World War 1-Allied Victory Denis Mootz

Turning Points
Impacts of the entry of the USA?
Industrial potential
- e.g. July 1917 launched 95 new ships
Financial resources
Manpower
- Us reserves in contrast to German’s army reserves
- Allowed for R&R of allied troops
German response?
- Ran out of manpower
- More a butcher than Haig

Impacts of the Russian withdrawal?

German victory... Brest-Litovsk

-two edge sword= hampering ability to focus force on
German ‘empire’
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War on ‘two fronts’?
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Ludendorff’s Spring Offensive?(Kaiserschlacht= Emperor’s battle)

21 st march... ‘ micheal , towards Arras/Cambrai/St Quentin
-63 G divisons attacked 26 b divisons on 60km front
-5days recaptured the old Somme battlefield and threatened Amiens*
- 4-5 Apirl .. halted near Villers- Bretonneux by Britsh and aust troops
9th Apirl... ‘Georgeette’...
27th may ‘Blucher’
9th june ‘Gneisenau’
15th july “Reims-Marneschutz’

Allied response?
‘Backs to the wall’
Battle of Hamel 4th July 1918
- Integrated attack= tanks (mechanically problems), infantry & cavalry
Tanks allowed for trench reinforcing = enabled reduction of causalities when
 Air power=Planes= revolutionary in supplying advancing troop, dropping
bombs, food ammunition.
Creeping barrage slow moving attack
= all came together
- Learning curve or they all got it right at one time debatable between Historians
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2 Battle of the Marne 13 July 1918
8th August

Reasons for Allied Victory?

Events leading to the Armistice, 1918?
29th March 1918..... Allies appointed Ferdinand Foch as Allied Co-ordinator.
8th August... Germans defeat at Amiens
21st break at
Central powers
-15th September...austria sought peace
-27 September g ready to negotiate
-28th September Kaiser advised to seek peace
-29th September Bulgaria surrended
-1st October
-4th October
-5th October
-7th October
-16 october
-21october
-23october
-23 October
-23 October
-26 October
-28th October
-29th October
-31st
-4th nov
-7th nov
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-11 November
Reasons for the allied victory and German collapse?
Coalition Victory
- Combination of allies& all means of war i.e. navy, fiancé & man power
Aerial supremacy

Maritime supremacy
- Blockade by British = 60% + 70060 G. people in the blockade= no children under
the age of 6
- G brake b ego
Tactical

Improve of combustion engine

Development of tank

Curry

Mantash