The plan for the Battle of the Somme was to assemble a huge new army of soldiers. The men and supplies would be stockpiled in the reserve trenches. German trenches would be bombarded solidly for 7 days. The British fired over 1,500,000 shells at the German lines, which should have destroyed the German dug-outs (which were 9 metres deep), tear up their barbed wire and kill most of the Germans. Also 10 mines would be dug under the German strong points.
Alistair Horne: The Price of Glory The battle of Verdun in is said to have been one of the greatest and most protracted battles in the history of warfare. The battle started in 1916; it was the longest war in World War 1. They thought the war would not last awhile with all of their artillery but they were wrong. . The war involved so many men, positioned on a small piece of land.
D-Day: The Day That Changed the Course of History By 1944, America had been an active ally to Europe in the war against Hitler’s Nazi Germany for almost three and a half years. During that time span, there occurred a series of battles between the Axis and the Allies. However June 6th, is the one day which stand out in the minds of many historian and servicemen across the globe. June 6, 1944, D-Day, the day in which tens thousands of young American soldiers, rushed over the code named beaches of “Utah” and “Omaha”, instantly becoming heroes faster than they could have ever dreamed. In the hours to follow, the scenes of Omaha and Utah, and the accompanying death and destruction molded and set a permanent fixation in the minds of the young American and European invaders.
This invasion starts to turn the tide of the war for the United States and its allies against the Germans. D-Day remains the largest seaborne invasion in history (D-Day, 2009). The operation D-Day codenamed Overlord lasted from June 6, 1944 to June 30, 1944. The invasion was not a success until the Allied forces established a strong foothold in Normandy France (D-Day, the Battle of Normandy, 1999). There is no official casualty figure for D-Day but it is estimated that more than 425,000 allied and German troops were killed, wounded, or went missing during the battle (Allies prepare for D-Day, 2011).
Between 5:30pm, and 5:50pm, the Allied gunfire support task groups began bombarding prearranged targets along the beaches. More than 5,000 ships and 4,000 ship-to-shore craft participated in the landings. British forces on the left flank and U.S. forces on the right had comparatively easy going, but U.S. forces in the center (Omaha Beach) met determined
Tyler Kvetensky The Battle of Iwo Jima The Battle of Iwo Jima was long and hard. It took many days and many troops lives. The Marines came out successful in the end. The battle lasted from the 19th of February to the 26th of March 1945. The first carrier raids against Iwo Jima began in June 1944.
Three thousand French troops were killed, and eight thousand wounded. Vietnamese suffered much more with eight thousand dead and twelve thousand wounded. In 1961, John F. Kennedy ordered more help for the South Vietnamese government in its war, On July 30, 1964 the war moved to two small North Vietnamese islands in the Gulf of Ton kin. During This twenty-five year period the ensuing war would create some of the strongest tensions in US history. Much of Vietnam's history has been under foreign rule by the Chinese.
Commanders would cost over 2,000 lives and scores of aircrafts on this tragic day (Film). The event that took place on December 7, 1941 in the movie clip from the USS Arizona memorial shows, Pearl Harbor Attack were so unexpected so brutal and chaotic, that always will be a very significant event in America and world history. American historians have told us the story that is to tell, but that’s not true. The Pearl Harbor attack happen over 60 years
Seemingly the most significant event to my Dad, the Kennedy assassination consumed the majority of the conversation. In the days following Kennedy’s death, he expressed the country to be in a stand still. The mere thought of a president being assassinated seemed to be such an absurd idea that the nation was in shock. Church memorials and the transportation of the President’s body across the country seemed to consume the media for the next few weeks. However, as the United States was recovering from the devastation, they began to worry about their future under Lyndon Johnson.
However, it was intercepted, decrypted, and published in newspapers as propaganda. The telegram and the excessive sea warfare definitely played a part in America going to war, however, there are additional possibilities, if not definite reasons, that lead the U.S. into war. Because of possible economic collapse according to the Glider Lehrman Institute of American History, "By 1917, American loans to the Allies had soared to $2.25 billion; loans to Germany stood at a paltry [measly] $27 million." If not anything else, this would be a huge reason to go to war. Two and a quarter billion dollars is a large sum of money, and if the United States were to lose this money, it would have more than likely been catastrophic and it would've brought about economic collapse in America.