Reasons For Allied Victory In Ww1 Flashcards
Reasons
German home front moral British success American entry Tanks Failure of Ludendorff offensive German soildures moral
Deaths due to blockade
770,000
Effects of blockade
One third of pigs slaughtered Turnip winter 1918 1 million person strike Ersatz foods Nitrates and fuel
Reasons for British success
German over extension leading to mobile warfare
All arms battle
Amiens
Amiens figures
450 tanks rawlinson All arms battle Raf phosgene bombs 27,000 casualties Described as the "black day of the German army
Effect of Amiens
Fall back to the Hindenberg line
Reasons for American entry
Lusitania and Zimmerman
Collapse of Russia
Blockade, only had 4 weeks of wheat left
Troop figures
By the end of the war 1.8 million members of the IS expeditionary force
Arriving at 10,000 per day 300,000 per nonetheless
American resources
Limitless population of 90 million
Our produces Germany 11,200 planes vs 2000 planes
Tank stats
Anglo American mark 4
British had 5,000 tanks
6 for every 500 men
French had 3,800 enclosing Renault models which were fast
Very good with machine gun placements, mark 4 carries 8 men had 2 machine guns and 6 inch shells
Battle of Cambrai
Nov 1917
Opened 40 mile gam for 10 days which British exploited, forcing the Germans to the Hindenberg line
Failure of Ludendorff offensive
Cost 1 million men
Gamines 40 miles but couldn’t split the French and British due to focus joint command
Discipline issues
Raising allied wine stores
Why were the Germans vulnerable
Long supply lines, salient a
German moral
Raided allied wine cellars
1 million casualties
Two mutators at Kiel
