MAPS OF HISTORY · WWI · THE INDEX
The Great War, 1914–1918
Every chapter, map and battle — indexed
The Great War, 1914–1918 is an interactive situation map: 12 guided chapters, 17 dated map states, and 48 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the card catalog — every piece of the atlas as a readable, linkable page.
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THE CHAPTERS
The Powder Keg
CHAPTER 1 · JUL 1914
The Guns of August
CHAPTER 2 · AUG 1914
The Trench
CHAPTER 3 · DEC 1914
The Widening War
CHAPTER 4 · NOV 1915
The Furnaces
CHAPTER 5 · NOV 1916
The Slowest Weapon
CHAPTER 6 · JAN 1917
The World’s War
CHAPTER 7 · MAY 1917
Breaking Points
CHAPTER 8 · NOV 1917
Brest-Litovsk: The Gamble in the East Pays
CHAPTER 9 · APR 1918
The Spring Offensives and the Hundred Days
CHAPTER 10 · AUG 1918
Armistice
CHAPTER 11 · NOV 1918
The Peace That Failed
CHAPTER 12 · FEB 1919
THE MAP, YEAR BY YEAR
JUL 1914AUG 1914SEP 1914NOV 1914NOV 1915DEC 1916APR 1917NOV 1917MAR 1918JUL 1918OCT 1918NOV 1918JUN 1919NOV 1914DEC 1915APR 1917NOV 1918
BATTLES, EVENTS & SITES OF MEMORY
● 10:58 a.m.✕ Amiens● Brest-Litovsk✕ Cambrai✕ Caporetto◆ Deir ez-Zor✕ Dobro Pole● February Revolution✕ First Ypres✕ Gallipoli◆ Gas at Ypres✕ Gorlice–Tarnów✕ Jutland✕ Liège◆ Louvain✕ Megiddo● October Revolution✕ Operation Michael◆ Passchendaele● Sarajevo✕ Second Marne● Smyrna✕ Tanga✕ Tannenberg● The Arab Revolt✕ The Brusilov Offensive● The Chinese Labour Corps● The Christmas truce✕ The Falklands✕ The Isonzo● The Kiel mutiny◆ The Lusitania✕ The Marne✕ The Nivelle Offensive● The Northern Patrol◆ The Serbian retreat◆ The Somme, 1 July● The Sykes–Picot line● The blank cheque● The bread peace● The convoy system● The fall of Bucharest◆ The influenza pandemic● The railway carriage● The ultimatum✕ Tsingtao✕ Verdun● Versailles
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