World War I Battles and Events Trivia Word Search

This 1914 battle east of Paris halted the German advance and ended hopes of a quick Western Front victory.

French forces were defeated at this Belgian city in the Battle of the Frontiers in August 1914.

British forces under General Allenby captured this holy city from the Ottomans in December 1917.

ANZAC troops landed on this Turkish peninsula in April 1915 in a costly failed campaign.

A 1916 raid across the Sinai desert saw British forces attack an Ottoman garrison at this oasis.

A famous mounted charge by Australian light horsemen captured this Palestinian town's wells in 1917.

Three separate battles were fought for this Palestinian city in 1917 before British forces finally broke through.

A 1918 Allied offensive through the Balkans knocked Bulgaria out of the war and took its name from a river.

The first major infantry engagement of the Gallipoli campaign, in April 1915, took its name from a nearby village.

British-led forces captured this Mesopotamian capital in March 1917 after an earlier defeat nearby.

Austro-Hungarian forces held off Russian attacks near this Ukrainian town during 1916's Brusilov fighting.

German forces pushed British troops back across this Belgian river during their 1918 spring offensive.

Poison gas was first used on a large scale in the second battle fought near this Belgian city in 1915.

South African troops fought a costly six-day engagement at this wooded site during the 1916 Somme, named _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Wood.

Britain first used poison gas of its own at this 1915 battle in northern France.

An early Russian victory over German forces in East Prussia came at this town in August 1914.

Tanks made their combat debut in this 1916 offensive along a French river valley.

French forces launched major offensives in this region, famous for its sparkling wine, in late 1914 and again in 1915.

A decisive 1918 Italian victory near a town whose name completes 'Battle of Vittorio _ _ _ _ _ _' knocked Austria-Hungary out of the war.

Twelve battles were fought along this river on the Italian-Austrian front between 1915 and 1917.

The last major battle of the Mesopotamian campaign, in October 1918, was fought at this town on the Tigris.

Britain's first massed tank assault came in a 1917 offensive near this French town.

The largest naval battle of the war was fought off Denmark's coast near this stretch of sea in 1916.

British and Canadian troops captured Vimy Ridge during this 1917 offensive in northern France.

Belgian forts held out for nearly two weeks against German siege guns at this city in August 1914.

German forces halted a Russian advance into Poland at this industrial city in late 1914.

Soviet Russia and Germany clashed near this city shortly after the Bolsheviks seized power, in early 1918.

German forces captured this Baltic port city from Russia in a 1917 offensive.

Fought near a scenic East Prussian lake district in 1915, this battle helped drive Russian troops from German soil.

British Indian forces captured this town near Basra in December 1914.

British troops made a fighting stand during their 1914 retreat at this French town, slowing the German pursuit.

British-led forces captured this town on the Euphrates in July 1915 after an advance through marshes.

Nineteen huge mines exploded beneath German lines to open this 1917 battle in Belgium.

German commander Erich Ludendorff called this August 1918 Allied breakthrough the 'black day of the German Army.'

A German naval squadron destroyed two British cruisers off the coast of Chile in this 1914 battle.

A besieged British garrison surrendered to Ottoman forces at this Mesopotamian town in April 1916.

A series of costly opening clashes along the Franco-Belgian border in August 1914 is known collectively by this name.

Russian forces overran Austria-Hungary in this 1914 campaign fought in a region now split between Poland and Ukraine.

British and German battlecruisers clashed at this 1915 North Sea engagement: Battle of Dogger _ _ _ _.

Russia's Alexander led the army's final offensive of the war in the summer of 1917, shortly before its collapse.

British forces made their main Gallipoli landing at the peninsula's southern tip, a headland called Cape _ _ _ _ _ _.

Australian forces suffered their deadliest 24 hours in military history at this 1916 diversionary attack near the Somme.

Britain's first large-scale planned offensive of the war, in March 1915, was fought near a French village called Neuve _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

A costly and largely unsuccessful Russian offensive in early 1916 was fought near this lake in modern Belarus.

Russian troops advanced along the Black Sea coast to capture this Ottoman port in 1916.

Britain avenged a naval defeat off Chile by sinking a German squadron near these South Atlantic islands.

Russian forces defeated an Ottoman army in the Caucasus at this 1915 battle.

The closing phase of the 1916 Somme offensive was fought along this small French river.

Russian forces captured a heavily fortified Ottoman city in the Caucasus during this 1916 winter offensive.

Austro-German forces routed the Italian army at this 1917 battle, forcing a retreat to the Piave River.

A failed 1917 French offensive under General Robert led to widespread mutinies in the army.

Australian troops suffered heavy losses capturing this French village ridge during the 1916 Somme fighting.

A 1916 campaign fought along the Black Sea coast pitted Central Powers troops against Romanian and Russian forces.

The largest American operation of the war, in 1918, was fought in a forest whose name completes 'Meuse-_ _ _ _ _ _ _ Offensive.'

This Belgian port city fell to German forces in October 1914 after a siege of roughly two weeks.

A 1915 Central Powers offensive broke the Russian lines near a Polish town whose second half is the answer here: Gorlice-_ _ _ _ _ _.

One of the final Allied pushes of the war, in October 1918, was fought along this French river.

After the Marne, French and British forces dug in along this river, foreshadowing the trench stalemate.

British-led forces advanced up the Tigris River to capture this Mesopotamian town in 1915.

Germany's last major gamble, a 1918 spring offensive on the Western Front, was code-named Operation this archangel's name.

Central Powers forces captured Romania's capital in December 1916.

The 1916 Somme offensive opened with fighting around this French town, a name shared by a British royal consort.

The last major city to fall to British-led forces in Syria, in October 1918, was this ancient trading hub.

A decisive 1918 Allied victory in Palestine, named for an ancient battle site, shattered Ottoman lines.

A narrow ravine on the Gallipoli peninsula gave its name to a costly 1915 Allied attack.

The British Expeditionary Force fought its first major engagement of the war at this Belgian town in 1914.

The war's first major naval clash came in 1914 off a North Sea island, in a stretch of water called Heligoland _ _ _ _ _.

The first major operation led entirely by the US Army came in 1918 at a French town whose name completes 'Battle of Saint-_ _ _ _ _ _.'

Russian troops captured this Anatolian city in the Caucasus theater during 1916.

Armenian defenders held off an Ottoman siege at this Anatolian city in 1915 until Russian relief arrived.

American and French troops helped halt the German advance at this French town in the summer of 1918.

British Indian forces captured this southern Mesopotamian port city in November 1914.