Dunkirk Significance

     The battle of the bulge was Hitler's last chance to win the war or at least make the allies go for a treaty. He did this because his forces were being pushed back into Germany and soon they would run out of supplies and other resources for war. Hitler thought of this bold plan when he recalled how a German hero Frederick the great was facing defeat, Frederick went on a offensive attack at his foe who had superior numbers but the bold moved worked and Hitler thought he could do the same thing.

On the German side, Hitler was running out of options. Russia has destroyed twenty-five German divisions, the worst defeat ever inflicted on them. On the western front, the Allies had captured Rome and were attacking 155 miles north. The D-Day invaders had destroyed another two German armies while they pushed through France. He was being surrounded on all sides and needed to make a drastic move. He reasoned that since Allies had come so far so fast, they would have to halt eventually to allow their supplies to catch up with them. During

Britain and France desperately awaited the moment when the US would fully join in the fighting in Europe during World War II, and D-Day brought that full fledged involvement. If not for the efforts of the United States of America, its cooperation and planning with its allies, the invasion would not have been successful. It was successful, however, due to previous planning, the level of supplies and men from the US combined with the European allies, as well as the divided German forces. D-Day was the beginning of liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control. Hitler had known that in order for the Allies to be successful, there would have to be an invasion of mainland Europe - which his forces controlled most of - and that it would come from northwestern Europe, with Great Britain being the jumping off point. But if he was expecting the attack, why was he not better prepared? The planning that had gone into the invasion at the beaches of Normandy on the coast of France had been thorough and extensive, with a large part of that planning being the intentional disinformation about the location of the invasion, thus fooling the Nazi leader. These factors explain why Operation Overlord was successful, and thus became the turning point in the world war.

On December 16, 1944, Adolf Hitler ordered a massive attack on the Allied forces. This attack, known as the Battle of the Bulge, was a last dich effort to split up the Allied forces in their drive towards Germany. The attack failed and effectively led to the eventual downfall of Nazi Germany. With few supplies and resources, German forces were heavily outmatched. On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in wake of Germany’s inevitable defeat. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered (National Geographic staff,

Arguably the most infamous battle during World War II, the Battle of the Bulge took place in the heavily wooded area of the Ardennes Forest region. The overall goal of this massive German counteroffensive was to break through the Western Front which consisted of both US and British forces. The primary objective behind Hitler’s plan was too simply take back the initiative the Germans lost on beach of Normandy France. A few months prior to the Battle of the Bulge, Hitler had barely survived an assassination attempt. On 20 July 1944, one of Hitler’s most trusted officers placed a bomb in a brief case and which he left underneath the table during a meeting (Gavin, J. (2003). The bomb unfortunately did not kill Hitler but it did represent the fact that, within Hitler’s inner circle, there were disenfranchised high ranking German officers who wanted Hitler dead. 45 days before the Battle of the Bulge, Hitler was almost assassinated by one of his most trusted German Officers, an event which Allied Forces remained unaware of for a long time.

Dunkirk is a sea port located in The North-East regions of France. Having WW2 commenced, Germany has successfully invaded such countries as Poland, Denmark, and Norway with Britain sending their forces to help Norway yet, the German forces and navy became very advanced in all aspects of the war that it seemed no country would be able to even see a sight of victory against a strong and well prepared German Side which had their ‘Blitzkrieg (Lightening War)’ tactic which saw them defeat the big countries of Europe. Soon enough the Nazis invaded Belgium and Holland also and had another victorious spell with Belgium in surrender and Holland in no state to even stand a chance of winning. On the 10th May 1940, France too

