Tuesday 13th December Why was the Battle of the Somme such a disaster for the British Army? On July 1st 1916, a battle commenced that made the bloodiest day inn British military history. 60,000 British men died on the first day of fighting, with a third of them perishing in the first hour. The aim of this essay is to examine factors of the battle and decide which one contributed the most to the failure of the battle. The plan for the Battle of the Somme was to assemble a huge new army of soldiers.
The salient, between Orel and Belgorod, jutted westwards for some eighty miles. The Germans planned to cut the base of the salient with a pincer movement. From the north, a heavily reinforced 9th Army would attack from Orel through Ponyri towards Kursk. In the south the 4th Panzer Army would attack from the southwest of Belgorod through Oboyan and link up with the northern pincer at Kursk. * Warthegau * One of four regions in western Poland annexed in 1939 to the Third Reich as the incorporated territories * Reichsgau Wartheland was the name given by Nazis to the largest subdivision of the territory of Greater Poland which was directly incorporated into the German Reich after defeating the Polish army in 1939.
For example, the first part of the book takes place in the city of Leningrad while it is under siege by the German forces. The horrible conditions are reflected when Lev says “others dwindled while the ration cards were cut and cut again, halving those who looked like circus strongmen before the invasion” (Benioff 8). The cutting of ration cards is described in this quote, because as the war wore on there was not enough food to feed everyone. As I already stated, the authorities in Leningrad did not think there was not enough food to last more then a few months, but by this point in the book it was already a while afterwords. The shortage of food was also shown with the very quest that this entire book was based of off.
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). The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Bulge was the largest land battle of World War II. “More than a million men participated in this battle including some 600,000 Germans, 500,000 Americans, and 55,000 British” (Lopez, 2009). The Battle of the Bulge was one of the worst battles in terms of losses of American Forces in World War II. At the end of the battle the casualties were highest out of the entire war.
The Battle of Berlin SFC Mike Watkins MP SLC Class 004-12 Abstract This paper will provide a review of the Battle of Berlin. The battle was part of the Soviet offensive in response to the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The operation encompassed multiple battles culminating in the capture of Berlin and the death of Adolf Hitler. This paper covers a broad spectrum of events condensed into a short overview of the operation. The long reaching effects of this battle shaped the world for the next fifty years and even today the shadows of horror left behind mark the city of Berlin and the country of Germany.
For the third division, the initiation to battle was even more devastation. This time the Germans mounted an attack
After some debate, the German senior command agreed on a thrust deep into Russian lines out of East Prussia. The resulting "winter war" inflicted another 190,000 casualties on the Russians, but petered out when the Austrian forces to the south utterly failed to dislodged the Russians. They instead suffered another embarrassing defeat, and even lost control of Dukla Pass, a prime route onto the Hungarian plains. Only severe weather and their unfortunate supply situation prevented the Russians from cracking into the core of the Dual Monarchy's
The Battle of the Bulge World War 2 was fought from September 1939 and ending August 15, 1945, it was the biggest world war in to history of the world. The battle to end the war was The Battle of The Bulge. This battle was fought in forested areas of the Ardennes Mountains region of Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front. It was kept very secret by the Germans because it was a surprise attack. The Allied forces were to busy worrying about there offensives and were caught off guard.
They needed the Americans, and they used an ingenious tactic to cause the Americans to join the war: the death of its own civilians. The civilians on the ship, warned by the Germans, refused to listen to a warning, causing their death on the Lusitania. The total number of Americans who died represented a very small portion of the United States’ total population. The American public over-exaggerated the sinking of the Lusitania and overreacted to the death of very few people compared to America as a whole. The British blockade kept all trades away from the Germans, including food (Ghost Liners 124).Yet, when the Germans retaliate, the Americans hate them for it.
Causes of the World War1 The world faced two brutal wars in the span of 25 years which changed the course of history. The first one popularly known as the Great War lasted for 4 years (1914-1918) much to the dismay of most nations. This answer will put forth what the causes for the Great War were and what impact did these causes have on the outbreak of war 1914. The world war one was fought between 2 hostile groups, namely the triple alliance and the triple entente. The former consisted of Russia, France and Britain, while the latter was formed by Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Italy too being a part of this for a brief period.