What was the most decisive battle of World War 1?

Answer 1

There were many battles in WWII that might merit the status of the most decisive. Being a decisive battle means that if the outcome of the battle was different, the chances would be in favor that the outcome of the war would be different as well. As said, many battles have been called the most decisive, such as Battle of Midway, Battle of the Atlantic, Battle of the Bulge, Normandy/Operation Overlord, Kursk, and El Alemain. While all these battles were important, The Battle of Stalingrad was by far the most decisive of World War II. Stalingrad was were the Russians turned the tables on the Germans and started to push them back. It was the bloodiest battle in history, and more men were killed here than the rest of the Allies casualties put together. Think about it, if Germany had defeated the Soviets at Stalingrad Russia would have suffered a catastrophic defeat and would have lost millions more lives as well as the war in the east. With Russia out of the way, those millions of German soldiers could have made their way to the West and so D-Day could not have happened - too many Germans. All in all, with this battle the Russians pushed the Germans to the wall and defeated them. In Russia was the real war, the war where over 80% of the German casualties were. It was Russia that defeated Germany, D-Day just hastened the inevitable.

Answer 2

The Battle of the Somme was THE biggest one. It lasted a few months and was full of useless charges that cost MILLIONS of men their lives. Also, the battle at Ypres was big too. Most battles gained about 3 feet and cost thousands of lives! For 3 feet.

Answer 3

The second battle of the Marne because shortly thereafter the war ended. Megiddo in 1918 was the decisive defeat of the Turks. Allenbys loss of about 5 000 compares to 70 000 of the German aided Turkish forces. Tannenberg in 1914 is also very one sided, the Germans triumphant over the Russians in great numbers.