There were many battles that were fought during World War Two . One of the biggest land battles was Battle of the Bulge. The battle took place on December 16, 1944 under cover a very dense fog which was very difficult for the army to see. These conditions are hard to see in but to stage of the biggest land battle in the history of World War Two, it was truly an astounding event. The battle was fought in a heavily forested Ardennes region of eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg The fact that the battle was fought in a heavy forested area, with the conditions of the fog made the battle more dangerous, because the sight was poor and there was no clue where the opposite army was hidden.
Blitzkrieg In World War II, the German military used a tactic known Blitzkrieg. Blitzkrieg means simply “lightning war” in German. Blitzkrieg was developed in World War II because of the way war was fought in World War I. World War I was a long, stationary war. Trenches were used in the war and artillery and machine guns made mobile ground warfare almost impossible, and suicidal, for both sides.
Though the odds and numbers were against the British, it was the unorganized planning and overconfidence that led to the British army to ultimately win the battle against Germany. The invasion of France ended in June 1940; it was not until over a month later that Hitler made the decision to invade Britain, because he was unsuccessful in trying to get the British to surrender. The Battle of Britain was not an immediate, necessary battle to Hitler, but because he wanted and would benefit from air superiority, he put forth the effort to fight it anyway. The small number of British forces fueled overconfidence for Germany and
The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the most crucial and gruesome battles fought in Europe during World War Two. There were numerous reasons that Hitler saw fit for invading Stalingrad on September 1st, 1942 including his obsession for conquering the city named after his biggest rival, Josef Stalin. As the battle waged on both sides suffered immense casualties as they tried to gain a strangle hold on the important industrial city of Stalingrad. After 199 days of fighting, the Battle of Stalingrad concluded, beginning what many historians view as the turning point in Hitler’s European conquest as the Germans began their retreat from Russia. By 1942, Hitler had assumed control of the German Army (an army that no longer had the strength and resources seen in Operation Barbarossa) and he listened to his generals much less than he had in previous years.
The Battle of Cantigny The battle of Cantigny was a battle between the U.S. 1st division and the German 82nd Reserve Division. It only lasted for two days (May 28-30, 1918), but it was still a very important battle for the U.S. troops. It was the first U.S. offensive and victory made by the AEF, or the American Expeditionary Forces. The battle started when the division was ordered to take over Cantigny, a village in France, North of Paris, near Man Didier in the Somme Region, to test its offensive capabilities. The Americans suffered weeks of heavy artillery and gas from the Germans.
Poison Gas: Most of people assume that poison gas was used first by the German. It’s not really accurate. It was used by the French to stop the seemingly unstoppable German army advancing throughout Belgium and North-Eastern France. In one sense, it was an act of desperation but went against the 'rules' of war. However, while the French were the first to use a gas against an enemy, the Germans had been giving a great deal of thought to the use of poison gas as a way of defeating enemy.
Deighton, before becoming a writer, worked as an illustrator in New York, and he uses this skill as an artist to a great extent in Blitzkrieg. Throughout the book, there are many detailed illustrations of the different planes and tanks used by the Germans, not to mention elaborate diagrams that help the reader visualize. Deighton wrote this book because it attempts to reveal the actual strategy of Hitler, and why he was successful, and at the same time, why he would come to fall in the end. What is crucial to this book, though, is that it does not focus on the beliefs of Hitler, nor does it criminalize him. Rather, it gives the honest truth of the military events leading up to the French armistice.
The Allies were surprised by the Nazi attack. Actually, the Nazi wanted to spread the confusion within the Allies and some German soldiers were dressed as American soldiers. The allies could not use their air force because of the cloudy weather. The battle was launched by the Nazi, but by December 22, the situation began to turn around in favor of the Allied forces as the Nazi began to run out of fuel. Despite the Nazi efforts to win the battle, by late January the Nazi were out of fuel and had to abandon their tanks.
World War 1 was the first war were trench warfare played a vital role during the war. Trench warfare was a new way to fight a war and affected the war and soldiers in many different ways. Advancements in weaponry and fighting styles were reasons for the use of trenches in ww1. The trenches meant that the war became a stalemate and both sides searched for ways to break the stalemate. Fighting along the front was not continuous, timing and location could give soldiers vastly different experiences of the war.
On 1st July 1916 England attacked the German trenches in a big bombardment to finally push the Germans back and win the war. However, despite the preparations and an unbelievable amount of 1,732,873 shells raining down on the German trench, Britain did not succeed in defeating Germany. Instead it was a disaster and the British army suffered some of the worst casualties in its entire history. But was this down to Haig’s poor leadership, failing technology or the things that Britain could not control? Haig, Britain’s leader was an experienced cavalry officer but he sometimes underestimated the power of the German Army.