Portal : World War I / selected event - wikipedia Portal : World War I / selected event < Portal : World War I edit Selected events The 1916 Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the First World War, with more than one million casualties, and also one of the bloodiest battles in human history. The Allied forces attempted to break through the German lines along a 25 - mile ( 40 km ) front north and south of the River Somme in northern France. One purpose of the battle was to draw German forces away from the Battle of Verdun ; however, by its end the losses on the Somme had exceeded those at Verdun. While Verdun would bite deep in the national consciousness of France for generations, the Somme would have the same effect on generations of Britons. The battle is best remembered for its first day, 1 July 1916, on which the British suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead -- the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army to this day. As terrible as the battle was for the British Empire troops who suffered there, it naturally affected the other nationalities as well. One German officer famously described it as `` the muddy grave of the German field army. '' By the end of the battle, the British had learnt many lessons in modern warfare while the Germans had suffered irreplaceable losses. British official historian Sir James Edmonds stated, `` It is not too much to claim that the foundations of the final victory on the Western Front were laid by the Somme offensive of 1916. '' For the first time the home front in Britain was exposed to the horrors of modern war with the release of the propaganda film The Battle of the Somme, which used actual footage from the first days of the battle. Read more... The Battle of Verdun, fought from 21 February to 19 December 1916 around the city of Verdun - sur - Meuse in northeast France, was one of the most important battles in World War I on the Western Front. The battle was fought between the German and French armies. It resulted in more than a quarter of a million deaths and about half a million wounded. It was the longest battle and one of the bloodiest in World War I. In both France and Germany it has come to represent the horrors of war, similar to the Somme in Britain. The battle popularised the phrase `` Ils ne passeront pas '' ( `` They shall not pass '' ), uttered by Robert Nivelle, but often incorrectly attributed to Pétain. Read more... The Treaty of Versailles ( 1919 ) was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allied and Central Powers and the German Empire. After six months of negotiations, which took place at the Paris Peace Conference, the treaty was signed as a follow - up to the armistice signed on November 11th, 1918 in the Compiègne Forest ( which had put an end to the actual fighting ). Although there were many provisions in the treaty, one of the more important and recognized provisions required Germany to accept full responsibility for causing the war and, under the terms of articles 231 - 247, make reparations to certain countries that had formed the Allies. Read more... The Brusilov Offensive ( Russian : Брусиловский прорыв ) was the greatest Russian feat of arms during World War I, and among the most lethal battles in world history. It was a major offensive against the armies of the Central Powers on the Eastern Front, launched on June 4, 1916 and lasting until early August. It took place in what today is Ukraine, in the general vicinity of the towns of Lemberg, Kovel, and Lutsk. The offensive was named after the Russian commander in charge of the Southwestern Front, Aleksei Brusilov. Read more... The Battle of Tannenberg in 1914 was a decisive engagement between the Russian Empire and the German Empire in the first days of The Great War, fought by the Russian First and Second Armies and the German Eighth Army between August 17 and September 2, 1914. The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army. A series of follow - up battles kept the Russians off - balance until the spring of 1915. The battle is notable particularly for a number of rapid movements of complete corps by train, allowing the single German Army to present a single front to both Russian Armies. Read more... The Battle of Arras was an offensive during World War I by forces of the British Empire between 9 April and 16 May 1917. British, Canadian, and Australian troops attacked German trenches near the French city of Arras. At this stage of the war, the Western Front was a continuous line of trenches stretching from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border. With minor adjustments caused by the ebb and flow of asaults and counter-assaults, this corresponded roughly to the final line of confrontation in the last phase of the war of movement of 1914. From behind barbed wire and fortifications, about 100 German divisions faced about 150 French and British Empire divisions in seeming deadlock. In its simplest terms, the Allied objective from