The 1918 Spring Offensive also known as the Ludendorff Offensive, was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during World War I, it all began on March 21st,1918, which marked the deepest advances by anyone since 1914. This war was Germany's attempted to end WW1. There were four separate German attacks, there code names were Michael, Georgette, Gneisenau and Blucher-Yorck. Of those four battles, Michael was the main attack. during this battle, 418,374 British men were lost, and 433,000 French were lost.Operation Michael: it was launched at 4:40 am. in the first 5 hours, Germans had fired one million artillery shells at the British. A German breakthrough was accomplished just to the north of the boundary between the French and British armies.Ludendorff, also known as the German commander, realized that the arrival of thousands of American soldiers in the coming months could make the German war effort impossible to maintain. Germany was already really struggling to feed all of its people and had already suffered really high casualty rates. To win the war, Ludendorff realized that a large and decisive assault had to be made before the Americans arrived in larger numbers and before Germany ran out of their supplies or even their own men.Ludendorff ‘s plan was to push the British back against the channel coast forcing them to retreat from France as well as to form a gap between the French and British armies, then his troops could move forward. In order to achieve this though, he planned to use smoke and poisonous gases against the other armies.Since March 21, Germany had suffered close to a million irreplaceable casualties and the Americans were now arriving in France at the rate of 300,000 a month. For the Allies, it was the arithmetic of victory.
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