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.
These series of attacks that singlehandedly changed the course of the war by planting seeds of unrest into the minds the American public are known today as the Tet Offensive. Since the 1940’s, General Vo Nguyen Giap was the Commanding General of the North Vietnam Army. Giap served under Ho Chi Minh and was one of the main forces in the victory at Dien Bien Phu, which drove the French forces out of Vietnam in 1954. During the battle of Dien Bien Phu, General Giap is quoted stating that he was, “…willing to lose ten men for every one enemy soldier killed” (Bui Tin 2002, 67). This statement by itself is a clear indicator that General Giap was willing to do anything to defeat the French and win the war.
The Allies forced Japan to retreat and go on the offensive. When the Allies captured Guadalcanal in 1943, the Japanese went into full retreat back to Japan. While victories in the Pacific were occurring, the Soviets had defeated the Germans at Stalingrad, and Allied troops were removing the enemy from North Africa. The Allies were winning, but the war was not over. Every Little Bit Helps During the war, Germany occupied many European nations.
The aim was to sail straight through the precarious Dardanelles unchallenged and capture the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, therefore forcing the Turks out of the World War 1. This was a very ambitious strategy, which in retrospection was too simplistic. There were too many factors opposing the success of this campaign. The Dardanelles, being quite a narrow stretch of water, could be easily defended with only a few well placed sea mines and strategically positioned artillery. After the loss of 3 battleships on March the 18th, it was decided that the aid of the army would be required to defeat the forts that guarded the straits.
The D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944 was critical to allied success in World War II. It opened a second front in Western Europe, allowing the Allies to begin their march towards Berlin. There were many obstacles to overcome on D-Day, but it was ultimately successful because of the planning of the ally invaders, the fact that the Germans were unprepared because of a trick the allies had done, and the leadership of the in command soldiers on the beach. The soldiers on the beach overcame very large obstacles to win a very decisive battle in the European campaign. The morning of June 6th 1944 was overcast, rainy, windy, and choppy on the water.
Battle analysis of The Guadalcanal Campaign Name Tutor College Course Date The World War II remains one of the most violent and significant armed conflicts throughout the history of man. The battle for Guadalcanal occurred in 1942 after the marines of US arrived on 7th of August the same year. Their major objective of their landing was to deny the use of the canal by the Japanese to cut supply of military and communication to U.S, and New Zealand. The Japanese were unopposed to their landing, but it took a period of six months to conquer the Japanese in a battle that remains significant in the World War history. As the World War II studies continue, the battle for Guadalcanal remains one of the most significant battles for the American troops during the World War II.
Abstract The battle of Normandy is one of the most talked about battles during World War II. The battle of Normandy was a battle that consisted of air (Army Air Force), land (Army), and sea (Navy) soldiers from the United States, France, Great Britain, and Canada hoping to bring liberation back to France. The battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord, started on 6 June 1944 and ended on 25 August 1944. D-Day began with an airborne assault from British and American soldiers landing behind the Atlantic Wall to secure a bridge codenamed Pegasus. Next, American, Canadian, and British soldiers conducted an amphibious assault on the hardened five beaches of Normandy to overrun the Atlantic Wall manned by Hitler’s Army.
Although, the Allies started ripping through before the fight started and the Germans were still able to get through. The Allies took offense and attacked the Germans on a 20 mile front between Aisne and Marne River. The American soldiers were a majority in the Allied forces. In charge of all Allied operations, French general, General Ferdinand Foch, put the 1st US Army in charge at St. Mihiel. Germans had then
The Germans transferred all of the soldiers in the Eastern Front over to the Western front to fight the British and the French. The 1918 Spring Offensive or Kaiserschlacht (Kaiser's Battle), was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during World War I, which marked the deepest advances by either side since 1914. The Germans had realized that their only remaining chance of victory was to defeat the Allies before the overwhelming human and matériel resources of the United States could be deployed. They also had the temporary advantage in numbers afforded by nearly 50 divisions freed by the Russian surrender (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk). However, the strategic goals of the operation were lacking.
al. 744) This was a very vicious thing that the Germans had done to the US GI's. The American troops led by Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe led the troops to Bastogne, a city of Belgium, were badly surrounded and our numbered by the Germans, that is were the American troops were demanded to surrender. In the end there were 800 tanks lost on each side, and 1,000 German aircraft lost as well. This was a lot of machinery to have lost Hitler could not replace all the things he lost, so he had nothing left to do but to