U-boat Campaign (World War I) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-16

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00:00:55 1 1914: Initial campaign
00:01:05 1.1 North Sea: Initial stage
00:02:12 1.2 Mediterranean: Initial stage
00:03:06 1.3 Submarine warfare
00:04:20 1.4 First attacks on merchant ships
00:04:55 2 1915: War on commerce
00:05:06 2.1 Unrestricted submarine warfare
00:08:25 2.2 RMS iLusitania/i
00:10:30 2.3 Submarine minelayers
00:11:26 2.4 SS iArabic/i
00:12:19 2.5 Dardanelles Operations
00:13:26 2.6 Mediterranean operations
00:16:12 2.7 Central countermeasures
00:18:22 2.8 Depth charges
00:19:29 3 1916: The High Seas Fleet; Mediterranean, American, Arctic and Black Sea waters
00:19:43 3.1 In support of the High Seas Fleet
00:21:08 3.2 Mediterranean waters
00:22:01 3.3 American waters
00:23:07 3.4 Arctic waters
00:23:58 3.5 Black Sea waters
00:25:30 4 1917: Resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare
00:28:35 4.1 Allied response
00:31:24 5 1918: The last year
00:32:45 5.1 U-cruisers
00:33:42 5.2 American campaign
00:36:15 5.3 Final countermeasures
00:37:37 5.4 United States Navy in the Atlantic and Mediterranean
00:39:03 6 Japanese participation
00:39:53 7 Brazilian participation
00:41:24 8 Aftermath
00:42:37 9 Summary
00:42:46 9.1 Allied and Neutral Tonnage sunk by u-boats in World War I
00:44:49 9.2 German Submarine Force 1914–1918



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The U-boat Campaign from 1914 to 1918 was the World War I naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the Allies. It took place largely in the seas around the British Isles and in the Mediterranean.
The German Empire relied on imports for food and domestic food production (especially fertilizer) and the United Kingdom relied heavily on imports to feed its population, and both required raw materials to supply their war industry; the powers aimed, therefore, to blockade one another. The British had the Royal Navy which was superior in numbers and could operate on most of the world's oceans because of the British Empire, whereas the Imperial German Navy surface fleet was mainly restricted to the German Bight, and used commerce raiders and unrestricted submarine warfare to operate elsewhere.In the course of events, German U-boats sank almost 5,000 ships with nearly 13 million gross register tonnage, losing 178 boats and about 5,000 men in combat.