Nick's Blog Notice

Hi everyone
It's the Moderator- Nick.
While I am working on this blog project, I am also working on my US History project on the Civil War battles alone the Mississippi River.
These two projects are all about battles and I am going to present my project after Spring break is over.
So I talk to my teacher today to discuss about my project, and I find out that I can do something about this blog project, too.
I realize one thing that I didn't do well on the presentation last week.
I had been researching about the information about the battle of Bulge so I know more about this topic then my classmates.
But when I am presenting, I didn't explain more about the background information.
That is why I think that other people didn't my presentation.
So I am going to explain more background information about the Korean War when I present next time. :)

Nick's Blog Notice

Ok Ok~
I realize that on my presentation yesterday, most people have no idea what I am talking about.
I think that one of the reasons is because I am talking too fast.
Also, I didn't explain simple enough for the listener.
And the picture that I post are not clear.
So I am going to try to fix the style of my presentation and hopefully you guys will enjoy more on my presentation next week
:)

Map of North and South Korea- Before the War

North and South Korea Maps- Now Days

New Topic

After a long meeting with the Nick Supreme Court, I finally decide what my next topic will be. It is going to be about the Korean War !!!
Although I already have some understanding about the Korean War, I still want to find out some details about the war.
So hopefully I can find more information about the Korean War and the most important things is the readers enjoy reading my blog.
:)

Map of Belgium

Map of Germany, Holland and Belgium

Nick's Blog Notice

Ok Ok
After looking other people's blog, I realize that I am putting too much information into one blog post.
I am going to change my blog post style.
So hopefully it will help you guys to see my blog easier! :)
And also more pictures, too!

Map of the Battle of Bulge - Details

The Battle of Bulge

The four troops that are sent out to the western frontline got different missions.

The commander in Chief of this Battle is Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, who is the commander in Chief of the western sector for Nazi Germany during World War Two.

1.    The German 6^th Panzer Army led by General Sepp Dietrich is in charge to capture the city of Antwerp. Antwerp is a city in northern Belgium, it is important because it is near both Holland and Belgium’s capital cities.

2.    The German 15^th Army’s mission is to protect the German 6^th Panzer Army from the Allies attack from the north.

3.    The German 5^th Panzer Army led by General Hasso von Manteuffel is in charge of capture the city of Brussels, the capital of Belgium.

4.    The German 7^th Army’s mission is to protect the German 5^th Panzer Regiment not to get attack by the Allies army that is coming from the south.

The Nazi Germany knows that to let this plan to work they need 4 key elements

1.     The attack need to be unexpected by the Allies

2.     The weather needs to be bad for airplanes to fly- after USA join the Allies; the Allies had the control of the sky in Western Europe.

3.     The attacks need to be fast, before the Allies reinforcements arrives

4.     Need to get oil from the Allies, Nazi Germany troops are lack of oil after the Allies air force destroy most of the cities that Nazi Germany storage their oil.

Nazi Germany had a successful attack at the first two days of the battle. The weather is bad for airplanes to fly and the Allies are not prepared to fight. However, on the third day of the battle, the Nazi Germany slows down their attack because they are running out of oil. Because the Nazi Germany starts a huge attack plan, they need a lot of oil to support their army. But Germany is lacking of oil. Also, the battle is at the Allies front line, most of the Allies oil storage factories are away from the front line, which makes the Nazi difficult to attack and get oil from Allies.

On December 22 1944, 10 days after the battle start, the weather started to get clear. The Allies air forces can finally join the battle and help the Allies to have a counter attack to the Nazi Germany. Now any moving in the daytime is dangerous for Nazi Germany armies because the Allies air force can easily find and attack them.

December 24 1944, the Nazi Germany starts to attack again. But because they are out of fuel and resources, so they retreat back to Siegfried-Line, a defend line that is in between France and Germany.

On January 1 1945, because the Nazi Germany wants to keep their advantages in this battle, they sent out their last air forces to bomb the Allies armies in Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg and Northern France. Most of the Nazi air forces are destroy in this day and this makes the Nazi lost their ability to start any air attacks again during World War Two.

Although the Nazi Germany had stop most of their attack in the western sector, they still hold some important positions at the front line. The Allies decide to push the Nazi back to Germany and hoping to end this battle in January 1945, so they start a counter attack from the north (English army led by General Bernard Montgomery) and south (American army led by General George Smith Patton Jr.) to push Nazi back. Most of the Nazi troops retreat backs to Germany at January 7 1945. And the battle ends. 

The beginning of the Battle of Bulge

The leader of the Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler knows that he is losing the war. His troops in the Western Europe have been retreating since D-day. However, he still believes that he can turn the tides and make the Allies to give up fighting, ignoring the Soviet Union and make a peace agreement with Germany. If Hitler’s plan works, then he can focus on the eastern sector to fight against the Soviet Union. And hopefully win the war. So he and his generals make a plan secretly and without using the telegraph so the Allies don’t know what the plan is. On 12 December 1944, the Nazi Germany had sent out 4 troops attacking Allies from western Germany in 4 different directions. And the Allies were shock because they didn’t know that the Nazi is going to have a huge attack to the western frontline. At the first two days of the battle, Nazi Germany had control the battlefield and the Allies are retreating from the frontline.

Before the Nazi Germany start attacking, they had made a plan called “Operation Greif”. This plan is to form a group of Nazi Germany soldiers that can speak good English, let them wear the American soldiers clothes and go into American camps. Their mission is to slow down the Allies army by destroying the telephone wire, changing the signpost and spread wrong information. Their plan had work out until the Allies find out the Nazi soldiers in their camps. The Allies find out these Nazi soldiers by asking them some questions that only American soldiers know. For example, who is Mickey Mouse’s girlfriend or where is the capital of Illinois...etc.

        

Battle of Bulge - Introduction

The topic that I will be focusing on for these two weeks is the Battle of Bulge (Ardennes Offensive). The knowledge that I want learn about is what did the Nazi Germany did to try to make the war good for them again. During World War Two, before 12 December 1944, Nazi Germany is getting attack by the Allies (USA, UK, France and other Allies countries) from the western sector and Soviet Union from the eastern sector of Germany. At this point, the Nazi Germany had almost no chance to attack the Allies because the attacks from the Allies and the Soviet Union are so strong that makes the Nazi Germany need to focus on defense more then offense. However, Nazi Germany is planning to have a counter attack to the Allies in the West. And the place that they choose to attack is at Wallonia, Belgium, the Allies front line.

        

Battle of Bulge - Map