Why did allied troops invade gallipoli in 1915?
they wanted to shore up the eastern front.
they wanted to break through the western front.
they wanted to protect shipping routes to russia.
they wanted to block shipping routes to germany.

they wanted to protect shipping routes to russia.

explanation:

the gallipoli campaign was fought on the ground between 25 april 1915 and 9 january 1916 on the gallipoli peninsula near the dardanelles straits. the allied bombardment of the turkish defences had already begun a few months prior to this in february 1915. the gallipoli campaign was championed and pushed forward by the first lord of the admiralty, winston churchill, and was geared toward ending the war quickly.

by opening a new war front designed to stretch the german army and that of their ottoman empire ally, turkey, churchill wanted to push them past the breaking point. the central powers (germany and austria-hungary and their allies) were already fighting the war on two fronts: on the western front – france and belgium – as well as fighting the russian army in the east. so the idea was simple: to create another front to force the german military command to further split their armies to support the turks and to assist russia.

on 25 november 1914, the plan to create this new front was brought before the imperial war council. the council was made up of the most senior politicians in the cabinet along with the most senior military commanders and it was their job to plan and run the war effort and to evaluate possible military actions. the council gave its agreement to proceed. british troops in egypt were readied to head out towards gallipoli. the imperial war council scheduled the attack date for late february or early march 1915.

during the war council meeting, there was some disagreement on the number of troops needed and leadership roles. although originally he didn’t want to commit troops to the dardanelles campaign, when the amphibious assault became an inevitability, churchill, as first lord of the admiralty, pushed for more troops; first lord kitchener, the secretary of war and head of the british army, disagreed.

the initial plan was to launch a naval attack. british and french warships would force their way up the dardanelles straits and attack constantinople (now istanbul). the ships would destroy the turkish forts on the mainland which defended the straits and royal marines would be landed to destroy the guns the naval ships couldn’t reach.

early parts of the attack went well. but the turks had planted underwater mines and the royal navy proved ineffective in clearing the way. in the initial assault three battlecruisers were sunk and many other ships damaged. churchill pressured the british commander admiral carden to increase his efforts and the fighting intensified. naval losses mounted and carden fell ill with stress. eventually the naval forces were pulled back and it was decided to land troops and capture gallipoli which would then clear the way to constantinople.

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