Exam 2 Battle Analysis Flashcards
1
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Beersheba-Gaza British strategy
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- Allenby replaces Murray
- Reorganization of forces (3 core - assesses > if you want me to succeed, here is what I need - men)
- Planning for Beersheba (30-mile line)
- drops misinformation
- Beersheba Attack 2 weeks earlier than Turks expected
- Turks think they’ll be at Gaza
- Light Horse Brigade - are able to capture and control wells - outflanked and took Gaza in 4 days
2
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Beersheba-Gaza British strategy cont.
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- take city of Jaffa first (16 nov)
- liberate Jerusalem (9 Dec)
- Turks want high ground and defend their line
- Megiddo > antichrist battle
- final battles: Amman, Damascus, Aleppo
- 350 miles in 6 weeks, 30,000 camels
- Ottoman surrender 30 october 1918
3
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Verdun Strategies
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- Joffre (Fr) - allies want German troops to spread out
- 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
4
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What Verdun meant to the French
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- Stopped Atilla the Hun (attack on French pride)
2. Birthplace of Modern France
5
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Verdun: the Battle, Part 1: German Offensive
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- 21 Feb
2. Flamethowers, grenades, stormtroopers - specially trained and can cut through barbed wire
6
Q
French Response to Verdun
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- Henri Petain
- road of sacrifice
- Dead man’s Hill
- Robert Nivelle- has strategy of creeping barrage
7
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Verdun: the Battle, Part 2: French Offensive
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- Hiddenburg replacs Falkenhayn
- Creeping Barrage
- Trench of the Bayonetts
8
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Results of Verdun
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- 15 Dec 1916
- French: 377,000
- German: 337,000
Landscape devastated
9
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Operation Michael
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- Ludendorff/Hindenburg moved 1/2 million troops from east to west - used stormtroopers to target weakness in british line
- actual attack: 21,000 POWs -havoc/chaos
- Gen. Gough 5th Army >retreat over somme battlefield
- bombardment of paris - 1 mil shells in 5 hrs
- Krupp-cannons fire from 120 km - 3.5 minutes to land
- catch Brits by suprise, brits retreat over somme
- largest breakthrough in 3+ years in 2 days
- Mar 24 becomes national holiday