WW1 Summary Part 5: The Battle of Verdun - The War Moves to the Middle East

The winter 1916 ends with the invasion of Serbia and Montenegro and unrestricted submarine warfare. And the spring of 1916 starts with the Battle of Verdun at the Western Front and Russian successes in Anatolia. The British are in trouble in Ireland and in Mesopotamia but are still carving up the Middle East in the Sykes-Picot-Agreement. The Eastern Front drowns in spring thaws while the Russian homefront is in disarray.