Study On Gallipoli Campaign

Gallipoli campaign is a famous battle which took place in the Middle East during the First World War.It has an important position in the Middle East war history and world war history.Foreign scholars have done a wealth of research about Gallipoli campaign, but the domestic related research is very weak.In this article, the author will research the campaign from the background, the process, the result,the evaluation of both sides and the influence of the battle from a comprehensive and systematic view.The content of this article have three parts which consists of the introduction part, the text part and the conclusion part.The introduction part mainly expounds the selected topic background and significance of the paper,analysis and summaries the domestic and foreign research present situation and clarifies the article research ideas and research methods and main innovation place.The text of this article includes six chapters:The first chapter defines the concept of the Gallipoli campaign.At first, to define the concept of the word campaign from the military profession;Then,to compare the difference among compaigh,batte,war and fight; At last,to define the concept of the Gallipoli campaign.The second chapter analysis the background and reason of Gallipoli campaign.This article gives Gallipoli campaign a insight of a long period of time from the perspective of emergence and development of the Eastern question and thinks that the outbreak of the battle is a product that is produced by the game of the big powers in the new period;Then,this article analysis the background for a more specific analysis from the change of the Ottoman Empire’s foreign policy change after the outbroken the First World War and the process of the First World War; At last,the article analysis the reasons of the Gallipoli campaign from the Allied group’s military motivation, political motives and interests.The third chapter studies the battle progress of Gallipoli campaign.At first,this article do a important basis for studing the battle process flowed by analyzing from four sides:the production of the opertional plan of Britain,the Gallipoli peninsala and Dardanelles strait geographical environment,both attitude and preparation of the battle,the comparation of the opposing forces;Then,this article will do a comprehensive study of the battle process by analying three stages of Gallipoli campaign:British and French troops’ operation from the sea,tractical adjustment and landing operation;Lastly,this article will analysze the result of the battle.The fourth chapter studies the reason why the Turkish army won the battle and the reason why British and French troops make a failure by analyzing the preparation of war,the terrain conditions,the commander’s ability,the intelligence work,the quality of soldiers and the internal cohesion of both sides.The fifth chapter studies the impact of Gallipoli campaign.This chapter analyze the impact of Gallipoli campaign from five parts:The impact to both battle sides,the neutral nations and the First World War;The impact to the Arab national uprising to against the rule of Ottoman Empire and the Middle East battlefield;The miltary signficance of Gallipoli campaign;The sixth chapter studies the impact of the heritage of Gallipoli campaign to Australian national and ethnic idtentityand to the Turkish Republic.Conclusion part covers two contents.Firstly, doing a general summary to full text content; Secondly,there are four revelations about Gallipoli campaign research:what the Middle East battle in First World War affect the amry class who make an important effect on the process of Middle East history after the First World War;Making a better undestanding of the relation between the Ottoman Empire and Germany;Gallipoli campaign’s postion and affection in the warfare history;Traditional culture returning rundom under the global vision;Giving author’s view to the research of the Middle East war in First World War.