HIST 387 Lecture : 387 - Week 9 – Lecture 1 - Crises of 1917 .docx
Document Summary
Hindenburg made chief of the general staff and ludendorff was made qm general. Spring offensive 1918 actually a strategic effort to divide and throwback the french and the. = that l wrote this after the war sounds a little bit manipulated! In 1917 ludendorff had himself driven through the battlefields of the somme = was appalled and wanted to waste no more. The germans were not malicious in utilising this effort but viewed this as military necessity though. While the british were trying to break the german front, the french were attempting to do the same. Robert george nivelle (?) had succeeded foch as commander of the french armed forces: he did not last very long, 16th april attacked across the aisne against wooded heights of chemin des dames. French didn"t achieve a breakthrough either = painful advance of a few miles which was called off after.
