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1915 was the first full year of the First World War and it expanded the carnage to new fronts and saw massive battles along the ones from 1914. The Western Front turned into an entrenched stalemate that neither Germany nor the Allies could break, in the East Germany and Austria-Hungary beat back Russia and crushed Serbia with the help of a new ally. In Gallipoli the Allies failed to defeat the Ottomans but elsewhere it was the Turks who were losing.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro

06:29 Carpathian Offensive 1915

27:28 2nd Battle of Ypres

46:24 Technological Innovations 1915

48:54 Allied Spring Offensives 1915

59:51 Battle of Suez and Mesopotamia 1915

01:02:04 Battle of Gallipoli

01:26:13 Armenian Genocide

01:30:12 Russia's Great Retreat 1915

01:54:39 Allied Fall Offensives 1915

02:07:21 War at Sea 1915

02:09:21 Italian Entry into WW1 1915

02:30:29 Serbian Campaign 1915

02:50:28 Conclusion

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