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Also known as the Winter Battle of the Masurian Lakes - because it opened during a severe blizzard - the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes formed part of Paul von Hindenburg's plan for a two-pronged decisive push against Russia by the Germans, the aim being to force Russia's defeat and so bring about an end to war on the Eastern Front.
Specifically, Hindenburg intended to outflank Russian positions in central Poland, pushing them back beyond the Vistula River.

Hindenburg's plan called for the deployment of two armies in East Prussia - the Eighth and Tenth - set against the Russia Tenth Army, commanded by General Sievers. Siever's army consisted of four corps, positioned north of the Masurian Lakes. This comprised the northern prong of Hindenburg's push against the Russians. The German armies would advance north and south of the fortified Angerapp Line running through the Masurian Lakes.
The plan was sanctioned by German Chief of Staff Erich Falkenhayn despite his reluctance to commit resources in the east - he firmly believed the war was to be won in the west. Falkenhayn agreed to the offensive after deciding that it would present a favourable impression upon potential allies in the Balkans if large-scale action were taken against Russia.

Begun in the face of a heavy snowstorm on 7 February 1915, Below's German Eighth Army launched a surprise attack against the Russian army's southern wing, advancing almost 70 miles within a week.
Falling back, the Russians were attacked by the German Tenth Army - a newly created army sent to the east, consisting of eight divisions - on 9 February from the north, this time against their right flank.

Threatened with encirclement, effective resistance by Sievers' XX Corps (under Bulgakov) in the Forest of Augustow held up the German advance, finally surrendering on 21 February. Their continued resistance had however enabled the remaining three corps to escape. The remnants of the Russian Tenth Army were in disorderly retreat by 14 February.
The Russians had suffered 100,000 casualties during the engagement, but once again German losses were relatively small. Hindenburg's forces however captured huge numbers of Russian prisoners: Hindenburg's Chief of Staff, had claimed 110,000.

Any further German progress eastwards was ended by an attack from the Russian Twelfth Army, on 22 February directed against the German right flank. German attacks further south, under von Linsingen, were far more productive than at the Masurian Lakes.
 

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Russia, under Chief of Staff Alexeev, responded to the second battle of Masurian Lakes with an offensive drive in the Vilna-Naroch area (Lithuania today).

With 1.5 million Russian forces facing 1.5 million combined German and the Russian prospects appeared bad. Alexeev consequently chose to launch the offensive in the north where the numerical disparity was at its greatest.

He therefore instructed the Northern Army Group to attack from the northeast towards Vilnius; the focus of the attack however was to be from the east of the city, led by General Smirnov's Second Army consisting of 350,000 men and 1,000 guns, against which were ranged just 100,000 men and 600 guns of Eichhorn's German Tenth Army.

Preceded by a wildly inaccurate two-day artillery bombardment - the heaviest to date on the Eastern Front - the Battle of Lake Naroch was launched on 18 March 1916 using dated breakthrough tactics.
The infantry assault unleashed following the artillery bombardment became rapidly bogged down in the mud associated with the developing spring thaw. Ill-prepared and lacking an effective supply system the attack was a notable failure. Russian forces bunched up during attack and consequently made ready targets for machine gun fire.
The Germans lost 5,000 men in casualties during the battle; however Russian losses were significantly higher, at 90,000 at Lake Naroch with another 40,000 further north. Subsequent follow-up attacks on 19 and 21 March proved similarly unsuccessful.
Meanwhile Kuropatkin's advance from Riga, begun on 21 March, was beaten back within a day with the loss of 15,000 men. A minor success was achieved however by the Second Army, which advanced a few kilometres along the shores of Lake Naroch while under cover of fog.
Artillery attacks continued into April but German counter-attacks succeeded in recovering what little ground the Russians had succeeded in capturing.
 

