Why Did Gallipoli Lose Ww1

In early 1915 World War I had come to a standstill. One of the causes of the Gallipoli campaign was to attempt to break the stalemate on the Western Front. The Western Front was lacking productivity with no progress being made by either side. The British Government soon realised that an attack would be more useful somewhere else. On November 24th 1914, Winston Churchill suggested to the War Council that they should create a new front to fight on. The plan was to create another front, the Gallipoli Peninsula,other than the Western Front, in which they would fight, forcing the Germans to split their army to cover the new front and support the Austrian Army. This plan meant that the German army would be spread thin across Europe so that they would

The Gallipoli campaign was initially intended to have a direct naval route to Russia, have new areas to attack the central powers and therefore spreading the German army across Europe, by seizing the Dardanelles Strait. All of this also meant that it was planned that it would shorten the war for the allies to have a success. This however was not the case. Because the allies failed in seizing the Dardanelles Strait, it meant that they could not re-arm Russia. It also meant that they were unable to knock Turkey out of the war. If Russia were to be re-armed it would have meant that they could defend themselves and the allies would have more defense and forces that could be used to fight against the Central Powers. The Gallipoli campaign made no progress in the war, there were only

From the Gallipoli Campaign, 2779 New Zealanders died, and 4852 were wounded. The whole country felt the significance of losing 2779 men, not just the friends and families of those men. The Gallipoli campaign made no progress in the War, nothing was achieved but lives were lost as a costly failure. This is significant as the New Zealand soldiers fought hard and were committed to fighting in this battle. Their determination to stay fighting was admirable, even though they knew the campaign was failing, as the allied troops were up against 14 Ottoman divisions, whereas there were only 13 allied divisions. The loss of lives were significant as it was such a large number of New Zealand men who lost their lives in such a fruitless battle. The original war records stated that there were 8556 New Zealand soldiers that landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula. From this figure there were 7447 men who were wounded or that died. This meant that the casualty rate for the Gallipoli Campaign for New Zealand mean was 87%. This figure was significant as it was such a large number of the New Zealand soldiers that had casualties. The original casualty rate was also far higher than any other country’s. This high casualty rate was significant as it was such a huge percentage of casualties compared to other countries and it showed that the New Zealand men were