff, John J. Pershing
August 8–12, 1918
Battle of Amiens (1918) Allied victory Battle of Amiens (1918) Paul von Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff, Ferdinand Foch
August 8 – November 11, 1918
Hundred Days Offensive Allied victory Western Front Paul von Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff, Wilhelm Groener
August 13 – September 3, 1918
Battle of San Matteo Italian victory (13 August) Punta San Matteo
August 26 – September 14, 1918
Battle of Baku Central Powers victory Baku Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Nuri Killigil, Mürsel Bakü
September 12–15, 1918
Battle of Saint-Mihiel Allied victory Saint-Mihiel salient, France Douglas MacArthur, John J. Pershing, Hunter Liggett
September 15, 1918
Battle of Dobro Pole Allied victory Novaci Municipality Stepa Stepanović, Petar Bojović, Georgi Todorov
September 19–25, 1918
Battle of Megiddo (1918) Allied victory Battle of Megiddo (1918) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Faisal I of Iraq, Edward Bulfin
September 26 – November 11, 1918
Meuse–Argonne offensive Allied victory Meuse-Argonne, France Paul von Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff, John J. Pershing
September 27, 1918
Battle of Jisr Benat Yakub Allied victory Jordan River Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Otto Liman von Sanders, Cevat Çobanlı
September 29 – October 2, 1918
Battle of the St Quentin Canal Allied victory Battle of the St Quentin Canal Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, John Monash, Walter Braithwaite
October 8–10, 1918
Battle of Cambrai (1918) Allied victory Cambrai Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, Arthur Currie, Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson
October 23–30, 1918
Battle of Sharqat British–Assyrian victory Battle of Sharqat Alexander Cobbe, Malik Yaqo, İsmail Hakkı Okday
October 24 – November 3, 1918
Battle of Vittorio Veneto Italian victory Battle of Vittorio Veneto Armando Diaz, Svetozar Boroević, Archduke Joseph August of Austria
November 4, 1918
Battle of the Sambre (1918) Allied victory Sambre

Key commanders

Allies 132

Nicholas II of Russia Emperor, Russia George V King, United Kingdom Woodrow Wilson President, United States Emperor Taishō belligerent leader Joseph Joffre Marshal of France, Commander-in-Chief of the French Army (1914–1916) Raymond Poincaré belligerent leader Georges Clemenceau David Lloyd George Ferdinand Foch John French Field Marshal, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (1914–1915) Robert Nivelle General, Commander of the French Second Army; French Commander-in-Chief (1916–1917) Philippe Pétain General, Commander at Verdun; French Commander-in-Chief (1917) Hubert Gough Commander, Reserve Army Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby military commander Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig military commander Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson military commander Joseph Gallieni military commander Fernand de Langle de Cary military commander Louis Franchet d'Espèrey military commander Michel-Joseph Maunoury military commander Albert I of Belgium military commander John J. Pershing military commander Paul Maistre military commander Émile Fayolle military commander Jean-Marie Degoutte military commander Henri Gouraud military commander Victor d'Urbal military commander Douglas MacArthur military commander Hunter Liggett military commander Joseph Theodore Dickman military commander Robert Lee Bullard military commander Édouard de Castelnau military commander Adolphe Guillaumat military commander Winston Churchill First Lord of the Admiralty Ian Hamilton military commander John de Robeck military commander Alexander Samsonov military commander Yakov Zhilinskiy military commander Vladimir Lenin Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, Insisted on accepting German terms to end the war Leon Trotsky People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Led the Soviet delegation; broke off talks with 'no war, no peace' John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe military commander David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty military commander Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer military commander Aleksey Brusilov military commander Mikhail Alekseyev military commander Mikhail Diterikhs military commander Luigi Cadorna military commander Luigi Capello military commander Gérard Leman military commander Augustin Dubail military commander Pierre Ruffey military commander Charles Lanrezac military commander Horace Smith-Dorrien military commander Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet military commander Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes military commander Victor Deguise military commander Émile Dossin de Saint-Georges military commander Augustin Édouard Michel du Faing d'Aigremont military commander Arthur Currie military commander Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy military commander Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne military commander William Pulteney military commander Manuel Gomes da Costa military commander Denis Auguste Duchêne military commander Alexander Hamilton-Gordon military commander James Harbord military commander John Monash military commander Walter Braithwaite military commander Paul von Rennenkampf military commander Nikolay Ivanov military commander Anton von Saltza military commander Alexei Evert military commander Nikolai Ruzsky military commander Radko Dimitriev military commander Andrey Selivanov military commander Sergei Sheydeman military commander Samad bey Mehmandarov military commander Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia military commander Alexei Kuropatkin military commander Constantin Prezan military commander Lavr Kornilov military commander Pietro Frugoni military commander Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta military commander Roberto Brusati military commander Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi military commander Armando Diaz military commander Aylmer Hunter-Weston military commander William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood military commander Frederick Stopford military commander Archibald James Murray military commander Herbert Lawrence military commander Harry Chauvel military commander Philip Chetwode military commander Charles Macpherson Dobell military commander Edward Chaytor military commander Edward Bulfin military commander Faisal I of Iraq military commander Charles Townshend military commander Harold Courtenay Armstrong military commander Alexander Cobbe military commander Malik Yaqo military commander William Marshall military commander Janko Vukotić military commander Peter I of Serbia military commander Alexander I of Yugoslavia military commander Radomir Putnik military commander Stepa Stepanović military commander Petar Bojović military commander Pavle Jurišić Šturm military commander Živojin Mišić military commander Bryan Mahon military commander Maurice Sarrail military commander Nikolai Yudenich military commander Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov military commander Andranik Ozanian military commander Georgy Berkhman military commander Jan Smuts military commander Jacob van Deventer military commander Arthur Reginald Hoskins military commander Arthur Aitken military commander Richard Wapshare military commander Michael Tighe military commander Christopher Cradock military commander Antonin de Selliers de Moranville military commander Daniel Edward Howard belligerent leader Louis Botha belligerent leader Félix Fuchs military commander Katō Sadakichi military commander Kamio Mitsuomi military commander Nikolai Baratov military commander J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone military commander Ibn Saud military commander