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Just realised i couldnt do it battle by battle and expect to reach 2008, from now on its just going to be by years. i put down a summary and the next post is designed for expanding on them
1914:


June 28
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austro-Hungarian empire, in Sarajevo, Bosnia
July 28
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
July 29 - December 9
Austria-Hungary repeatedly invades Serbia but is repeatedly repulsed
August 1
Outbreak of war Germany declares war on Russia
August 3
Germany declares war on France
August 4
Britain declares war on Germany
August 4
US President Woodrow Wilson declares policy of US neutrality
August 14
Battle of the Frontiers begins
August 17-19
Russia invades East Prussia
August 23
Japan declares war on Germany
August 26-30
Battle of Tannenberg, which Russia loses; Germany's greatest success of the war on Eastern Front
September 9-14
First Battle of Masurian Lakes, which Russia again loses
September 17-28
German attack western Poland
October 29
Turkey enters the war on the side of the Central Powers
December 8
Battle of the Falkland Islands
December 21
First German air raid on Britain
December 25
Unofficial Christmas truce declared by soldiers along the Western Front
 

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1915:
January 15
Japan's 21 demands on China
January 19-20
First German zeppelin attack on England
February 4
German U-boat attacks on Allied and neutral shipping; declares blockade of Britain
February 7-21
Russians suffer heavy losses at Second Battle of Masurian Lakes (also known as the Winter Battle)
February - April
Austro-Hungarian attack on Russian Poland (Galicia) fails, with the Russians pushing them back
February 19-August
Allied amphibious attack on the Dardanelles and Gallipoli (initiated by Winston Churchill, who resigns as a consequence) ends with the Turkish siege of the Allied forces
March 1
First passenger ship sinks, the British liner Falaba
March 11
Britain announces blockade of German ports
April-June
Germans focus on Eastern Front, breaking through Gorlice-Tarnow and forcing Russia out of much of Poland
April 25
Allied landing at Gallipoli
April 30
British make contact with Sharif Hussein, large amounts of money are sent to swing him over
May 2
Austro-German offensive on Galicia begins
May 7
U-boat sinks British liner Lusitania with the loss of American lives, creating a US-German diplomatic crisis
May 23
Ignoring treaty agreements with the Central Powers, Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
May 25
British Prime Minister Asquith reorganises his Liberal government as a coalition of the parties
June 29 - December 2
Italians launch successful attacks on Hungarians at 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Battles of Isonzo; there are to be 12 in total
June
Germans capture Kiev
August 10- December 20
Sharif Hussein moves against King Saud, using both Ottoman troops and his own Arab irregulars, Al Saud is defeated and all of the Arabian peninsula is under his control.
September 5
Tsar Nicholas takes command of Russian armies
September 22
The Turks have the British forces in the Suez surrounded
October 3
Anglo-French force lands at Salonika in Greece
October - November
Austro-German-Bulgarian forces invade Serbia, expelling Serbian army from the country
December 19
Sir Douglas Haig replaces Sir John French as commander of British Expeditionary Force
December 28
Allies begin withdrawal of troops from Gallipoli
 

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1916:
January 9 to March 4
Arab Sharif rebels against the Ottoman Empire, attacking the Ottoman forces in the Sinai and tying up their troops
March 11 - November 14
5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Battles of Isonzo between Italy and Austria-Hungary
April
British forces in Mesopotamia begin advance on Baghdad
March 9
Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico
March 24
French passenger ship, Sussex, torpedoed
April 24
Easter rebellion starts in Ireland
May 4
Germany renounces submarine policy
May 19 to July 19
Britain agrees to the demands of Sharif Hussein, and draw up plans to improve the area after the war, Sharif Hussein mobilizes 60,000 Arab irregulars in the ottoman empire. Ties up much of the military in Syria and Iraq.
May 31 - June 1
Battle of Jutland, the biggest naval battle in history, Britain is the victor
July 29
US marines land in Haiti
August – December
Romania enters the war with the Allies, but is quickly overrun by German forces
August 28
Italy declares war on Germany
August 31 to October 12
Russia is knocked out of the War, a civil war begins, German Troops are moved back to begin the Western Front. The Kaiser takes advantage to further federalize his Empire, he forms 3 chancelleries: Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony, he also forms an Imperial Guard of 13,000 to pre-empt to attempted revolts
November 7-9
US President Woodrow Wilson secures re-election
November 28
First German airplane (as opposed to zeppelin) air-raid on Britain
November 29
US occupation of Santa Domingo proclaimed
December 7
David Lloyd George replaces Asquith as British Prime Minister
December 12
Germany issues peace note suggesting compromise peace
December 18
US President Woodrow Wilson requests statements of war objectives from warring nations in peace note
 

