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On 21 March 1918, the Germans launched a large offensive against the British Fifth Army and the right wing of the British Third Army. The artillery bombardment began at 4.40am on March 21. The bombardment [hit] targets over an area of 150 square miles [390 km 2], the biggest barrage of the entire war. Over 1,100,000 shells were fired in five ...
Operation Michael (German: Unternehmen Michael) was a major German military offensive during World War I that began the German spring offensive on 21 March 1918. It was launched from the Hindenburg Line, in the vicinity of Saint-Quentin, France.
(Map #4) General Foch's handwritten map of the Western Front on March 26, 1918. In the early morning hours of March 21, 1918, German artillery rained down on the Western Front. The spearhead of a massive German assault of nearly 200 divisions then hit and broke the Allied line right at its weakest point. [1]
By the middle of March, the Gotha squadron was once again ready to attack England but had to support the German spring offensive which started on 21 March, being used to bomb Calais, Dunkirk, Boulogne and troop concentrations and railways. [119] On 9 May, Rfa 501 suffered a calamity when four aircraft attempted to bomb Dover.
The attacks took place at night, and Parisians took sanctuary in the Métro stations. During a new attack on the night of March 11–12, a panic took place in the crowded Bolivar Métro station that caused the deaths of seventy civilians. On March 21, 1918, the Germans launched a major new offensive, hoping to end the war before the bulk of ...
The bombing was possibly aimed at the Aerodynamics Research Institute on the same road. Furthermore, Maschmühlenweg was hit and two houses on the Arndtstraße were also destroyed. [13] [14] The third air raid of 1945 happened on March 21, 1945. At 03:30, several high-explosive bombs fell on Göttingen, detonating with a timed delay.
The Central Powers and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ending Operation Faustschlag and Russia's involvement in World War I. [24]Hipólito Yrigoyen retained his seat as President of Argentina after his party, the Radical Civic Union, won majority of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies during the legislative election in Argentina (where voter turnout was 54 percent).
The Revolution of 1918/19 is one of the most important events in the modern history of Germany, yet it is poorly embedded in the historical memory of Germans. [137] The failure of the Weimar Republic that the revolution brought into being and the Nazi era that followed it obstructed the view of the events for a long time.