https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3 Made with serendipity en-us 2018-02-12 20:00:26 UTC 2026-01-09 09:17:31 UTC hello@padlet.com aschrantz1 https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230805690 Significance: 
The Battle of Jutland was a naval battle fought by the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, against the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet under Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer during the First World War]]> 2018-02-12 20:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230805690 aschrantz1 https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230805769 Significance: Wilson tried to declare peace in 1918, meant to create compromise and negotiations between countries. ]]> 2018-02-12 20:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230805769 aschrantz1 https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230805856 Significance: The Battle of the Somme, fought in northern France, was one of the bloodiest of World War One. For five months, the British and French armies fought the Germans in a brutal battle of attrition on a 15-mile front. The aims of the battle were to relieve the French Army fighting at Verdun and to weaken the German Army.

It became a sort of symbol of the horrors of war...

]]> 2018-02-12 20:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230805856 aschrantz1 https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230806250 Significance: as the last major German offensive on the Western Front during the First World War. The attack failed when an Allied counterattack by French and American forces, including several hundred tanks, overwhelmed the Germans on their right flank, inflicting severe casualties. The German defeat marked the start of the relentless Allied advance which culminated in the Armistice with Germany about 100 days later.]]> 2018-02-12 20:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230806250 aschrantz1 https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230806344 Significance: The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest single battle of World War One. The casualties from Verdun and the impact the battle had on the French Army was a primary reason for the British starting the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 in an effort to take German pressure off of the French at Verdun. The Battle of Verdun started on February 21st 1916 and ended on December 16th in 1916. It was to make General Philippe Pétain a hero in France. The attack on Verdun (the Germans code-named it ‘Judgment’) came about because of a plan by the German Chief of General Staff, von Falkenhayn. He wanted to “bleed France white” by launching a massive German attack on a narrow stretch of land that had historic sentiment for the French – Verdun. The area around Verdun contained twenty major forts and forty smaller ones that had historically protected the eastern border of France and had been modernised in the early years of the Twentieth Century]]> 2018-02-12 20:02:54 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230806344 aschrantz1 https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230806634 Significance: Germany Announces Unrestricted Submarine Warfare. ... Several U.S. ships traveling to Britain were damaged or sunk by German mines, and in February 1915 Germany announced unrestricted submarine warfare in the waters around Britain.]]> 2018-02-12 20:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230806634 aschrantz1 https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230806763 Significance:The Zimmermann Note, or telegram, was sent by German Foreign Minister ArthurZimmermann in 1917. He had sent it to his ambassador in Mexico and the goal was to get Mexico to become an ally of Germany. ... It said that Germany would, after it won the war, give the Southwestern US back to Mexico.]]> 2018-02-12 20:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230806763 aschrantz1 https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230806914 Significance:The Battle of Saint-Mihiel was a major World War Ibattle fought from 12–15 September 1918, involving the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) and 110,000 French troops under the command of General John J. Pershing of the United States against German positions.]]> 2018-02-12 20:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aschrantz1/lfdp8vpk6ag3/wish/230806914