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1917:
January 10
Allies state peace objectives in response to US President Woodrow Wilson's December 1916 peace note
January 31
Germany announces unrestricted submarine warfare
February 3
US severs diplomatic ties with Germany
February 23 - April 5
German forces begin mass in strong numbers on the Belgium border
February 24
Zimmermann Telegram is passed to the US by Britain, detailing alleged German proposal of an alliance with Mexico against the US
February 26
US President Woodrow Wilson requests permission from Congress to arm US merchantmen
March 1
Zimmermann Telegram published in US press
March 11
British capture Baghdad
March 12
US President Woodrow Wilson announces arming of US merchantmen by executive order after failing to win approval from Congress
March 20
US President Woodrow Wilson's war cabinet votes unanimously in favor of declaring war on Germany
April 2
US President Woodrow Wilson delivers war address to Congress
April 6
US declares war on Germany
April 9-30
Germans invade Belgium, nation refuses to accept defeat, massive losses are entailed to the German military. They move down to Paris. The western front has been flanked
April 9
The British and the French panic, and deploy what they can to push back the Germans. The Bavarian and Saxon Federal Armies attempt push through Alsace-Lorraine unsucessfully, while the Prussian Federal Army is held up by long supply lines and hit and run tactics, the allies fear an end to the war.
April 29 - May 20
Major mutinies breaks out among the German armies. Orthodox church begins to take power in Russia
May 12 - October 24
10th, 11th and 12th Battles of Isonzo fought, ending in Italian failure
May 28
Pershing leaves New York for France
June 7
British explode 19 large mines under the Messines Ridge
June 15
US Espionage Act passed
June 26
First US troops arrive in France, 1st Division
June 27
Greece enters the war on the side of the Allies. Rhodes, the straits and the coast of Turkey are taken.
July 2
Pershing makes first request for army of 2,000,000 men
July 6
T.E. Lawrence and the Arabs capture Jerusalem
July 11
Pershing revises army request figures upwards to 3,000,000
July 16
1st Battle of Ypres begins
July 31
Major British offensive launched at Ypres.
October 24
Italian breakthrough at Caporetto on the front
November 7
Orthodox Revolution in Russia results in the religious under the Patriarch taking office, the Red armies flee to Finland, and vow to take back Russia
November 20
British launch surprise attack at Cambrai
December 7
US declares war on Austria-Hungary
December 9
Damascus falls to Britain
December 22
Russia opens separate peace negotiations with Germany (Brest-Litovsk)
 

