German Spring Offensive

Examples of German Spring Offensive in the following topics:

• The Bolsheviks

  • At first, the Bolsheviks refused the German terms, but when German troops began marching across the Ukraine unopposed, the new government acceded to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on March 3, 1918.
  • Despite this enormous apparent German success, the manpower required for German occupation of former Russian territory may have contributed to the failure of the German Spring Offensive in the Western Front and secured relatively little food or other materiel.
  • The Allies became concerned at the collapse of the Eastern front and their Russian ally, and there was also the question of the large amounts of supplies and equipment in Russian ports, which the Allies feared might be commandeered by the Germans or the Bolsheviks.

• The European Theater

  • However, neither French nor British troops gave any significant assistance to the Poles during the invasion, and the German–French border, excepting the Saar Offensive, remained mostly calm.
  • The British rejected several covert German attempts to negotiate a peace.
  • By early February 1943, the German Army had taken tremendous losses.
  • Both the Germans and the Soviets spent the spring and early summer of 1943 preparing for large offensives in central Russia.
  • German forces surrendered in Italy on April 29.

• The Collapse of Nazi Germany

  • The failed Ardennes Offensive (December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945) was the last major German campaign of the war.
  • The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European theater.
  • Following the Vistula–Oder Offensive of January–February 1945, the Red Army had temporarily halted on a line 60 km (37 mi) east of Berlin.
  • The German defenses were mainly led by Helmuth Weidling.
  • German special forces then rescued Mussolini, who then soon established a new client state in German occupied Italy named the Italian Social Republic, causing an Italian civil war.

• The Western Front

  • In August 1916, new German leaders along the Western Front recognized that the battles of Verdun and the Somme had depleted the offensive capabilities of the German Army.
  • Dubbed the Nivelle Offensive, the attacked proceeded poorly and 100,000 French troops fell within a week.
  • This would be the last German offensive of the war.
  • With its economy and society under great strain, Germany finally broke under the Allied series of attacks known as The Hundred Days Offensive beginning in August 1918.
  • Two United States soldiers run past the remains of two German soldiers toward a bunker.

• America's Early Role

  • During the United States campaigns in World War I, the AEF fought in France alongside French and British allied forces against Imperial German forces in the last year of the war.
  • The AEF helped the French Army on the Western Front during the Aisne Offensive (at Château-Thierry and Belleau Wood) in June 1918.
  • They fought its major actions in the Saint-Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives in late 1918.
  • Additionally, they seized German ships, and borrowed Allied ships to transport American soldiers from New York, New Jersey, and Newport News, Virginia.

• The Anti-German Crusade

  • Anti-German hysteria in the U.S. during World War I led to restrictions on speaking German and internment.
  • During World War I, many German-Americans were broadly accused of being sympathetic to the German Empire without regard to their individual loyalties.
  • Anti-German fervor during World War I resulted in the renaming of food that was of German origin simply sounded German.
  • In the spring of 1917, nine detainees escaped, prompting U.S.
  • Illustrate how anti-German fervor played out in the forced registration, internment, and oppression of German-Americans.

• Simple harmonic oscillation

  • Figure 1.2 shows a mass suspended from a spring.
  • On the left, the mass and spring are in equilibrium.
  • Hz is Short for Hertz, after the German physicist Heinrich Hertz.
  • First compute the spring constant of the spring using the data above.
  • What you will find is that the spring constant is within a factor of 2 or 3 the same as the spring we used in class!

• Gradual Withdrawal

  • Vietnamization received another severe test in the spring of 1972 when the North Vietnamese launched a massive conventional offensive across the Demilitarized Zone.
  • Beginning on March 30,the Easter Offensive (known as the Nguyễn Huệ Offensive to the North Vietnamese) quickly overran the three northernmost provinces of South Vietnam.

• 1968: The Year of Upheaval

  • In January, the Tet Offensive undermined the American public's confidence in the Vietnam War.
  • In the spring, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F.
  • The Tet Offensive was a military campaign launched by the People's Army of Vietnam on January 30, 1968.
  • Outline the events of 1968 including the Tet Offensive and assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy

• Crisis in Berlin

  • The Berlin Crisis, which concerned the occupational status of the German capital city, Berlin, resulted in the erection of the Berlin Wall.
  • Accordingly, Berlin became the main route by which East Germans left for the West.
  • The 3.5 million East Germans that had left by 1961 totaled approximately 20% of the entire East German population.
  • During the spring and early summer, the East German regime procured and stockpiled building materials for the erection of the Berlin Wall.
  • Although this extensive activity was widely known, few outside the small circle of Soviet and East German planners believed that East Germany would be sealed off.