Essay On The Battle Of Tannenberg

How significant was the Battle of Stalingrad and the Russian campaign as a ‘turning point’ in leading to the Allied victory in the European War?

It appeared that they now had the power to defeat in a war against major European nations such as Russia and became a new threat. In the meantime, Russia finds itself in a time of reconstruction, trying to avoid any type of anarchy. The changing times for Russia left them vulnerable to invasions.

The First World War was seen as a devastating impact on Tsardom and is seen as the main reason for the fall of Tsar Nicholas II in 1917. “The effect of the war was

By February 1915 the Austria Army had lost 5 million soldiers and consequentially, was no longer involved in the war until the insurgence of the Germans. Russian successes alongside the eastern front and against Austria attributed to the Germans dividing their forces into two active fronts. The Germans were quite successful on the eastern front, despite being outnumbered by 93.5 divisions of Russian armed forces to 78.5 divisions of German armed forces. By May of 1915 Germany liberated the Austrian forces and together they took Poland, Lithuania, Galicia and Latvia, moving increasingly forward (Germany in World War One, Holburn). The western front did not bode as well for the Germans.

The argument that the First World War led to the downfall of the Tsardom in Russia is supported by how unprepared the military were from the outset and throughout the war. Poor conditions and lack of weaponry led to low morale. Production of weapons was seriously flawed as seen in the Russian front at Gorlice, where “many soldiers had no rifles and had to wait for a comrade to be killed before taking his weapon”3. “By the end of December 1914, 6,554,000 men had been mobilized with only 4,652,000 rifles available to them”4. Furthermore the appalling conditions that were reported in the Russian trenches caused outbreaks of diseases such as typhoid and cholera creating tensions amongst Russia's “indestructible army”5. The dreadful conditions caused soldiers to turn against their

The Russian government collapsed in March 1917,and a revolution in November followed by a further military defeat brought the Russians to terms with the Central Powers via the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk which granted the Germans a significant victory After stunning Germans offensive on November 4 1918,the Austro-Hungarian empire

At this time things were not going well for the Allied troops. Italy had suffered a major defeat after the Battle of Caporetto when the Austrians captured 275,000 soldiers. This had forced French and British troops forces to change their troops from the Western front to Italy in order to help them. At the same time the French Army was experiencing mutiny and many feared that she would collapse from within. In Russia there was a revolution as the Bolsheviks came to power ousting and executing the Romanov royal family. The country’s internal struggle pulled them out of the war in 1917. The German submarine attacks on Britain were so powerful that many people predicted Britain’s collapse within months.

     After battling with Britain, Spain, and Germany, Napoleon invaded Russia. The purpose of this invasion was to enforce the Continental System. In 1812, a Russian winter and the Russian strategy of Scorched Earth defeated Napoleon and his army of 500,000 men. This was Napoleon’s worst defeat. It

World War 1 was a total disaster for Russia. Their army was poorly led and poorly equipped, this resulted in humiliating defeats at the hands of Germany. Undersupplied workers and peasants were sent in to battle without boots, coats or weapons. In 1915, Nicholas II took personal command of the army. However the Tsar’s leadership abilities were poor. The Russian army deteriorated, there was huge shortages of ammunition, equipment and medical supplies. The railways grounded to a halt, there was no transportation of food or fuel. Soldiers, workers and peasants began to suffer. These events cost Russia dearly, they lost millions of soldiers, morale was low and the people wanted someone to blame. In the severe winter of 1916-1917, the people had already began to doubt the leadership

In order for the two front war to be a success, maintaining a coalition with Stalin and the Soviets was critical (“D-Day as a Parable”). Another key element that was critical to the opening of the second front was the Barbarossa Campaign. The Barbarossa Campaign was a massive battle between Germany and Russia (“D–Day as a Parable”). Germany wanted to destroy the Soviet Union and permanently eliminate the Communist threat on them while also seizing prime land within Soviet borders for the expansion of German territory ("Invasion of the Soviet Union,”). This major offensive maneuver moved more than a million troops to the Eastern front, leaving fewer numbers of German troops in Western Europe and Germany making a second front in Western Europe more plausible.

The Battle of Belleau Wood is significant in Marine Corps history because it spawned its

The Germans thought they would quickly overtake Stalingrad; however, this was not the case. Russia stood its own against the mega-power, Germany. The battle of Stalingrad was not only a turning point in the war for Russia, but also Germany. Germany lost its first relatively big battle.

The commencement, durational battles, and the ultimate culmination of The Great War later to be called World War 1, entailed of two primary platforms or fronts. One was the established trench warfare as the method of battle had been for years prior that persisted for over two years followed by a war of despairing maneuvers in the end. The instigators or players were the German’s of the Central Powers against the Allied Powers of Great Britain, Russia, France, and in the end the U.S. As we have read, viewed, and studied within the various assignments of this course the evidence of a German planned war in my opinion didn’t exist. The precursors of war of course were carefully identified along the way, such as, agglomerations of prior-combat coalitions, imperialist oppositions, nationalism, and etc.

From the go Russia was mobilized and war ready faster than the Germans and themselves expected, they was only expecting a short war. Russia had no extended war plans of ammo, food, clothing and equipment and extremely bad organisation led to many un-necessary deaths and illnesses. They naively thought that 7 million shells would last the whole war, but in 1916 that was just enough for 10 days. In 1914 only 41 rifles were

The Russo-Finnish War, or Winter War, began on 30 November 1939 when the Soviet Union invaded Finland. The objectives of the Red Army were simply, conquer and subjugate all of Finland and re-establish the borders that existed prior to the First World War. The Soviet Union held the advantage in manpower, equipment, and resources, but the Finnish Army inflicted casualties on the Red Army that far exceeded their own. Not a single Red Army unit reached its initial objectives and Stalin was forced to come to the negotiation table and make a peace that left Finland as a sovereign state. The Finnish military was successful because the Red Army lacked competent leadership, didn’t have the proper equipment to fight in subzero temperatures, and the Finnish Army was able to adapt to a changing environment and use their smaller numbers to their advantage. The gaping holes in Soviet military capabilities helped fuel Hitler’s willingness to initiate Operation Barbarossa. Additionally, by invading Finland the Soviet Union turned a disinterested and essentially neutral into an enemy that had the capabilities to strike into the heart of Russia.