The plan for the Battle of the Somme was to assemble a huge new army of soldiers. The men and supplies would be stockpiled in the reserve trenches. German trenches would be bombarded solidly for 7 days. The British fired over 1,500,000 shells at the German lines, which should have destroyed the German dug-outs (which were 9 metres deep), tear up their barbed wire and kill most of the Germans. Also 10 mines would be dug under the German strong points.
At the front Johnston was encouraging his men when he was hit. The medics couldn’t find the entrance wound before he bleeds to death. Johnston remains the highest-ranking American military officer ever to be killed in action Eventually the hornets net had become completely surrounded and the Union had to surrender their stand. The ones who stayed and fought had to surrender but this gave Grant enough time to reorganize his late defensive line. • Shiloh
The Battle of the Bulge took place on December 16 1944. The Germans mobilized the last chance they had to win the war. The Germans wanted to cut the American forces in to two parts, because this way they could easily be destroyed. Hitler felt this was his last chance to win, because his forces were being pushed back and soon they would run out of the resources they would need to win the war. Hitler was mobilizing a task force of 500,000 Germans soldiers.
He sought to negotiate a solution with them and insisted that there is no wider war. MacArthur's going public in arguing for war with China- General MacArthur insisted the U.S was fighting the Chinese and that it should attack China either by an invasion or a bombing of the border. He was warned by Truman more than once to keep his objections to himself. However in March 1951, he wrote a letter to House Republican leader Joseph W. Martin stating “There is no substitute for victory”. Shortly after he was relieved of command which caused a huge public outrage.
For his battlefield he chose the fortress-ringed city of Verdun, a position, he correctly believed, so essential to the French that France would fight to the last man to hold it. He hoped to lure French forces into the narrow, dangerous salient, laughter them with artillery fire and thus “bleed France to death.” He was the first commander to state clearly that the aim of an offensive was attrition though he did not tell his field army commander, the Crown Prince, this. On February twenty-first, the German barrage began and for the next ten months both sides threw soldiers and shells at each other in a nightmare of death. The German Army bled as well. As Verdun was a symbol of life for France, it's fall became a moral necessity for the prestige of the German Army.
Fortunately, American forces were able to repel the NVA attack and inflict heavy losses on the viet-cong, but while also taking loses themselves. This tet offensive showed America that it was perhaps in a war that it was not bound to win. Due to the heavy losses of the NVA and viet-cong, President Nixon from 1969 to 1974 was able to begin troop withdrawal and the process of vietnamization. This process of vietnamization meant that there were huge American withdrawals from the north as well as a massive effort to train the south Vietnamese army so they could defend themselves. This whole process finally was at its end on April 29th 1975, with the famous televised withdrawal of the embassy marines form Saigon and the famous footage of helicopter being pushed over the side of a U.S. carrier to make room for
Purpose: Delay the enemy in sector, west of PL London for 24 hours after contact, in order to allow the Division to build combat power and transition to counterattack. II. Key Tasks: • Engage the enemy: o Use close air support (CAS) sorties and artillery to attack (disrupt and destroy) enemy tanks/forces prior to engagement. o Neutralize the enemy. o Disrupt the enemy’s approach and force the enemy to dismount its infantry to slow the forces down as much as possible, while preserving our combat power.
In order to stop communism the United States did very unconstitutional acts and made many enemies with our cause. When North Korea tried to take over South Korea, the U.S. immediately saw a threat to the Truman doctrine’s man principle and sent troops over to Korea to fight and stop communism. When we began to help, the United States soon realized we were fighting in a style of war we never faced before. Many of the soldiers sacrificed their lives because America was very eager to contain communism any way we could. We gained control after the deaths of over 60,000 of our men were killed in the line of duty.
The decision prevented millions of American casualties, millions of Japanese casualties, and served as a deterrent to the USSR expansion. The war in the Pacific had been raging for almost four years. The two battles immediately preceding the bomb decision were Iwo Jima and Okinawa; two battles where the Japanese fought to the death and the cost in American casualties was horrific. After those battles it was predicted that the invasion of the Japanese mainland would be even worse (51g. The Decision).
The attack on Pearl Harbor was deviously planned by the Japanese as a diversion to keep the U.S air force out of the war for a few months, so Japan could quickly conquer South East Asia without the worries of America joining the current war. The memorable date of December 7, 1941 had three steps to it, the Japanese planning, the attack, and the later on effects. To begin, the Japanese planning for the bombard of Pearl Harbor was a well thought out proposal that was later on approved. The entire intention of Japan bombing American ground began when the United States and the United Kingdom reacted to the Japanese military actions in China by imposing an embargo on oil and other essential resources for war requirements. The United Sates and the United Kingdom also sent covert military