The Failure of the Dardanelle's Campaign to Achieve its Military Objectives

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The Failure of the Dardanelle's Campaign to Achieve its Military Objectives The First World War started in 1914, most of the fighting had taken place in France and Belgium on the western front. The fighting had come to a stalemate so Britain turned to the east, in order to do this they had to take over turkey to gain the upper hand. The Dardanelle's was a river that split up turkey; it was approximately 4 miles wide so it was literally impossible to take the navy through. Even though Britain knew this they still launched a naval attack but they failed miserably Britain was so desperate to take over Turkey, as it was a "gateway" to Germany as it would help surprise the Germans by attacking them from behind. Britain and Germany were both on stalemates at this point of the war. Both sides were equally matched, so the British had the Dardanelle's campaign thought up as it would put Britain in front and maybe win the war. But turkey entered the war at this point as well which equalised things out because Britain "thought that they had the upper hand" but they were soon to find out that they were REALLY wrong. But when Turkey joined the war their geographical position was very critical as Britain had an open door to get through but this door was slammed shut when turkey joined the war. But as Britain organised the Dardanelle's campaign they didn't anticipate turkey joining and when they did find out they were so confident that they thought that war would be over in a week, but this was soon proved to be wrong, half of the Russians supplies came through the Dardanelle's and if turkey joined the war then turkey could then stop these supplies coming and we needed to help Russia as Russia was an ally during this period of time. If Britain had won on the Dardanelle's then they could have taken over Germany with ease, and also Russia could get their supplies in a more fast and easier way.

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