Yes it did. But arguably the Ottomans were never going to beat a Christian coalition. Before or after.

1683 never forget..... Poland saves Europe

With all due respect to Bulgaria, the Vardar Offensive and Bulgaria's surrender was not a decisive factor. As for Turkey it was already a weak state, facing internal revolts and their surrender did not influenced that much the overall course of the war.

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D-Day wasn't that important militarily. From a political aspect, it would play a role in early cold war politics.

Bulgaria was a weak state, but it gave a big morale victory to the Allies (one down, three to go). Turkey was facing internal revolts, but other than Jerusalem and middle Iraq, the British did not make more progress until 1918 fall. Also, internal revolts were happening in Germany and Austriahungary, too.

Stalingrad, 1942-1943


This is the battle that effectively ended Hitler’s quest for world dominance and started Germany down the long road towards ultimate defeat in World War Two. Fought between July, 1942 and February, 1943, by the time it was over, 1.5 million men had been killed, captured, or wounded, with 91,000 Germans being taken prisoner and an entire German Army being wiped from the face of the Earth. So bad were German losses that the German army never fully recovered and was forced to largely take the defensive for the remainder of the war. (With the possible exceptions of the Battle of Kursk in July, 1943 and the Battle of the Bulge in December, 1944, the German Army never mounted a major offensive again.) While it’s unlikely that a German victory at Stalingrad would have cost the Russians the war, it would certainly have extended it by many months, possibly even giving the Germans the time required to perfect their own version of the atomic bomb.

Midway Island, 1942


What Stalingrad was to the Germans, the naval air engagement that raged between Japan and the United States for three days in June, 1942, was for the Japanese. Admiral Yamamoto’s plan was to seize Midway Island—a tiny atoll some four hundred miles west of Hawaii—which he planned to use as a springboard from which to attack the strategic islands later. Much to his surprise, he was met by a taskforce of American carriers under the command of Admiral Chester Nimitz and, in a battle that could have easily gone either way, he lost all four of his aircraft carriers, along with all their aircraft and some of his finest pilots, to Admiral Nimitz’ smaller American fleet. The defeat effectively spelled the end to Japanese expansion across the Pacific and dealt Japan a defeat she would never recover from. This is also one of the few battles in World War Two in which it was the Americans who were outnumbered and outmatched and yet they still won. Way to go, Chester!

Yorktown, 1781


In terms of numbers, this was a pretty puny battle (8,000 American troops, supported by 8,000 French troops, against some 9,000 British troops) but by the time it ended on October 19, 1781, it changed the world forever. The indomitable British Empire, the super power of its day, should have easily defeated the rag-tag colonists under George Washington, and for most of the war, they generally had the upper hand. By 1781, however, the upstart Americans had learned how to fight and, having acquired the assistance of England’s arch enemy, France, had become a small but professional fighting force. As a result, the British under Cornwallis found themselves trapped on a peninsula between the determined Americans on the one side and a French fleet on the other that made escape impossible and so, after a couple of weeks of fighting, they surrendered. In doing so, the Americans defeated the world’s premier military power and gained independence for some backwoods country in the new world called the United States of America.

1. Moscow battle is more important - it failed Operation Barbossa and was the bloodiest battle in history.

2. Why would Japan need Midway island? Japan weren't really trying in the Pacific island front, they were too busy working it in Indonesia and Indochina. The aircraft carriers were pretty much best utilised in the Pacific islands, but that dœsn't mean they wre really trying to keep worthless islands.

3. No, Britain was fighting against two times as many, including highly trained French troops. Also, premier military power then was Russia. Also, the whole war was unimportant, and like you said, the battle was puny.

America's war for independence affected France's revolution. It is by far an important part of history. Of course, America only becomes interesting again after Monroe doctrine and stops being interesting again after manifest destiny, and etc.

What? France's revolution didn't begin until the 1789, long after when America won the war (1782?)

Louis XVI bankrolled the American Revolution, putting France in enormous debt ( the biggest economic problem in France in 1780s) leading to the French Revolution, then Napoleon.

France was already in debt before the 1780s - that's like saying that, you suicided because you don't have enough money, but you paid your money to the store, so the store killed you.

Xy, if you don't understand cause and effect, why do you think yourself such a smart one?

Because he can't admit that America is or ever was important

Tsh, America is important, but not really until after World War 1. Like I said, France's debt problems originated much earlier, I think from Louis XIV's excessive spendings.

It wasn't really financial, though finance was a factor. They are saying that it was the ideas the ordinary French soldiers were exposed to. They were fighting for equality and freedom. When they came home they looked around at the absolutist monarchy they were under and realized that if it could change in America it could change in France too.

In a similar war Black soldiers posted to Europe during World War II returned to America having seen a world in which things could be different.

The American Revolution opened a Pandora's box for the governments of the day. It started the Age of Revolutions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Revolution

Of course you can't reduce the French Revolution to a paragraph but The American Revolution certainly influenced it.

Not really true, the French revolution was mainly influenced by the philosophers and thinkers of the enlightenment period (Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, etc), so even before the American revolution ever happened. Btw, the American revolution was actually influenced by those European thinkers more than the contrary.

And answering to Juq, Russia wasn't the first military power during that period. Compared to western Europe, Russia was still technologically in the middle age. Stop saying insanities.

Louis XVI bankrolled the American Revolution, putting France in enormous debt ( the biggest economic problem in France in 1780s) leading to the French Revolution, then Napoleon.

"The Wars of Religion crippled France in the late 16th century, but a major victory over Spain in the Thirty Years' War made France the most powerful nation on the continent once more. In parallel, France developed its first colonial empire in Asia, Africa, and in the Americas. Under Louis XIV France achieved military supremacy over its rivals, but escalating conflicts against increasingly powerful enemy coalitions checked French ambitions and left the kingdom bankrupt at the opening of the 18th century."