GW8: Turkey and the Gallipoli Campaign

Key Battles of American History

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4.6 • 936 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode, Sean and James turn to the Eastern Mediterranean to examine the Ottoman Empire’s entry into the Great War and the tragic Allied attempt to seize the Dardanelles. We trace how Turkey joined the Central Powers, setting the stage for the Gallipoli Campaign—an ambitious plan to knock the Ottomans out of the war that instead ended in disaster and immense loss of life. The campaign’s failure reshaped Allied strategy, toppled political careers, and helped lay the foundations of modern Turkey.

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0:28.3	or Google Play Store and download it today. War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding
0:41.9	right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its
0:47.5	size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for
0:53.1	understanding American history. Welcome to
0:55.8	Key Battles of American History, a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens
1:00.8	of the most important battles of America conflict that changed the world forever.
1:21.8	I'm your host, James Early, as always. And as always, I am joined by my co-host and my good buddy, Sean McIre.
1:30.3	Well, in our last episode, Sean and I explored how World War I spread beyond the Western Front into a truly global conflict.
1:38.0	We traced massive campaigns across Eastern Europe where Germany and Austria-Hungary drove deep into Russian territory, and we looked at
1:45.6	the West where repeated Allied offenses in Artois, Champagne, and Iprca failed to break the stalemate.
1:52.9	We also discussed the fall of Serbia, the opening of the Salonica Front, Italy's entry into the war,
1:59.0	and the British advance up the Tigris that led to the siege
2:02.1	of Kut al-Amara. By the end of 1915, millions were dead or displaced, and it had become clear
2:09.0	that the war would be long, brutal, and worldwide in scale. This week, we take you to the extreme
2:15.4	southeastern corner of Europe and the eastern Mediterranean.
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