List of military engagements of World War I

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This list of military engagements of World War I covers terrestrial, maritime, and aerial conflicts, including campaigns, operations, defensive positions, and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period of time. Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localized to a specific area and over a specific period of time. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the First Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war.[1]

List of Canadian battles during the First World War on the Western Front plaque in Currie Hall, Royal Military College of Canada

European theatre (1914–1918)

See also: European theatre of World War I

Western Front (1914–1918)

See also: Western Front (World War I)

1914

1915

1916

1917

1918

Italian Campaign (1915–1918)

See also: Italian front (World War I)

Eastern Front (1914–1918)

See also: Eastern Front (World War I)

Campaign of 1914 (Entente victory; Russia captures Galicia, part East Prussia and part of the Carpathian Mountains, And also knocks out the Germans from Poland, disrupting their plans to destroy a group of Russian troops. As well as disrupts the Schlieffen plan, forcing Germany to fight on two fronts)[2][3][4]

Campaign of 1915 (Central powers victory, however, the Germans are unable to bring Russia out of the war. Russians return a wide strip to Galicia[3])[4][2]

Campaign of 1916 (Russian victory; recapture Galicia and Bukovina; the Russians are forcing the Germans to stop the attacks on Verdun by their actions)

Campaign of 1917 (Central powers victory)

Central Powers intervention in the Russian Civil War (1918)

See also: Central Powers intervention in the Russian Civil War

(Central Powers victory, End of the eastern front and Central Powers occupation of Western Russia)

Romanian Campaign (1916–1918)

See also: Romania in World War I

(part of Eastern front)

1916

1917

1918

Balkans theatre (1914–1918)

See also: Balkan Front (World War I)

Serbia campaign (1914–1915)

See also: Serbian campaign

World War I in Albania (1914–1918)

See also: World War I in Albania

Partisan campaign in occupied Serbia (1915–1917/1918)

See also: Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia § Resistance

Macedonian front (1915–1918)

See also: Macedonian front

Greece during World War I

See also: Greece during World War I

Dissolution of Austria-Hungary (1914–1918)

See also: Dissolution of Austria-Hungary

Note:[a]

German Revolution (1918) (WW1 part)

See also: German revolution of 1918–1919

Establish of independent Polish state

  • Disarmament of German soldiers in Poland[11]
  • Coup d'état in Poland (1918) [pl]

Middle Eastern theatre (1914–1918)

See also: Middle Eastern theatre of World War I

Caucasus Campaign (1914–1918)

See also: Caucasus campaign

1914

1915

1916

1917

  • Senenj-Kermanshah offensive (Russian victory)[13]

1918

Gallipoli Campaign (1915–1916)

See also: Gallipoli campaign
W Beach, Helles, on January 7, 1916, just prior to the final evacuation of British forces during the Gallipoli Campaign.

The Gallipoli Campaign (also called the "Dardanelles Campaign"), was a number of battles fought between 1915 and 1916.

Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918)

See also: Sinai and Palestine campaign

Mesopotamian Campaign (1914–1918)

See also: Mesopotamian campaign

Arab Revolt (1916–1919)

See also: Arab Revolt

Persian Campaign (1914–1918)

See also: Persian campaign (World War I)

South Arabia (1914–1919)

See also: South Arabia during World War I

Second Saudi-Rashidi War (1915–1918)

See also: Second Saudi-Rashidi War (1915–1918)

Other military engagements

African theatre of World War I (1914–1918)

See also: African theatre of World War I

East African campaign (1914–1918) (Allied victory)

See also: East African campaign (World War I)

Kamerun campaign (1914–1916) (Allied victory)

See also: Kamerun campaign

Togoland campaign (1914)

See also: Togoland campaign

South West Africa campaign (1914–1915/1917)

See also: South West Africa campaign and Ovambo Uprising

Operations in North africa (1914–1918 (as part of WW1)) (Allied victory)

See also: Military operations in North Africa during World War I

Asia-Pacific theatre (1914–1919)

See also: Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I

Allied occupation of German New Guinea (1914)

See also: Allied occupation of German New Guinea

Resistance in occupied German New Guinea

Note:[d]

North-West Frontier Theatre (1914–1917)

See also: North-West Frontier Theatre of WWI

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Central Asian revolt of 1916

See also: Central Asian revolt of 1916
  • Semirechye revolt of 1916 [ru]
    • Karkarinsky uprising of 1916 [ru]
  • Jizzakh uprising
  • Kostanay revolt [ru]
  • Akmola revolt [ru]
  • Turgai uprising (1916–1917) [ru]
    • Siege of Turgai (1916)
    • Dogal battle [ru]

Basmachi movement (1916–1918(as part of WW1)-1934)

See also: Basmachi movement

Chinese entry into World War I (1917)

See also: Republic of China declaration of war on Germany

Naval engagements (1914–1918)

See also: Naval warfare of World War I, List of shipwrecks in 1914, List of shipwrecks in 1915, List of shipwrecks in 1916, List of shipwrecks in 1917, List of shipwrecks in 1918, List of maritime disasters in World War I, List of hospital ships sunk in World War I, Convoys in World War I, and German commerce raiders in World War I

U-boat campaign

See also: U-boat campaign

Atlantic Theatre

Mediterranean

See also: Naval warfare in the Mediterranean during World War I

Asia-Pacific Theatre

See also: Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I

Baltic sea

Black Sea

West Indian Ocean

Air engagements (1914–1918)

See also: Aviation in World War I

World War I was the first war to see major use of planes for offensive, defensive and reconnaissance operations, and both the Entente Powers and the Central Powers used planes extensively. Almost as soon as they were invented, planes were drafted for military service.

Battles:

See also the following articles:

Other military engagements

Strikes, demonstrations, civil unrest and similar events

Due to the huge number of such events, only the most important ones or those that have their own article or section within the article should be listed.

Note: The term Hunger Storm (in Czech: Hladová bouře) means civil unrest caused by hunger.

Austria-Hungary

German Empire

Massacres

Main article: War crimes in World War I

List

Co-belligerent conflicts

These conflicts are considered part of the First World War because one or more of the combatants were aligned with a main belligerent power which may have provided materiel, military, financial, or political support.

Pre-First World War

During the First World War

(Some are already mentioned above in the article)

Post-First World War

Notes

  1. [a]
    Rebellions and other incidents presaging the dissolution of the monarchy.
  2. [b]
    Declarations of workes' and soldiers' councils
  3. [c]
    Only engagements outside of military fronts
  4. [d]
    Note: Herman Detzner's group was not the only one that refused to surrender after the conquest of the colony. However, by 1915, all such groups had been liquidated.[18]
  5. [e]
    The victims of the incident are sometimes described as the last casualties of the First World War (actually the last casualty of the war was probably the American Henry Gunther)

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