The Spring Offensive or the Lunderdorff offensive was when the Germans had several attacks along the western front. It happened on March 21 to July 18 of 1918. Everyone that was mostly involved was the Germans and British. Germans were realizing that if they wanted to win they would have to hurry up and beat the allies. Although the Germans did have more people US was about to send in a lot of more soilders. Also the US had a large supply of materials needed for war. The four major attacks were Michael, Georgette, Gneisenau, and Blücher-Yorck(these were all code names). But the one that was most important was Michael. Its job was to break through the allied lines, beat the British forces, and after that beat the British army, because they had control over the Somme river. Which would be a major fail because Germans couldn't get fresh new soilders, and supplies that were needed was't getting there as quickly as they needed it to be. It wasn't only that the soilders couldn't carry guns, ammuniton, and food. So this caused a lot of them to "quit." When april came around Germany had slowy started getting more and more land. But in August the the Allied's fought back and used techniques they hadn't yet used and different ways of fighting. And they eventually beat them and took back all of what the Germans took from them in battle. Some of the stratiges that Germany used was the Michael operation explained above. The Georgette and operation Mars was to battle more north in Belgium and France and take over the ports. And the Allies stradgey was to have 3 lines of defensive which was the outpost zone that was only snipers, patrols, and machine guns. The second was the battle zone where all the batteling took place. Third was everyone else that was not in the first or second line and there job was to make sure germans wouldnt get into there territory and take over anything they had. If the Germans had any chance of winning they said they would have to have at least 200,000 men per month to make up for all the losses that they had, and that was way to many men so it started going down hill for the Germans. The results of the war was that Germany had lost because of a multiple reasons.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Offensive
This is where the battle took place on the western front.
This is Erich Ludendorff he is the leader of the German army.
Villages that were destroyed during the Spring Offensive.
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