Exam 2 Battle Analysis Flashcards

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Beersheba-Gaza British strategy

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  1. Allenby replaces Murray
  2. Reorganization of forces (3 core - assesses > if you want me to succeed, here is what I need - men)
  3. Planning for Beersheba (30-mile line)
  4. drops misinformation
  5. Beersheba Attack 2 weeks earlier than Turks expected
  6. Turks think they’ll be at Gaza
  7. Light Horse Brigade - are able to capture and control wells - outflanked and took Gaza in 4 days
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Beersheba-Gaza British strategy cont.

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  1. take city of Jaffa first (16 nov)
  2. liberate Jerusalem (9 Dec)
  3. Turks want high ground and defend their line
  4. Megiddo > antichrist battle
  5. final battles: Amman, Damascus, Aleppo
  6. 350 miles in 6 weeks, 30,000 camels
  7. Ottoman surrender 30 october 1918
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Verdun Strategies

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  1. Joffre (Fr) - allies want German troops to spread out
  2. Falkenhayn (G) says they sould hold in the west and push towards east > flipped from initial plan
    - attemts to launch offensive against French to bleed them dry and push Russia east
    - thinks France will rush men into small corridor and will lead to French deaths
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What Verdun meant to the French

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  1. Stopped Atilla the Hun (attack on French pride)

2. Birthplace of Modern France

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Verdun: the Battle, Part 1: German Offensive

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  1. 21 Feb

2. Flamethowers, grenades, stormtroopers - specially trained and can cut through barbed wire

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French Response to Verdun

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  1. Henri Petain
  2. road of sacrifice
  3. Dead man’s Hill
  4. Robert Nivelle- has strategy of creeping barrage
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Verdun: the Battle, Part 2: French Offensive

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  1. Hiddenburg replacs Falkenhayn
  2. Creeping Barrage
  3. Trench of the Bayonetts
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Results of Verdun

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  1. 15 Dec 1916
  2. French: 377,000
  3. German: 337,000
    Landscape devastated
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Operation Michael

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  1. Ludendorff/Hindenburg moved 1/2 million troops from east to west - used stormtroopers to target weakness in british line
  2. actual attack: 21,000 POWs -havoc/chaos
  3. Gen. Gough 5th Army >retreat over somme battlefield
  4. bombardment of paris - 1 mil shells in 5 hrs
  5. Krupp-cannons fire from 120 km - 3.5 minutes to land
  6. catch Brits by suprise, brits retreat over somme
  7. largest breakthrough in 3+ years in 2 days
  8. Mar 24 becomes national holiday
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