The allies decided to attack Gallipoli on April 15th, 1915 largely by the urging of Sir Winston Churchill who saw it as a way to end the stalemate on the western front. British strategists had also for many years believed that the best defense of Egypt and the Suez Canal was an attack on Turkey. If the campaign succeeded it would be a decisive blow to the Germans and give the upper hand to the Allies. …
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…shift some of the forces on the bloody western front and relieve the pressure on Russia. The allies predicted that by doing this, it would stretch the German army and lead to an earlier end to the war. The Gallipoli campaign was a good plan in theory but because of inaccurate intelligence the attacks never succeeded. If it succeeded as planned, the benefits of it would give the allies an enormous advantage over the Germans.