27. Battle of the Bulge—a 1944-1945 battle in which Allied forces turned back the last major German offensive of World War…
The turning point in the war in Europe came when the Allies began launching offensives against the Germans beginning after the battle of: Stalingrad.…
AP European History Ch 28 World War II 1. What were Hitler's plans for Germany and then for Europe? How successful was he in implementing those plans? Pages: 902-910…
As the European War progressed, early German advances and gains were decreasing by the mid-years of the war as it became evident the tide was turning against the Axis powers and in favour of the Allies. Operation Barbarossa and the entire Russian campaign can be seen as one significant turning point that helped to change the course of the war and yet it can be argued that this was not the sole and most major turning point. The Battle of Britain in the air war and the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa have also been labeled as turning points in the war due to their significance and the contribution they have equally played, along with Operation Barbarossa, in assisting the eventual Allied victory.…
Their centralized command system caused a very slow response time during the invasion of Normandy which enabled Allied forces to move ahead despite their own issues. This central control continued to hurt Germany because Hitler would not commit further reserve forces to the battle until it was too late. Germany’s large issue of distrust inside of the political system caused the high command to believe their own intelligence services and therefore did not heed their warning that Normandy would not be a diversion but in fact the main assault. Allied forces proved resilient and innovative as they continued to overcome the metaphorical obstacles that stood in their way.…
On 16 December 1944, Adolf Hitler launched a massive attack in the Ardennes Forest, southern Belgium. His primary goal was to recapture the Harbor of Antwerp to deny the Allies use of the port facilities. He believed that marking a repeat of what the Germans had done three times previously–in September 1870, August 1914, and May 1940, would secure another win. This attack lasted approximately one month and few weeks ending 25 January 1945. The Battle of the Bulge was Hitler’s last attempt to win the war.…
If we were told to give an explanation of why the allies won, you would have a book the size of Richard Overy's 330 page book titled, "Why the Allies Won." Overy work is masterful and convincing. As a historian he challenges the generally accepted stock answers to the question,…
Evan Yau HIS 293 During World War II, the German army seemed unstoppable at the start of the war. They were able to take Poland in just 35 days and invade France with their tactics like blitzkrieg (lightning war). With them having an amazing victory in France over the Allies, causing them to surrender in six weeks, it seemed like there wasn’t much the Allies could do to stop Hitler’s army. However, once Hitler turned his army towards the USSR, we saw that they were able to slow down and eventually defeat. Now it leads to the question of what factors led the Germans to be so unstoppable against the Allies in the east and what factors hindered them in the west.…
Hitler’s army was not an efficient one. Though the Blitkrieg was astoundingly successful in Poland, The Low Countries, and France their true faults become apparent in the rocky terrain of the Balkans and the muddy swamps on the Eastern Front. The strategy of Blitzkrieg…
The Germans were losing territory quickly and the US forces were already prepared to enter Germany from the West and meet the Soviet troops moving in from the East. In Germany's last attempt to stay in the war and split the Allies apart, Hitler commands more than a quarter-million troops to operate a blitzkrieg from Ardennes to Antwerp. This was known as the Battle of the Bulge. The Germans at first were able to push back the allied forces but the bad weather and the limited amount of fuel left for military offensives weakened them, and resulted in an Allied victory (United States History). This ultimately lead up to Germany's surrendered to the United States and the suicide of, Fascist leader, Adolf Hitler.…
We all know the Nazis were defeated in WW2, but do you know the battle that led to the Allies finally defeating them? According to Michael Peck, an award-winning author with an MA in political science, The Battle of Moscow stopped Hitler's army. One of the main reasons this battle is a big deal is the soviet union crippled Germany’s army and made it possible to defeat them, but this was not surprising considering the fact that the Soviet Union had 20 million soldiers and Germany only had 13 million and they weren’t all at that battle. Hitler’s original plan was to capture Moscow in the hopes that with the heart of the soviet union gone the rest of the nation would fall apart and would be Germanys for the taking. So they used Blitzkrieg and blasted through multiple Soviet armies.…
World War II started because of the Germans, Italy, and Japan wanting to expand their borders across the world. The European powers that did not agree with the vision of the Axis powers formed what we know today as the Allies. The Allies and Axis had many long battles. Ultimately leading up to the start of World War II was full of long lasting battles. Lots of those battles ended in a stale mate. The Allies were able to gain back most of the land that the Axis had claimed. Hitler, the Kaiser of Germany, proposed a plan to his generals. Most of the generals thought Hitler was out of his mind with this counter attack but Hitler had a goal “A unification of the individual German states and tribes or even the construction of a German Empire in the sense of a unified state.” Hitler’s goal was to bring Germany back to a world power. Bringing Germany back to power it once had would mean the control of Europe. After many long battle the Allies had the Germans backed up to a breaking point. The Germans then devised a plan for a counter attack. This counter attack would be known as the Ardennes where the Panzer armies were used to strike the Allied forces and halt their advances. The Ardennes, a forest between Belgium and Germany,…
The U.S. was then able to put more effort and troops into Japan to fight. Once Normandy was taken back, one month later on August 26, 1944 Paris was liberated after 4 years of being occupied by Axis forces. With the fighting on the western front and the allies gaining ground on the enemy, Russia was attacking on the eastern front closing in on Hitler. On December 16, Germany launched its last offensive on the western front, The Battle of the Bulge. This offensive consisted of Hitler ordering 250,000 troops across Luxemburg to push back the allied troops. The enemy pushed 50 miles into the allied lines creating a “Bulge” in defenses. The battle ends on January 16 with an allied victory and a German retreat as they lose supplies and got overcome by the allies…
Hitler and his army pounded Europe with their army, air, and naval forces during World War II with no signs of letting up. Germany appeared as though they had really pressed the offensive by attacking with numbers, numerous times with no apparent end in sight. After being subjected to the German military and it's tactics so many times, one would think that the Allies would have a pretty clear view of what Germany had and what to expect. But Germany continued to keep the opposition guessing on what they would do next. It was like a magician show. Germany had its blitzkrieg in one hand, while the other hand held the torturing of Jews, experiments on them, and looting of their gold and property at the same time.…
T F 6 The day Allied troops crossed the Rhine river and entered Germany is commonly…