7 Battle of Death During World War

World War will be remembered as one of the bloodiest wars in human history. Millions of dead soldiers on both sides, and almost destroyed an entire generation of youth. Soldiers who are stuck in the trenches penetrated, causing thousands to die in vain attacks against enemy fortified with forts. The war also introduced a new and terrible weapons, like machine guns, which made war more terrible and deadly. Here are 7 Battle of Death During World War, namely:

1. Battle of Tannenberg (182 000 victims) 

After the failed invasion of Russia in East Prussia, Russia managed to inflict defeat of Germany in Gumbinnen and make it back toward Barat.Jerman quickly move and consolidate the German 8th Army to stop the forward movement of Russia.

Although outnumbered, the two areas filled with Russians, Germans succeeded in causing the defeat of the Russians at Tannenberg, regarded by some as the most crushing defeat in the war. Russia suffered 170,000 casualties and the Germans 12,000, highlighting the stupidity and ineffectiveness of the Russian commander of Russian troops.

2. Battle of Arras (278 000 victims) 

In 1917, the Western Front was at a stalemate for two years. Many bloody battles, including a slaughterhouse in Verdun and the Somme, has resulted in millions of casualties on both sides, and Europe have tired of the war. Allied high command is required to break the German front line of defense. Now numerically inferior German army, and a solid victory breaking the German lines can easily end the war.

As a result, a plan was formed to attack the German trenches in the town of Arras, which combined with the French attack to the South, is expected to break the deadlock on the Western Front and bring the Allies victory. Battle of Arras began on April 9, 1917, and early efforts led to the arrest of the strategically important Vimy Ridge by Canadian forces and huge profits by British forces in the middle.However, when the battle closed on May 16, 1917, British troops keemajuan was stopped. Although the British tactical victory, the battle does not produce a breakthrough means that diharapkan.Inggris lost 158,000 soldiers in the attack, and Germany 120 000 deaths.

3. Battle of Gallipoli (473 000 victims) 

In 1915, the war in the west has stalled. Both sides have built a large network of trenches and lost many soldiers in futile attacks against fortified enemy positions.In addition, the shock defeat at Tannenberg has made Russia back to back, risking the Allies lost a valuable contributor to the war effort.
With a high number of casualties, the Allies decided to bet, for the sake of opening a second front.

Sir Winston Churchill, the first leader of the Navy, decided to attack on theDardanelles on the day of modern Turkey to threaten the Ottoman capital of Constantinople.
The allies hoped the front of the two would help break the deadlock on the Western Front, and bring relief to the beleaguered Russians to open a sea route to supply assistance.

When the initial naval attack failed, the Allies decided to destroy the amphibious attack the Ottoman army. The allies believe that Turkey will just fold and collapse with minimal casualties (the Ottoman Empire called "the sick man of Europe" at the time and viewed as a weak force. However, the opposite happened. The Turks dug in and refused, the Allied landings stymieing These results ,. along with poor planning on the part of the Allied commander, Allied forces are bogged down on the beach and failed to achieve their goals, and finally stuck to the Gallipoli front in the same trench warfare as seen on the Western Front, Britain, Australia and New Zealand troops clashed with Turkey, trying to get out of their marine bunkers. allies eventually lost 220,000 people and 253,000, and the Ottoman Empire acquire a stunning victory.

Note: The Gallipoli Campaign said the time when Australia and New Zealand began to see themselves as a unique and separate country from England, from stories about the courage of Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC).

4. First Battle of Marnes (483 000 victims) 

In early September 1914, German troops crush Belgium and pushing through France, threatening Paris. British and French troops have taken casualties trying to stop the Germans, and it seems that Paris would fall to German forces. Desperate to stop the German attack, the British and French Marnes consolidation of the river, outside Paris.

Allies finally able to stop and pushed Germany to France in a counterattack against the Germans by six French soldiers and an army field UK, which caused casualties to the Germans and forced them to abandon plans Schliffen and backward, in the case came to be known as the "Miracle on Marnes ". Although the Allies win, this battle is extremely expensive, the Allies 263,000 casualties soul, and the Germans 220,000. In addition, the battle forced the Germans back and then consolidated and began to build the fort, led the Allies to respond and lead them to bloody trench warfare that makes characterize the battle on the Western Front.

5. Serbia War (633 500 victims) 

Nearly every school child knows that World War I begins when Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princep.
They also know that shortly thereafter, Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia, led Russia declared war on Austria-Hungary and then Germany declared war on Russia, and then so on and so forth.

Campaigns Serbia with Austria began with the shelling of Belgrade on July 29, 1914, followed by a military invasion of Serbia on 12 August. Although outnumbered, Serbia managed to blunt the invasion of Austria for much of 1914 and into 1915, when Germany and Bulgaria joined with Austria in an attempt to conquer Serbia and launching new attacks, culminating in the Battle of Kosovo in November and December 1915, in which soldiers Serbia was finally destroyed and the Serbs suffered mass destruction. The campaign was extremely bloody for both sides, with Austria, Germany and Bulgaria combined loss of 313 500 victims, and Serbia lost more than 320,000 soldiers.

6. Battle of Passchendaele (848 614 victims) 

Also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, the purpose of the battle to break through the village of Passchendaele in West Flanders, Belgium to encircle and beat back the Germans. In a series of operations "bite and hold" the line against the Germans, the Allies sought to use the tactic against Germany through a bloody war of attrition, culminating when Canadian forces took control of Passchendaele on November 6, 1917, ending the battle.

Conditions During the battle was very sad; both sides suffered terrible casualties, theUK benefits only get a fraction of new areas for Their Efforts. Mud is a common sightin the atmosphere of the battle, the tanks were the resource persons Destroyed andeven people - people tenggelam.Perdana then British Minister, David Lloyd George,using the battle as an example of poor strategy That does not make sense andmilitary skills of the poor. The Allies lost a total of 448.614 people and the German 400,000 people

7. Battle of Verdun (976 000 victims) 

At the battle of the Somme was planned, the Germans launched a massive attack against the French fortress near the town of Verdun, Meuse-sur. Although the German goal is to master the city, a much simpler even more pronounced: only kill so many soldiers that would break the spirit of France France and force them to abandon the battle.

France, though, the stubborn defense of Verdun and inflicted terrible casualties on the Germans, while the suffering of the victims who did not lose much of their own troops in return. Nearly 40 million artillery exchanged during the battle, the scars of war marked the area with craters, some of which are still visible to this day, and the popularization of the French battle cry "They shall not pass!". Verdun the French and German-owned British sedaangkan Somme, a symbol of the horrors of war in general, and the futility of World War I in general. France lost 542,000 casualties, while the Germans lost 435,000.