early 1915 onwards was to break through the German defences into the open ground beyond and engage the numerically inferior German army in open battle. The Battle of Arras was planned in conjunction with the French High Command, who were planning a massive attack ( the Nivelle Offensive ) about eighty kilometres to the south. This had the stated aim of ending the war in forty - eight hours. At Arras, the British Empire 's immediate objectives were more modest : ( i ) to draw German troops away from the ground chosen for the French attack and ( ii ) to take the German - held high ground that dominated the plain of Douai. When the battle officially ended on 16 May, British Empire troops had made significant advances, but had been unable to achieve a major breakthrough at any point. New tactics had been battle - tested, particularly in the first phase, and had demonstrated that set - piece assaults against heavily fortified positions could be successful. This sector then reverted to the stalemate that typified most of the war on the Western Front. Read more... The Armenian Genocide ( Armenian : Հայոց Ցեղասպանութիւն, Turkish : Ermeni Soykırımı ) -- also known as the Armenian Holocaust, `` Great Calamity '' ( Մեծ Եղեռն ) or the Armenian Massacre -- refers to the forced mass evacuation and related deaths of hundreds of thousands to over a million Armenians, during the government of the Young Turks from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire. Today, the Republic of Turkey rejects the notion that the event constituted a genocide and instead claims that the deaths among the Armenians were a result of inter-ethnic strife, disease and famine during the turmoil of World War I. However, most Armenian, Russian, Western, and an increasing number of Turkish scholars believe that it was indeed a genocide, or campaign of state - sponsored ethnic cleansing and mass extermination. For example, some Western sources point to the sheer scale of the death toll as evidence for a systematic, organized plan to eliminate the Armenians. The event is also said to be the second-most studied case of genocide, and often draws comparison with the Holocaust. To date 21 countries have here officially recognised it as genocide. Read more... The Battle of Jutland ( German : Skagerrakschlacht ( Battle of the Skagerrak ) ; Danish : Søslaget ved Jylland / Søslaget om Skagerrak ), was the largest naval battle of World War I, and the only full - scale clash of battleships in that war. It was fought on May 31 -- June 1, 1916, in the North Sea near Jutland, the mainland of Denmark. The combatants were the Kaiserliche Marine 's High Seas Fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Reinhard Scheer and the Royal Navy 's Grand Fleet commanded by Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Jellicoe. The intention of the German fleet was to break the British naval blockade of the North Sea and allow German mercantile shipping to operate again. On the afternoon of 31 May, Beatty and Hipper encountered each other, and in a running battle to the south Hipper drew the British into the path of the High Seas Fleet. Beatty turned and fled towards the Grand Fleet and from 18 : 30 until nightfall at about 20 : 30 the two huge fleets -- totaling 250 ships between them -- were heavily engaged. Fourteen British and eleven German ships were sunk with great loss of life. Jellicoe tried to cut the Germans off from their base in the hope of continuing the battle in the morning, but under cover of darkness Scheer crossed the wake of the British fleet and returned to port. Read more... The First Battle of the Marne ( also known as the Miracle of the Marne ) was a World War I battle fought from September 5 to September 12, 1914. It was a Franco - British victory against the German army under German Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. The battle of the Marne was a major turning point of World War I. By the end of August 1914, the whole Allied army on the Western Front had been forced into a general retreat back towards Paris. Meanwhile the two main German armies continued through France. It seemed that Paris would be taken as both the French and the British fell back towards the Marne River. Read more... The Battle of Gallipoli ( sometimes referred to as the first D - Day ) took place on the Turkish peninsula of Gallipoli from April 1915 to January 1916 during the First World War. A joint British and French operation was mounted in order to eventually capture the Ottoman capital of Istanbul. The attempt failed, with heavy casualties on both sides. In Turkey the campaign is known as the Çanakkale Savaşları, after the province of Çanakkale. In the United Kingdom it is called the Dardanelles Campaign or Gallipoli, and in France, Australia, New Zealand and Newfoundland it is usually known as the `` Gallipoli Campaign ''. Read more... 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Question: what was the turning point of world war 1
Answer: The battle of the Marne