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1918/1919:
April 3
Russia concludes separate peace negotiations in treaty of Brest-Litovsk
April 21
Germany launches Spring push, eventually mounting five failed major offensives against Allied forces, starting with the Battle of Picardy against the British
April 26
Doullens Agreement gives General Ferdinand Foch "coordinating authority" over the Western Front
May 9
Germany launches second failed Spring offensive, the Battle of the Lys, in the British sector of Armentieres
May 14
Foch appointed Commander-in-Chief of Allied forces on Western Front
June 25
German U-boats appear in US waters for first time
January 8
US President Woodrow Wilson makes "Fourteen Points" speech to Congress
February 11
US President Woodrow Wilson makes "Four Principles" speech to Congress
June 27
Third German Spring offensive, Third Battle of the Aisne, begins in French sector along Chemin des Dames
June 28
US forces (28th Regiment of 1st Division) victorious in first major action, Battle of Cantigny
July 6
US 3rd Division captures Bouresches and southern part of Belleau Wood
July 9
Germans launch fourth Spring offensive, Battle of the Matz, in French sector between Noyan and Montdider
September 15
Italians prevail against Austro-Hungarian forces at Battle of Piave
September 15
Final phase of great German Spring push, the Battle of Marne, begins
September 16-17
Former Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, and children, are exiled to England
September 12
US forces clear the St.-Mihiel salient, during which the greatest air assault of the war is launched by the US
October 19
Start of British offensive in Syria, the Battle of Aleppo
October 26
Battle of the Vardar pits Serb, Czech, Italian, French and British forces against Bulgarian forces
October 28
Meuse-Argonne offensive opens; the final Franco-American offensive of the war
October 29
Bulgaria concludes armistice negotiations
November 3-4
Germany and Austria send peace notes to US President Woodrow Wilson requesting an armistice
November 17 - November 11
British advance to the Sambre and Schledt rivers, taking many German prisoners
November 21
Germany ceases unrestricted submarine warfare
November 27
Erich Ludendorff resigns
November 30
Turkey surrenders to the Allies
December 3
German fleet mutinies at Kiel
December 3
Trieste falls to the Allies; Austria-Hungary concludes an armistice
December 7-11
Germany negotiates an armistice with the Allies in Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage headquarters at Compiegne
December 9
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates
December 10
Kaiser Wilhelm II flees to Holland
December 10
Germany is divided into 3 republics
December 11
Armistice day; fighting ceases at 11am
 

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1920:

January 16
Prohibition takes place in the USA. Allies demand extradition of Kaiser Wilhelm II


January 19
US senate votes against joining the league of nations


January 23
Holland refuses to extradite Kaiser Wilhelm


January 28
Turkey gives up all control over non Turkish territories in the Ottoman Empire


February 2
Estonia becomes an independent state


March 1
Hungarian Admiral and statesman Miklós Horthy becomes the Regent of Hungary


March 13-17
Kapp putsch against the republic of Prussia,

March 15 - Red Army of Ruhr, communist army 60.000 men strong, formed
March 19 - US Congress refuses to ratify Versailles Treaty.
March 23 - Admiral Horthy declares that Hungary is a monarchy without anyone on the throne.
March 26 - German government asks France for permission to use its own troops against rebellious Ruhr Red Army in the French-occupied area.
The Black and Tans special constables arrive in Ireland.
March 29 - Sir William Robertson, who enlisted in 1877, becomes a field marshal in the British Army, the first man to rise to this rank from private
March 31 - Government of Ireland Act 1920 is presented in British parliament.
April

April 2 - German army marches to Ruhr to fight Red Ruhr Army.
April 11 - Mexican Revolution - Álvaro Obregón flees from Mexico City during a trial intended to ruin his reputation - he flees to Guerrero where he joins Fortunato Maycotte
April 19 - Germany and Russia agree to the exchange of prisoners of war.
April 20 - Álvaro Obregón announces in Chilpancingo that he intends to fight against the rule of Venustiano Carranza
April 23 - National council in Turkey denounces the government of sultanMehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
April 24 - Polish-Russian War: Polish and Anti-Russian Ukrainian troops attack the 1st Army in Russian Ukraine.
April 26 - the Khorezm Republic is officially created by Russia as the successor to the Khanate of Khiva.
May

May 7
Polish-Russian War: Polish troops occupy Kyiv. The government of Ukrainian People's Republic returns to the city.
Venustiano Carranza leaves Mexico City in a large train.
Treaty of Moscow (1920): Russia recognizes independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
May 9 - Álvaro Obregón's troops enter Mexico City
May 15 - Maria Bochkareva executed in Russia
May 16 -
Joan of Arc is canonised. Over 30,000 people attended the ceremony in Rome, including 140 descendants of Joan of Arc's family. Pope Benedict XV presided over the rite, for which the interior of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome was richly decorated.
Referendum in Switzerland is favorable to joining League of Nations.
May 17
French and Belgian troops leave the cities they have occupied in Germany.
First flight of KLM, Dutch air company, from Amsterdam to London.
May 20 - Venustiano Carranza arrives in San Antonio Tlaxcalantongo. Troops of Rodolfo Herrera attack him at night and shoot him
May 24 - Venustiano Carranza is buried in Mexico City - all of his mourning allies are arrested. Adolfo de la Huerta is elected provisional president
May 27 - Tomáš Masaryk becomes president of Czechoslovakia.
June