Central Powers 106

Wilhelm II Emperor, Germany Paul von Hindenburg Commander, German Eighth Army Erich Ludendorff Mehmed V Sultan, Ottoman Empire Mehmed VI Sultan, Ottoman Empire Franz Joseph I of Austria belligerent leader Charles I of Austria Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Commander, Ottoman forces at Gallipoli Helmuth von Moltke the Younger Chief of the German General Staff, Germany (1914) Erich von Falkenhayn Chief of the German General Staff, Germany (1914–1916) Alexander von Kluck Generaloberst, Commander of the German First Army Enver Pasha Minister of War, Ottoman Empire; de facto Commander-in-Chief Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf Field Marshal, Chief of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria military commander Max von Gallwitz military commander Karl von Bülow military commander Max von Hausen military commander Wilhelm, German Crown Prince military commander Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg military commander Karl von Einem military commander Bruno von Mudra military commander Georg Fuchs military commander Eduard von Below military commander Otto Liman von Sanders military commander Cevat Çobanlı military commander Mehmet Esat Bülkat military commander Max Hoffmann military commander Hermann von François military commander Franz von Hipper military commander Reinhard Scheer military commander Friedrich Sixt von Armin military commander Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli military commander Felix Graf von Bothmer military commander Archduke Joseph Ferdinand, Hereditary Grand Duke of Tuscany military commander Svetozar Boroević military commander Archduke Eugen of Austria military commander Otto von Below military commander Otto von Emmich military commander Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen military commander Josias von Heeringen military commander Georg von der Marwitz military commander Leberecht Maass military commander Hans Hartwig von Beseler military commander Ludwig von Falkenhausen military commander Otto von Moser military commander Hugo von Kathen military commander Ferdinand von Quast military commander Oskar von Hutier military commander Richard von Conta military commander Hans Carl Adolph von Carlowitz military commander Maximilian von Prittwitz military commander August von Mackensen military commander Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen military commander Viktor Dankl von Krasnik military commander Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten military commander Hans von Seeckt military commander Hermann von Eichhorn military commander Prince Leopold of Bavaria military commander Georg Bruchmüller military commander Arthur Arz von Straußenburg military commander Archduke Joseph August of Austria military commander Alexander von Krobatin military commander Halil Sami Bey military commander Faik Pasha military commander Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein military commander Djemal Pasha military commander Rüştü Sakarya military commander İsmet İnönü military commander Fevzi Çakmak military commander Ali Fuat Cebesoy military commander Sakallı Nureddin Paşa military commander Halil Kut military commander Kâzım Karabekir military commander İsmail Hakkı Okday military commander Ferdinand I of Bulgaria military commander Nikola Zhekov military commander Oskar Potiorek military commander Georgi Todorov military commander Kliment Boyadzhiev military commander Friedrich von Scholtz military commander Abdul Kerim Pasha military commander Mehmet Vehip Kaçı military commander Ahmed Izzet Pasha military commander Nuri Killigil military commander Hafiz Hakki Pasha military commander Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorf military commander Hasan İzzet Paşa military commander Topal Osman military commander Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck military commander Heinrich Schnee military commander Kurt Wahle military commander Tom Prince military commander Maximilian von Spee military commander Pehr Evind Svinhufvud belligerent leader Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim participant Ernst Linder military commander Liborius Ritter von Frank military commander Ludwig von Estorff military commander Ali-Agha Shikhlinski military commander Mürsel Bakü military commander Józef Piłsudski military commander Samad bey Mehmandarov military commander Khosrov bey Sultanov military commander Jafar al-Askari military commander Christiaan de Wet military commander Miklós Horthy military commander

Germany 6

Paul von Hindenburg military commander Erich Ludendorff military commander Wilhelm Groener military commander Wilhelm, German Crown Prince military commander Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria military commander Max von Gallwitz military commander

Luxembourg 2

Paul Eyschen belligerent leader Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg military commander

First Republic of Armenia 1

Andranik Ozanian military commander

Russian SFSR 1

Ivan Tyulenev military commander

Kingdom of Romania 2

Alexandru Averescu military commander Constantin Prezan military commander

Montenegro 1

Janko Vukotić military commander

Greece 2

Ioannis Metaxas military commander Anastasios Papoulas military commander

German Empire and allies 1

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck military commander

Whites 1

Anton Denikin military commander

Iran 1

Ahmad Shah Qajar belligerent leader

Other 3

François Georges-Picot signatory, French negotiator of the agreement Mark Sykes signatory, British negotiator of the agreement Arthur Zimmermann German Foreign Secretary, sent the telegram