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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