This proved to be very costly for the Germans as they were forced to move through Belgium alone. Source A is a clear indication of the bottleneck this caused for German soldiers passing through Belgium. This Source reveals that strong Belgian resistance slowed German advances drastically. Further acknowledgement of this alteration causing problems for German troops can be found within Source B where it is stated that Germany “...paid insufficient heed to the problems of...the fatigue of troops” This source reveals that this specific change to the Schlieffen ultimately caused more problems for Germany than anticipated. Because of the fatigue of troops and lack of supplies the bottleneck in Liege caused, the Germans had to divert East towards the River of Marne.
Without the help of Sir Keith Park and the Royal Air Force, the casualty number would have been a lot larger. Sir Keith Park commandeered the 11th Group of Fighter Command. Keith also created a brilliant plan for the defense of London and the South East of England. Keith was in command of the squadron that fought for the Battle of Britain. The failure of the Luftwaffe to defeat the Royal Air Force in 1940 at the Battle of Britain is seen as Germany’s first major mistake in the Second World War against the western front.
Stalin ordered his troops to fight against the German invaders but suffered huge fatalities. Thus, Stalin demanded from the allies to open a second front; however, Churchill and Roosevelt delayed. The Allies began their North Africa campaign and succeeded in taking North Africa from the Germans. Next, US and Britain’s target was Sicily. However, the Germans were determined to resist against the Allied offensive.
Describe the operations used by the Allies to defeat Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, ultimately resulting in the unconditional surrender of each power. D day, battle of stalingrad, To attain the unconditional surrender of both Italy and Nazi Germany, The Allies relied on well planned and well timed operations. The surrender of both of these powers did not come easy or because of and one specific event, but rather a string of battles that wore down the Axis powers in Europe. Some operations however could be known as “ the straw that broke the camels back”. One in particular that really hit the Germans hard towards the would be end of WWII was the Battle of Stalingrad.
Thus, the North African campaign and the naval campaign for the Mediterranean were extensions of each other in a very real sense. The struggle for control of North Africa began as early as October 1935, when Italy invaded Ethiopia from its colony Italian Somaliland. That move made Egypt very wary of Italy's imperialistic aspirations. In reaction, the Egyptians granted Britain permission to station relatively large forces in their territory. Britain and France also agreed to divide the responsibility for maintaining naval control of the Mediterranean, with the main British base located at Alexandria, Egypt.
Certainly an important lesson learned from Stalingrad was the Germans’ over stretching of their military resources—a factor that led to the German armed forces not massing enough combat power to achieve its objectives. In the Stalingrad campaign, there were two instances where the Germans overstretched their military capabilities. The first was Hitler’s decision to split up the German army and advance against Stalingrad and the Caucasus concurrently, reducing the forces available for each. The second was Hitler’s order to capture the city of Stalingrad in addition to interdicting the Volga, thereby expanding the German army’s mission without giving it more forces. The net result was that the army had less forces than it needed to ensure the successful execution of its missions, and this contributed to its defeat.
Assess the effectiveness of the Allied strategies against Japan 1942-1945 which led to Japanese defeat Allied Strategies in the Pacific during WW2 were highly effective to a large extent which contributed to Japanese defeat in August 1945. Although other factors such as Japanese military- industrial complex decline and poor strategic planning also contributed to the outcome of the war. But the main factor is the comprehensive and effective strategies that implanted by the Allied during 1942-1945. As FDR said “For every advance that the Japanese have made… they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men.” In April1942, US took over from Britain in the lead role on the Pacific. Brits defended India, Indian Ocean and the US defended entire pacific region including China, Australia and New Zealand.
In his message to Congress in January 1936 Roosevelt indicted nations that had the "fantastic conception that they, and they alone, are chosen to fulfill a mission and that all others... in the world must... be subject to them." at the same time he issued a proclamation of neutrality and invoked the mandatory arms embargo -this supposition in Washington was the embargo that would hurt Italy more than Ethiopia since Ethiopia lacked dollars and buy arms. -actually the arms embargo did little hard to airily since it had its own munitions industry. Where the restriction of American exports really could hurt the Italian war making capacity was in oil. -but the neutrality act covered only implements of war.
This had serious consequences for not only Abyssinia but also the survival of the League itself and its principle of “collective security” In April 1935 the Stresa Front was formed, it was triggered by Germany's declaration of its intention to build up an air force, to increase the size of its army. It did not last long, However, falling apart when the Italians broke the peace with their attack on Abyssinia in October 1935.There a number of reasons why Italy’s fascist leader, Benito Mussolini, targeted Abyssinia for annexation in the mid-1930s, one was a retry of their failure attempt in 1896. Italy had previously been at war with Abyssinia but failed miserably, losing a huge amount of men and an enormous amount of casualties. The casualty rate suffered by Italian forces at the Battle of Adowa alone was greater than any other major European battle of the 19th century, beyond even the Napoleonic Era's infamous Waterloo and Eylau. The well-trained modern Italian forces had been defeated by backward, poorly equipped Abyssinian tribesmen.
The second world war was different as it had ideological (Nazism v Communism) as well as racial (Aryan v Slav) elements, but even many other countries were involved, the 'central' theme of both World Wars is Russo-German conflict. It seems strange to say it, but the result of the WWI was unsatisfactory for both Russia (revolution, political withdrawal from the conflict) and Germany (defeat, internal political turmoil that stopped short of revolution) and so it's almost like they ended up having a rematch. * The failure of the League of Nations as an organisation, principally over aggressive Italian imperialism in Ethiopia in the mid 1930s but also during the Spanish Civil War later in the decade. Because the League of Nations failed to act in those cases, Italy and Germany thought they could do what they liked: that lesson wasn't lost on Russia and Japan either. * Along the same lines as the failure of the League of Nations, the short term failure of the appeasement policy of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the late 1930s was a contributory factor, especially after Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938/39.