HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Billy Bishop, Georges Clemenceau, Zimmermann Telegram
Document Summary
Battle of the somme was a shock for both sides. German thought british were less a threat than french on land. The germans launched a campaign of unrestricted warfare, strangling sea-born links of britain to the rest of the world. Lay siege on the country and kill their war effort. The fallout of countries affected by the unrestricted warfare, the german efforts had to guess how many ships they needed to sink to get the intended target of starving britain. Both their amount of ships to be sunk and the need of u-boats was miscalculated. They didn"t take into account that britain would react. The british used counter measures, convoys, explosives to destroy u-boats, and they broke the intelligence system and misguided the revealed u- boats. The british beat and overcame the deadly u-boat. What helped the british was american involvement, another huge miscalculation.
