10 best Bloody Battle in World War I and II




World War I will be remembered as one of the bloodiest wars in history. Millions of soldiers died on both sides, and nearly wiped out an entire generation of youth. Here's a list of 10 worst fighting during World War I.

1. Hundred Days Offensive (1. 855. 369 casualties)




With the failure of Spring Offensive, Germany was left in a weak position, after getting the excuse that they could not adequately defend and have spent most, and their best troops trying to break the Allied line.
Allied supreme commander, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, decides to attack, and approved plans for the British commander Sir Douglas Haig to attack Germany in Amiens. Battle of Amiens a success and forced the Germans to leave Amiens. Allies launch other attacks, including the second battle of the Somme, Arras Noyons II and II. The result is a spectacular success, and the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line. Allies then began to attack the defense with a series of attacks aimed at achieving the final breakthrough. Germany finally begged the peace, and an armistice was signed on 11 November 1918.
The attack was successful Allied 100 days, but lost 1. 069. 636 casualties, including 127. 000 American troops. Germany lost 785. 733 victims, but the biggest loss is the collapse of the German Empire and destroy the German peace terms are then forced to accept.


2. Spring Attack / Attack Ludendorff 1918 (1. 539. 715 casualties)




In addition, the arrival of thousands of new troops from the United States that paves the way for the Allied victory certain. German general Erich Ludendorff chosen to plan the attack, which was launched on May 21, 1918.
The plan is a way through the defense Somme British-controlled city, with three other attacks are meant to divert attention from the Allied main attack. Expected attack on the Somme would break the Allied line, the British army will be destroyed and force the Allies to start a truce. Using fast motion "Stormtroopers", Germany initially made significant advances, pushing the Allies back and get most of World War I.
Allies finally stopped the German offensive,. Germany lost more than 680. 000 casualties, most of the stormtrooper unit that led the attack, the Allies lost 850. 000 more troops combined. The attack failed in its aim to break the Allied forces, which have been combined with American forces. During the battle, he said that the Marines fought so hard that the Germans started calling them "Teufel Hunden", which was translated into English reveals one of the more well-known by the nickname Marines; "Devil Dogs"

3. Battle of the Somme (1. 219. 201 casualties)




One of the two abattoirs in major battles of World War I, the Somme was still echoing in the minds of the UK as an example of mass slaughter absurd war. Planned in 1916, the purpose of the battle was a major Anglo-French attempt to break the German lines that can be used with a decisive blow.
On the opening day of the battle, they learned from the failure of the action when England had 60. 000 casualties in a single day, is the biggest loss of troops in history has ever experienced British troops. Attacks continue along the Somme until 13 November, 1916 when the attack finally subsided.
The battle, though ultimately there is no doubt as a breakthrough, it is strategically important for the allies, because it forced the Germans to retreat 40 miles and then set the region to the Allied victory at the end of 1918. Allies paid dearly the victory, the Allies lost a total of 623. 906 casualties, including 100 tanks and 782 aircraft. Germany lost almost 600. 000 people.

4. Battle of Verdun (976. 000 casualties)

 



When the battle of the Somme was planned, Germany launched a massive offensive against the French fortress near the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse.
Nearly 40 million artillery shells were exchanged during the battles, the scars of war marked the area with craters, some of which are still visible to this day, and popularize French battle cry "They shall not pass". Verdun the French and German-owned British sedaangkan Somme, a symbol of the horrors of war in general, and the futility of the First World War in general.
France lost 542. 000 casualties, while the Germans lost 435. 000.

5. Battle of Passchendaele / Third Battle of Ypres (848. 614 casualties)




The purpose of the battle was to break through the villages of Passchendaele in West Flanders, Belgium. In a series of operations "bite and hold" ranks against the Germans, the Allies tried to use tactics against Germany through a bloody war of attrition, culminating when the Canadians took control of Passchendaele on November 6, 1917, ending the battle.
Mud is a sight that is often encountered in a battle, tanks were destroyed and even people - people drowned. Allies lost a total of 448. 614 people and the German 400. 000. person

6. War of Serbia (+ 633 total casualties. 500)





Nearly every school child knows that World War I began when Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princep. They also know that shortly thereafter, Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia, Russia has declared war on Austria-Hungary, and later Germany declared war on Russia, and then so on and so forth.
Campaign Serbia by Austria started with the shooting of Belgrade on July 29, 1914, followed by a military invasion of Serbia on August 12.
Although outnumbered, Serbia managed to blunt the invasion of Austria for most of 1914 and into 1915, when Germany and Bulgaria joined Austria in a bid to conquer Serbia and launching new attacks, culminating in the Battle of Kosovo in November and December 1915, in which soldiers Serbia was eventually destroyed and Serbia suffered mass destruction.

The campaign was extremely bloody for both sides, with Austria, Germany and Bulgaria lost 313. 500 victims combined, and Serbia lost more than 320. 000 soldiers.

7. First Battle Marnes (483. 000 casualties)




In early September 1914, the German army pushed through the crush Belgium and France, threatening Paris. British and French troops took casualties trying to stop the Germans, and it seems that Paris would fall to the Germans.
Desperate to stop the German, British and French troops from the consolidation Marnes river, outside Paris.
Allies finally able to stop and pushed Germany to France in the counterattack against the Germans by six French field armies and one British army, which led to casualties on the Germans and forced them to abandon plans Schliffen and backward, in the case known as the "Miracle on Marnes ".

Although the Allies Won, 263 casualties of the Allied forces. 000 inhabitants, and the German 220. 000.

8. Battle of Gallipoli (473. 000 casualties)





In 1915, the war in the West had been stalled. Both sides have built up a large network of trenches and lost many soldiers in futile attacks against fortified enemy positions.
Sir Winston Churchill, the first Chief of the Navy, decided to attack on the Dardanelles in modern day Turkey to threaten the Ottoman capital of Constantinople. The allies hope the front two will help break the deadlock on the Western Front, and bring relief to the beleaguered Russians by opening a sea route to supply aid. At the end of pertemouran allies eventually losing 220. 000 people and 253. 000, and the Ottoman Empire gained a stunning victory.

9. Battle of Arras (278. 000 casualties)





In 1917, the Western Front was in a stalemate for two years. Many bloody battles, including a slaughterhouse in Verdun and the Somme, has resulted in millions of casualties on both sides, and Europe has been tired of the war.
As a result, a plan was formed to attack the German trenches in the city of Arras, which, combined with a French attack to the south, is expected to break the deadlock on the Western Front and the Allied triumph.
Battle of Arras began on 9 April 1917, and the initial effort led to the arrest of the strategically important Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Forces and huge profits by British troops in the middle. When the battle was closed May 16, 1917, England lost 158. 000 soldiers in the attack, and Germany 120. 000 deaths.

10. Battle of Tannenberg (182. 000 casualties)





After the failed invasion of Russia in East Prussia, Russia managed to inflict defeat of Germany in Gumbinnen and make it back to the West. Germany quickly moved and consolidated into the 8th German Army to halt the Russian advance.
Germany managed to inflict a major defeat at Tannenberg Russia, considered by some to be the most crushing defeat in the war. Russia had 170. 000 victims and Germany 12. 000, highlights the stupidity of the Russian commanders and the ineffectiveness of the Russian army.

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