History 2179 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Facilitated Communication, Central Powers, Nivelle Offensive
22 Jan 2018
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After the nivelle offensive: britain"s relationship to france has changed before, france was the dominant partner in the anglo-franco relationship, since france was closer and contributed more men, thus leading to the nivelle offensive. If it was up to britain, they would have never focused on chemin des damn britain had always wanted to ght elsewhere. Haig no longer answered to the french, and british attention shifted north from france to belgium, speci cally, to flanders. & the ypres salient: april, 1917: usa declared war on germany, entering wwi. Therefore, britain was pressed to ght a decisive battle soon could argue that the war was already won prior to american solders arrival, making it seem like the allies didn"t need usa"s participation to win against germany. The decisive battle was decided to be fount near ypres: objectives (still far-reaching and ambitious, but they had clear strategical purposes and were more realistic than those set for.