The real miracle at Dunkirk and the other Channel ports in May 1940 was that Hitler halted his Panzer divisions against the advice of almost all his generals, and allowed nearly 600,000 British and French troops to escape to England. Had he not done so, the military disaster that the British Expeditionary Force experienced in France would have been total, and none of its troops would have been able to fight on another day. Even so, they lost most of their planes, tanks, artillery and heavy equipment, while the loss of aircraft by the RAF imperiled it ability to defend the country against the Luftwaffe. Although Winston Churchill and his Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper tried to put the best face on the evacuation possible, especially by emphasizing the role the small boats had played in the rescue effort, they were under no illusions about the magnitude of the disaster. Hitler gave various explanations for why he refused to continue ground operations against Dunkirk none of them particularly convincing and it has puzzled historians for seventy years since. Most of the top German commanders were literally "speechless" when they heard the order to halt and leave Dunkirk to the Luftwaffe, although Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt was concerned about possible British and French counterattacks on the exposed northern flank of the German army. Britain's counterattack at Arras had "also come as a severe shock" to the Germans and De Gaulle would later make similar attacks

At first, the British command opposed evacuation, and French forces wanted to stick it out as well. However, with the BEF and its allies forced back onto the French port of Dunkirk, Churchill soon became convinced evacuation was the only option.

Once the Japanese decided to attack Pearl Harbor; the United States had no choice but to go to war. Some causes and consequences of the World War II were; Hitler reassembled the German military, and turned his focus on other countries. Hitler demanded and forces Austria to become a part of his empire. In 1939, Hitler had signed a non-aggression pact along with the Soviet Union. On September 1, 1939 Hitler invaded Poland; then a few days later; France and Britain proclaim war on Germany this is how World War II had begin. A few days after WWII begins as France and Britain declare war on Germany. The Soviet Union and Hitler started jointly conquering countries in Europe. However, Hitler planned to attack Britain, and later did just that. The primary Allied powers of World War II consist of Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and China. The Allied powers had all settled that Germany

Dunkirk or Dunkirque, is in France. Infamously known for Dunkirk evacuation, this small town went from a peaceful settlement into a brave town of soldiers. In 1940, from May 26 to June 4, Allie soldiers were exposed to what could have been one of the worse massacres in history. In a span of ten days, sailors, fishermen, or anybody with a boat, saved 350,000 British, French, and Belgium soldiers from Dunkirk. The evacuation was very successful. For every eight men on the Dunkirk port, seven of them were rescued. The unfortunate ones became prisoners of war to Germany.

Firstly, Dunkirk omits several fundamental figures who were involved in the Dunkirk Evacuation and solely includes composite characters that are based on historical figures. While Vice-admiral Bertram Ramsay ran Operation Dynamo in a room deep within the Dover cliffs, Kenneth Branagh’s Vice-admiral Bolton oversees the role of pier master, organizing soldiers onto the ships. Bolton’s role of pier master more closely resembles Canadian James Campbell Clouston, who was completely omitted from the film. Clouston was tasked with ushering troops along a port on the beach in Dunkirk to a fleet of ships awaiting their arrival in the English Channel. Before Clouston was appointed to the mission, allied soldiers were being evacuated from Dunkirk at

The article discussed the German surprise but, somewhat expectation that the Americans, British,and Canadians were to land in Normandy and left Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in charge of analyzing the beaches, setting up land mines, poisoning the nearby water supply and fields so the opposing soldiers would not stand a chance to survive. Rommel then decided that no matter what he does the Americans, British,and Canadians could not really be stopped unless the German troops were to be at that very spot and even if that time came he would not be allowed to move his troops without the permission of Hitler. Additionally, out of the 46 infantry divisions in France seven of them were untrained soldiers that mainly consisted of really young and old men however, the other troops were filled with well trained man that were many that vere veterans from the Eastern Front. Furthermore, commander Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt division had roughly 850,000 men which 60,000 of them were Russian prisoners that volunteered to be in the war instead of jail. On the other hand, Hitler actually suspected and waited from the

Rearmament was a popular move in Germany. It boosted Nazi support. Hitler also knew that Britain had some sympathy for Germany on this issue, as Britain believed that the limits put on Germany’s armed forces by the Treaty of Versailles were too strict. It was clear that the permitted forces were not enough to defend Germany from attack. Also, Britain thought that Germany would be a good buffer against Communism.

After the victory on the invasion of Poland in 1939, Hitler wanted to continue his victory by invading France but, with the bad weather his plan was postponed. Until when on January 1940, a German plane crashed on Belgium which has a copy of Hitler’s attack orders which forced him to rethink his plan.