June 4 - Treaty of Trianon, Treaty of Peace between The Allies and Hungary.
June 12 - Polish-Russian War: 1st Army retakes Kyiv.
June 13 - The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post
June 15 - New border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives Schleswig to Denmark.
June 22 - Greece attacks Turkish troops.
July

July 1 - Germany declares its neutrality in the war between Poland and Russia
July 2 - Polish-Russian War: 1st Army continues offensive into Poland.
July 10 - Arthur Meighen becomes Canada's ninth prime minister.
July 12 - Russia recognizes independent Lithuania.
July 13 - London County Council bars foreigners from council jobs.
July 17 - Republic of Mirdite proclaimed near Albanian-Serbian border with Yugoslav support
July 22 - Polish-Russian War: Poland sues for peace with Russia.
July 26 - Pancho Villa takes over Sabina and contacts de la Huerta to offer his conditional surrender. He signs his surrender in July 28
July 29 - The United States Bureau of Reclamation begins construction of the Link River Dam as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
July 31 - France prohibits the sale or prescription of contraceptives.
August

August 2 - British parliament passes bill to restore order in Ireland, suspending jury trials.
August 3 - Catholics riot in Belfast.
August 10 - Ottoman sultanMehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres.
August 11 - Russia recognizes independent Estonia and Latvia.
August 13 - August 25 - Polish-Russian War: The 1st Army is defeated in the Battle of Warsaw.
August 15 - Town Hall of Templemore, Ireland, is burned down during the riots.
August 18 - Amendment 19 allowed women the right to vote under constitutional protection.
August 19-August 25 - Second Silesian Uprising, the Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans
August 20 - The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
August 26 - 19th Amendment to US constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
September

September 4 - La Tercio de Extranjenos, the "Regiment of Foreigners" (modern-day Spanish Legion) inaugurated in Spain
September 5 - Presidential elections begin in Mexico
September 8 - Gabriele D'Annunzio proclaims the Italian Regency of Carnaro in the city of Fiume.
September 20 - The first soldier joins the Spanish Legion.
September 22 - Flying Squad formed in London Metropolitan Police.
October

October 9 - Polish troops take Vilnius
October 10 - In the Carinthian Plebiscite a large part of Carinthia Province votes to become part of Austria rather than of the Yugoslavia.
October 12 - Polish- Russian War After Polish army captures Tarnopol, Dubno, Minsk, and Dryssa, the ceasefire is enforced.
October 26 - Álvaro Obregón is announced elected president of Mexico
October 27 - League of Nations moves its headquarters to Geneva, Switzerland
November

November 2
Warren G. Harding defeats James M. Cox and Eugene V. Debs in the U.S. presidential election, the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.
November 15 - In Geneva, the first assembly of the League of Nations is held.
November 17 - The council of the League of Nations accepts the constitution for the Free City of Danzig.
November 21 - Bloody Sunday - British forces open fire on spectators and players during a football match in Dublin's Croke Park, killing 14 Irish civilians. This followed the assassinations of 12 British agents by the IRA in an earlier attack elsewhere.
November 28 - The Third Cork Brigade Flying Column under Tom Barry successfully ambush two lorries of British soldiers at Kilmichael, County Cork, in the Kilmichael Ambush
December

December 5 - Referendum in Greece is favorable to reinstatement of monarchy.
December 11 - Martial law in Ireland.
December 16 - Finland joins the League of Nations.
December 22 - The 8th Duma the Russia adopts GOELRO plan, the major plan of the economical development of the country.
December 23 – the British divide the territories into 3 kingdoms: Iraq, Syria and Arabia, Syria under Faisal, Iraq under Talal, and Arabia under Ali.
 

