Reasons why Germany lost the First World War.

Jutland
1. Date:31st May 1916
2. Location: North Sea, near Denmark
3. German Navy vs. British Navy.
4. Germany sent out their ships to look for Admiral Beatty's ships. They reached a fighting distance of around 8 miles. Britain start to lose, and so they drive back to where the main British battleships are. They lead them to a T. The T was were the British were angled side ways and the Germans were vertical. The British had an advantage as they had most of their guns on the side whereas the Germans were facing forward and so had limited guns to shoot with.
5. The British Navy won and took control of the area in which they battled in.
Atrittion
1. Britain
  1. Killed=908,000 Wounded=2,000,000 Total Casualties=3,100,000
2. Germany
  1. Killed=1,700,000 Wounded=4,200,000 Total Casualties=7,100,000
3. All Countries
  1. Killed=8,500,000 Wounded=21,000,000 Total Casualties=37,000,000
Battlefield Outcomes in late 1918.
1. Operation Michael
  1. German plan to separate British and French troops
  2. Failed attempt
2. Battle of Amiens
  1. Germany vs. Allies
  2. Allies launch offensive operations against Germany on the western Front.
  3. German Forces Surrended
3. End of War
  1. Armistice was signed at 6am and came to force 5 hours later.
  2. 11/11/1918 armistice was signed.
  3. Armistice is a form of truce between the allies and the entente.
Schlieffen Plan
1. The Schlieffen Plan was the German army's attempt to invade Belgium and get through to Paris.
2. Assumptions made by the Germans.
  1. The Russian Mobilisation would be slow and they though it would take around 6 weeks.
  2. The Belgians would cooperate with them and let them walk through.
  3. Great Britain would not intervene.
3. Reality of the Schleiffen Plan
  1. The Belgians didn't cooperate but fought against them and later the prevented the Germans from taking over the French Chanel Ports by flooding most of their land.
  2. Britain did intervene and the declared war on Germany. the 250,000 British men were well equipped and well trained. They were ready for action within less than one week. They helped the Belgians at Mons, so moved on to help the French on the River Marne and prevented the Germans from reaching Paris.
  3. The Russian mobilised their troops faster than expected. They took 10 days to be ready to invade Germany, which is aot faster than the Germans anticipated. The Germans then had to switch troops away from the Western Front to hold up the Russian invasion.
BEF intervention- 1914
1. Stands for British Expeditionary Force
2. The BEF were a group of men sent from the government to France and Ireland when there was a cause for concern about the possibility of a German invasion in both countries.
US entry
1. Entered on the 6th April 1917
2. More than 2 million men from the US went to France to help the allies win the war.
3. Some American men wanted to stay neutral and not get involved in the war but they did, and fought along side the GB and France.
German allies.
1. Germany was part of the Triple Alliance.
2. Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy were members of the Triple Alliance.
3. Italy were not strong allies as they got involved when they wanted to and pulled back when victory seemed unlikely. They were not a reliable ally in the war.
4. Germany had the biggest involvement in the war from the countries in the Triple Alliance.
Failure of Operation Michael.
1. Germany decided to attack on the Western Front, and tried to split the French and British troops.
2. Short Term Results.
  1. Germany had broken through the troops and had advanced towards Amiens around 40 miles. Victory seemed likely based on the advancement and the splitting of the British and French troops.
3. Long Term Results.
  1. The Germans had lost a lot of men and their casualties had reached around 1 million.
  2. GB had driven the Germans back a little more with help from the French troops.
  3. On the 8th August, there was the Black Day of Germany army. they continually retreated.
  4. November 1918, Revolution in German as the Kaiser was removed.
Failure at Verdun
1. Battle on the Western Front between the French and the German.
2. 21st February-18th February 1916
3. France had recaptured the lad the Germans had taken, and pushed them back as well.
4. French casualties were 377,000 and the German casualties were 337,000.
Blockade
1. Blockade is sealing of a place or part of something in order to prevent goods or people from passing through.
2. The German Navy had lost the North Sea to the English Navy. The British took control of the sea and decided what could pass through and what couldn't. they tried to eliminate the supplies to Germany.
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare.
1. The Germans needed to get their supplies to survive, but they couldn't do it by boats as the British would stop them and defeat them like Jutland.
2. They decided to use submarines to try and transport goods to their country in order to get supplies.
3. This was one of the reasons the US joined the war.

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