10th grade Social Studies assignment The failings of the democracy in Germany between 1918 and 1923 Why was the new democratic system in Germany unpopular by 1923, and how was Hitler able to take advantage of that unpopularity? After their defeat in the First World War, Germany and its government faced many harsh consequences which had a great impact on the entire country and its political system. Each consequence created a substantial change in German history which made a chain of events that led to the rein of Adolf Hitler. Because the new democratic system proved to be unsuccessful, the people of Germany blamed their government and after that, things began to get chaotic and everyone suffered. The problems began after the 1st World War, and after the German government signed the papers at the Treaty of Versailles, agreeing to its conditions and punishments, the government was very much resented by the people.
The Great Escape: Dunkirk January 27, 2011 World History since 1900’s On May 27, 1940, one million allied soldiers were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk. With the Nazi forces breathing down their neck, Britain pulled a miracle out of their hat. The evacuation of the troops on the beaches of Dunkirk was a victory for the allies and a major mistake for the Nazi regime. This essay will examine how Britain rescued 1/3 of a million troops, how the Nazis let 1/3 of a million troops go and why Sir Keith Park and the Royal Air force were major benefactors to the Dunkirk escape. Without these contributions, the miracle of Dunkirk would have been the tragedy of Dunkirk.
The handling of war economy was poorly coordinated and this accounts for the weaknesses in German war production in the years 1939 – 1945. How far do you agree? It is fair to say that the poor coordination contributed a significant amount in the weaknesses that were apparent in German war production between the years 1939 to 1945, but only to an extent. Poor coordination being a strong contributing factor, along with the idea that there was no central power, with different people controlling different areas of the Nazi party, for example, Goebbels heading up the propaganda machine and Himmler running the SS. There are both strengths and weaknesses that support the idea that the weaknesses in German war production was down to poor coordination within the war economy.
Firstly, the British leant from their mistakes from the beginning of the war and started placing commanders into the front line so that they could easily and quickly give out new commands. Also, German’s numbers were significantly diminished and even though the British lost a lot, the German’s also lost many men and materials. Even though we ended the war with many casualties, the German’s numbers were down to 650, 000 by the end. It is difficult to declare the Battle of the Somme a victory for either side. Many argue that the battle was a disaster, saying that the Battle of the Somme delivered so many deaths for the British.
He remembers that the ‘beaches were full of troops’ and he just had to ‘dig in and wait’. The soldier had ‘just a few months with a rifle and no proper field training’. This tells us how ill-prepared many of the soldiers being saved from Dunkirk were, contrasting with the prepared Germans and their effective military technique, Blitzkrieg. Ivan Daunt comes to the interpretation that Dunkirk was a defeat because he believes that the B.E.F was ill equipped while the Germans had ‘equipment and organisation’. The view that the B.E.F was ill equipped and unprepared contrasts with the view of Winston Churchill in Source B7, who believes Dunkirk was a success achieved by ‘valour’, ‘perseverance’, ‘perfect discipline’, ‘faultless service’, ‘resource’ and ‘skill’.
This misstep by the Germans resulted in the destruction of German supply lines leading towards Stalingrad, leaving the Germans with no military support or food. This was a major defeat for Germany because it forced them to take a defensive position rather then an offensive one against Russia on the Eastern Front. Another key operation in the defeat of Germany and Italy was the D Day invasion codenamed overlord. This operation was comprised of a united effort between The United States, Great Britain and Canada to invade the Eastern coast of France at various points of the beach. This operation gave the Allies a foothold in France which was extremely important because it created another front for the Germans to defend.
Germans would shell British trenches and the British soldiers would be ready for the attack. The aim of this battle was to ease pressure the Germans had put on the nearby village of Verdun, using the battle as a distraction. They relied heavily on the ‘New Army’ – the civilian recruits brought in by Lord Kitchener’s advertising campaign. These thousands upon thousands of men had absolutely no battle experience and insufficient training. At 7:30 am on the 1st of July, the British began a massive attack against German forces.
Other then the fact that the British had an awful tactic, they did not have the right weaponry. Haig was a strong believer in Calvary, and was skeptical of the newer machinery. When the British walked across no mans land the Germans just mowed them down with their machine guns. At the end of this battle there was 400 000
Why were the Germans defeated in World War Two between 1941 and 1945? By Katie Goodwin The Germans (along with Japan) were defeated in World War two by the allied forces; the USA, the UK and the USSR. These were not natural allies, they have different political beliefs, the USA and the UK were Capitalists with USSR as communists, and they only became allies because they had a common enemy, the axis. The war stretched between 1st September 1939 when Hitler and the Nazis invaded Poland causing the UK and France to declare war, until the Russians reached Berlin causing Hitler to commit suicide and Germany to surrender on 7th May 1945 then Atomic Bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 14th August causing the final surrender of Japan. The mistakes that occurred by the Germans assisted the axis empire to be defeated, some examples of these errors are attempting to fight the war on multiple fronts, deciding to attack Russia as well as being at war with the USA as both of these countries could easily outnumber and surround the Nazis although Germany may have had little choice in fighting the USA as Britain was their closest ally and they would have got involved to defend their friend and Russia was planning to enter the war a few months after she was attacked anyway.
With the failure at Dunkirk which saw the successful evacuation of the 300,000 British and French thousand solders from certain slaughter, even though this was seen as the best outcome of a dire situation the British expansionary force left all of their weapons, vehicle and equipment on the shores of northern France. This left Britain unable to fight Germany at all in the European theatre. During this time Britain had its backs against the wall and could only dream about putting upa strong land offensive again and with the surrender of the French army June 22 1940 on the very same train that the armistice treaty was signed back in 1918 a war which again plunged the whole of Europe into war. With this lack of equipment and power behind our army the war efforts for Britia were mainly confined to the battle over the skies of Britain and the war beging waged across th Atlantic as one of Britain's weakness is that it was not self sufficient and had to import allot of its food from America thanks to the lend lease Act which ensured the America would give aid to Britain as long as the British ships and aircraft based in Greenland could keep the German U boats off the backs of the transport which would bring the supplies in Britain. However it was not just the seas that saw the Force of the German military might Hitler had also launched in co ordination with the commander of the Luftwaffe to bomb British air base in a huge bid for air superiority which the Germans needed in order to invade Britain, this had started out with a tactic to bomb the British air fields in an attempt to lure the British fighters up for a large air battle in which the Germans could wipe out all of the British fighters.