Ally Carter

What is one topic that most history classes discuss? Most history classes discuss World War I. World War I started July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918. This war was between the Allies and the Central Powers. The Allies had a mix of France, Great Britain, Italy, Russia, and later the United States. The Central Power had a team of Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey. In this war, there was a general named John Joseph Pershing known as “Black Jack”. He was a part of historical…

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings(Operation Neptune, commonly known as D-Day). A 1,200-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving more than 5,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on 6 June, and more than two million Allied troops were in…

D-Day or the Normandy Invasion, was the Allied effort to break the Western Front and launch a full invasion of Germany. It was code named Operation Overlord, and consisted on the storming of five beaches in Normandy France, by joint British Canadian, and American forces. The five beaches were code named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword and were to be attacked by The United States, The United States, Britain, Canada, and Britain respectively (3). However, it was no simple task as the beaches…

saved, but much equipment was lost. And not everyone was even rescued, about 40,000 were left to die, be captured, or otherwise escape. The fact that the evacuation even happened had to do greatly with luck since Hitler had halted his attack on the Allies on May 24th, for reasons unknown. If he hadn’t of done this, the outcome of Operation Dynamo could, and probably would, have been vastly different and unfortunate for the soldiers. So, while the evacuation of Dunkirk brought about many…

The United States joined World War One on April 6, 1917, three years after WW1 originally began. Before that day, America would try to stay out of the war. President Woodrow Wilson tried to keep the United States neutral, but Germany continuously violated their conditions/neutral status. Based on the facts, The United States did have good enough reasons to join the war with the allied powers, against the central powers. Unrestricted submarine warfare was one of the most important reasons on why…

the front lines supplied and supported. During the first three days, the U.S. Army and Navy moved 66,285 personnel, 17,766 deadweight tons of cargo, and 7,396 vehicles over Sicily's southern shores. By the end of the first day, the Seventh Army had established a beachhead two to four miles deep and fifty miles wide. In the process, it had captured over 4,000 prisoners at the cost of 58 killed, 199 wounded, and 700 missing. But the situation was still perilous. Axis counterattacks had created…

This caused Western Europe to take action. In early 1938, Britain, France and Poland began calling on military units to fortify their borders. Explicitly, Britain and Poland signed a Mutual Assistance Treaty that would require both nations to react to a German attack on either country. This treaty is symbolic of Europe’s reaction to Hitler’s aggression because it still showed a policy of appeasement. Neither Britain nor Poland would attack German forces unless they directly invaded. Just six…

On May 4th, 1940 after the defeat of Britain in Dunkirk,Winston Churchill spoke to the House of Commons about the potential retaliation against Germany. Winston Churchill was appointed Prime Minister of Britain about a month before the Dunkirk incident, due to his extensive experience and talent with war. Winston knew that an epoch of war was in due time, especially after Nazi Germany declared war on Britain and France. In his speech, he uses candor to explain how horrifying the defeat at…

Account for the Luftwaffe’s failure to win the Battle of Britain. In 1941, Britain stood on the precipice of German invasion, the only thing in their way, the Royal Air Force, “hopelessly outnumbered, horribly outgunned, [they] battled desperately and somehow, despite the odds, emerged victorious.” With all the odds stacked in their favour, buoyed from their recent success in France, the German Luftwaffe still failed to win the battle in the skies over Britain. This essay will provide a…

few days later on October 13, 1914 the French and English armies entered the Ypres area, taking up defensive positions to limit the advance of the German army. Beginning in January 1915 there was a stalemate between the Allied and German armies. The Allies held their…