WW II
-Schlieffen's Plan involved using 90% of Germany's armed forces to attack France.-Fearing the French forts on the border with Germany, Schlieffen suggested a scythee-like attack through Holand, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The rest of the German Army woudl be sent to defensive positions in the east to stop the expected Russian advance.-On 2nd August 1914, the Schlieffen Plan was put into operation.-August 4th 1914, Britain entered the war. The Schlieffen Plan had nto taken that into consideration.-British resistance at Mons and the slow retreat after the battle agve the French more time to prepare for the Germans attack.-Kluck, the German commander in France, saw that he could not keep to the Schlieffen Plan because of the resistance from the British.-Kluck changed the plan of attack; instead of going around Paris the Germans turned south. This left the Channel ports along the coast free from attack--and enabled British reinforcements to get to France.
By February 1917 they had sunk 266 ships, and another 338 in March, and an even more 430 shpis by April. ember 1914 trenches ran from Switzerland to the Channel coast. -Germany created a Navy as a challenge to Britain. The French won victories in the center. -In 1915-16, the GErmans drove the Russians back, leaving Russia with 2 million deathes as they retreated. This crumbled many trenches and created huge pits of death in the mud. -Defending the trenches was an easy task. Both the French and Germans losses were equally heavy. 124 of them were Americans, which demanded that the all-out campaign be stopped. British failure made Bulgaria enter the war on Germany's side in October 1915. Men spent countless hours in muddy rat-infested pits surrounded by dead bodies. -In August, at Amiens the British defeated Germans--in what Ludendorff called the blackest day in the history of the German army. on 11 November 1918 the Great War came to and end. However the bombings acted as a warning for the opposition, giving them time to set up and prepare for the troops advancing from the trenches.
Common topics in this essay:
Switzerland Channel,
British Somme,
Schlieffen Plan,
Lusitania British,
Battle Coronel,
Verdun French,
Battle Tannenberg,
Paris Germans,
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