Armada Failure Analysis

Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat was a speech given by Winston Churchill. This was his speech promising the British of his nonstop work to get the victory against Germany. He proposed a new government to Parliament respectfully in a speech. He helped give the military confidence so, they could go into war with their head head high. In the end, the British won the war.

At the conclusion of Operation Dragoon, the Allies sustained around 17,000 killed and wounded. But inflicting heavy damage on German forces, 7,00 killed, 10,000 wounded and 130,000 captured (thoughtco.com/worldwarii/operationdragoon). Operation Dragoon was the 36th Engineers final amphibious assault of World War II. They would continue to support the Allied units through three more

Woodrow Wilson’s speech, “War Message” was important because diplomatic relations with Germany were severed and war was about to break out. A resolution for war was passed by congress. Woodrow Wilson’s speech had a huge impact on congress’ decision. Could you imagine having to make the decision of whether your country will enter into war or not? On February 1, Woodrow Wilson released the extraordinary announcement of the Imperial German Government.

Hitler had used propaganda and other tactics to make the German people eager for war. He used the treaty of Versailles as an example for the German people as their anger on the loss of World War one and their treatment under the treaty of Versailles to make them want to take revenge. Moreover, after a winter of waiting, Hitler resumed back to attack on April 9, 1940, nevertheless, as The Blitzkrieg tactic had succeeded on Poland, Hitler attacked Denmark and Norway and occupied them. One month later, Germany launched attacked on Netherlands, Belgium, and France. The main assault was through the Luxembourg and the Ardennes Forest.

The Largest Airborne Operation Operation Market Garden, was the largest airborne operation to date. This operation consisted of thousands of paratroopers from the United States Armed Forces as well as the British Armed Forces. An operation this large scale needed an abundant amount of coordination in order to be successful. Paratroopers on the ground were required to be able to operate by themselves with little to no support. The goal was to overwhelm the enemy and end the war early.

This led to the deaths of Allied troops and provided little aid to the war effort. The counter argument would be that the events of the operation caused its failure. “Defeat at Arnhem was in part due to the fact that Allied paratroopers were told to expect light resistance from no more than 2,000 recruits just learning the rudiments of soldiering,”- Source D. this quote provides evidence that those planning the operation were not using the intelligence that was received by the Allies about the German armor near Arnhem. The ignoring of the intelligence gathered by the Dutch underground and the arial reconnaissance done by the RAF proved to have a major impact on the battle at Arnhem as the Airborne troops were not equipped and did not have the supplies to deal with the German tanks that were stationed

Monte Cassino has been referred to as “the bitterest and the bloodiest of the Western Allies’ struggles […] of the Second World War” by Matthew Parker. Four battles and a total of 75,000 casualties were necessary to break the German line of defence. From the 17th January to the 18th March 1944 the two sides fought fiercely over a twenty-mile front. Why did it take the Allies so long to pierce through German defence? The first factor to consider is planning and preparation for the campaign.

In 1951 a seven mile stretch of hills running north and south, the cries of men dying could be heard along with the retort of artillery and machine gun fire throughout the valley. This location of such destruction was Heartbreak Ridge, located just north of the 38th parallel the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division along with its NATO allies were making a push to take the ridge and hills to prevent the North Koreans and their Chinese allies from invading South Korea again. The month long campaign to take Heartbreak Ridge would push the U.S. and her allies to the breaking point but their sheer determination and fortitude would see them through to the end and to victory. In 1951 the Korean War has turned into a stalemate along the 38th parallel where

Leading Causes of World War I World War I was one of the bloodiest wars that this world has ever seen. An estimated eight and a half million people were killed (Adelblue “An End to the Great War”). World War I began in 1914 and lasted for four long years. Almost all of Europe was involved, and several alliances were formed, the Triple Alliance, being Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. While France, Russia, and Britain became early on allies.

Vonnegut classifies the German soldiers that Billy encounters by dividing them into smaller parts. He illustrates their lack of preparedness for war by describing their clothes as “taken from real soldiers,” which implies that they are not real soldiers (52). Instead, they are simply “farmers from just across the German border,” who are in their early teens, or old men (52). It is likely that they were drafted into service, possibly even involuntarily. Furthermore, they are “toothless as carp,” which emphasizes that they are in no state for war (52).