Douglas Haig was leading the British, and was a very stubborn leader. Haig’s tactics were for the British to simply walk over to the German trenches. After the first day there were 60 000 casualties. Haig being the stubborn leader that he was did not change the tactics at all after losing all these men. Other then the fact that the British had an awful tactic, they did not have the right weaponry.
They have larger area and long range to fight. it was difficult for U.S because the Germans were hiding in the buildings and used tanks and stuff. The American soldiers had to live in the foxholes. The soldiers had not enough ammo and clothing. The soldiers felt depression because their friends dead in front of them.
At 7:30 am on the 1st of July, the British began a massive attack against German forces. During the previous week, 250,000 Allied shells had hit German ranks and 100,000 British soldiers poured out of their trenches and into ‘No Man's Land’, expecting to find the way cleared for them. However, scores of heavy German machine guns had survived the artillery assault and the infantry were
Trench Warfare World War 1 is most notably known for the vicious fighting that lead to mass death all over Europe. This bloody war consumed approximately eight million soldiers. This does not include the number of wounded soldiers or the countless number of civilians that lost their lives. Trench Warfare had a lot to do with the huge number of casualties that accorded during World War 1. All Quite on the Western Front helps to give a real insight to what a battle was like during WW1.
Although the conditions of the agreement seemed extremely severe, the allied countries had no sympathy for the Germans. They were forced to pay excessive amounts of money as reparation fees to make up for all the damage and destruction that was caused during the war. 13% of German territory was given away and many important industrial areas were controlled by western allies. This caused a major impact on the economy and had many affects to not only the government, but German citizens as well. Many people became unemployed and were no longer able to support their families.
Walter says that “To further increase our discomfort, it was snowing hard. The wind was blowing the flakes around so hard you could barely see. What was worse, we were not properly equipped for that type of weather” (Barnes). He also says the snow was about two feet deep. The grueling conditions surely affected the way the battle was fought, especially that when the weather was too bad the allies couldn’t use air support to help the
In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted
One in particular that really hit the Germans hard towards the would be end of WWII was the Battle of Stalingrad. During the Battle of Stalingrad Hitler’s stubbornness and hatred for Stalin served against him causing him to lose a huge portion of his army and forced him to abandon his eastern offensive. The Russian counterattack on the over ambitious German offensive at The Battle of Stalingrad trapped a bulk of the German offensive. This caused the death of about 350,000 German soldiers which was a huge blow to their army. 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.
His army also consisted of millions of poor, starving peasants with bad equipment, poor supplies of rifles and ammunition. In 1916, two million soldiers were killed or seriously wounded, and one third of a million taken prisoners. The Russian population was horrified. They considered the Tsar irresponsible for taking over the army and held him responsible for everything; as a result instability was growing at an alarming rate for the Tsar who had once held himself so assuredly in power. Nicholas II took this course of action to assure himself he still had complete control of Russia.
Hitler deliberately expressed his hate toward Jews and gave ample warnings, as it was all written down in his autobiography “Mein Kampf”. In 1935, the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship and civil rights. Jewish rights were steadily restricted, as in many cases Jewish political and intellectual leaders were the first to be sent to concentration camps. The Night of Broken Glass, on November 9, 1938 lead to the death of approximately 100 Jews, while other 30,000 were sent to concentration camps. Jewish businesses along with almost every synagogue in Germany were damaged or completely destroyed.