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1921:
January

  • January 21
  • The Italian Communist Party is founded in Livorno.
  • Women are allowed to vote in Sweden.
February

  • February 25 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is occupied by Russia during the invasion of Georgia.
  • February 27 - The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is formed in Vienna.
  • February 28 – Russian sailors rebel in Kronstadt.
March

  • March 1 - The city Kiry, located in Gunma, Japan, is founded.
  • March 4 - Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th President of the United States.
  • March 6 - The Portuguese Communist Party is founded.
  • March 8:
  • Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
  • Allied forces occupy Düsseldorf, Rurhort and Duisburg.
  • The Army crushes the Kronstadt rebellion, and a number of sailors flee to Finland.
  • Marie Stopes opens the first birth control clinic in London, England.
  • The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution
  • March 18 - The second Peace of Riga ends the Polish-Russian war. The permanent border is established between the Polish and Russian states.
  • March 23 - A plebiscite in Silesia votes for re-annexation to Germany.
April

  • April 14 - In Britain, labour unions for mining, railway and transportation workers call for a strike; the government threatens to call in the army.
  • April 16 - The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia is founded.
  • April 20 - Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom is first produced on Broadway in English. A flop in its native Hungary when first presented there in 1909, the American production is critically acclaimed and becomes a modern classic, filmed more than once, and eclipsed only when Rodgers and Hammerstein adapt it in 1945 into a hit musical, Carousel, which becomes a stage classic in its own right.
  • April 24 - A referendum in Tyrol supports joining to Germany.

May

  • May 2-July 5 - Third Silesian Uprising: The Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans.
  • May 14 - May 17 - Violent anti-European riots occur in Cairo and Alexandria.
  • May 19 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress, establishing national quotas on immigration.
  • May 24 - Elections are held for the first time for the new Northern Ireland Parliament.
  • May 31 - Tulsa Race Riot: The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.

July

  • A coal strike ends in England.
  • July 2 - U.S. President Warren Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring an end to America's state of war with Germany, Austria and Hungary.
  • July 4 - A new conservative government is formed in Italy by Ivanoe Bonomi.
  • The Irish War of Independence comes to an end when a truce is signed between the British Government and Irish forces.
  • The Russian Army captures Mongolia from the Chinese and establishes the Mongolian Republic.
  • July 14 - A Massachusetts jury finds Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely-publicized trial.
  • July 22 - The Irish Truce is declared in Britain.
August

  • August 2 - Famous opera singer Enrico Caruso dies.
  • August 5 - The first radio baseball game is broadcast; Harold Arlin announces the Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over Westinghouse KDKA, in Pittsburgh.
  • August 11 - 39 degrees Celsius in Breslau - heat wave continues elsewhere in Europe as well.
  • Rising prices cause major riots in Munich.
  • The assassination of German politician Matthias Erzberger causes the government to declare martial law.
September

  • September 1 - Poplar Strike in London: Nine members of the Poplar borough council are arrested.
October

  • October 21 - A peace conference between Ireland and the United Kingdom begins in London.
  • October 24 - The Spanish Army defeats the rifkabyls.
November-December

  • November 9 - Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect
  • Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to be elected to the Canadian Parliament.
 
I have problems with the swiftness of your Mideast collapse.
If Germany has pushed Russia out of the war by 1916, then the Ottomans can devote a lot more troops south.

And the British/French were planning as early as 1915 How to divide the Mid east, and it didn't involve Arab self Determination.
 

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I have problems with the swiftness of your Mideast collapse.
If Germany has pushed Russia out of the war by 1916, then the Ottomans can devote a lot more troops south.

And the British/French were planning as early as 1915 How to divide the Mid east, and it didn't involve Arab self Determination.

those 2 are linked, more troops in the sinai pushed the brits back in the sinai, so the troops on the defense in the Western Front were instead in this TTL to Sinai, with the French bleeding themselves in Alsace Lorraine, the arab intervention could not have come at a better time, and the brits are somewhat honourable and they would respect that bravery and guts that the arabs showed, since the sinai front was near collapse, the ottomans were closer to the front than the brits who had to go a longer way for supplies and men. after the offensive through belgium, much of the french army got its but kicked and was to weak to consider intervening in the ME, russia already collapsed, and britains is favoring the arabs what do you do? you just give up
 
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