 The Germans had advanced to the Marne river, but couldn´t achieve a decisive breakthrough.  After the German advance, France ordered a counter offensive.

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 The Germans had advanced to the Marne river, but couldn´t achieve a decisive breakthrough.  After the German advance, France ordered a counter offensive which became the second battle of the Marne  Germany withrew from the Marne towards the North  France called the Allies to the offensive  Americans came to support the French armes  France agreed on a British proposal to srike on the Somme  In the end the German defences were weak, after a continual attaking by the Austrailians, which was called peacefull penetration

 Final period WW1  Does not refer to any specific battle or unified strategy  Allies against German power on the Western front  From 8 th August 1918 to 11 th November 1918

 On 8 th of august 1918 opened with an attack, by Canadian, Australian, British, and French forces.  The attack broke through the German lines  By the end of the day, there was a gap 24 kilometres long in the German line south of the Somme  Total German losses:30.000, total Allied losses:6.500  The German loss was called “ the black day of the German army”  On the following three days the Allies gained 19 more kilometres

 15 th August 1918, Germany demanded the UK to continue the Amiens offensive, even though they ran out of supplies  UK refused and prepared a new offensive at Albert on 21 of August  Germans were pushed back over a 55km front, Albert was captured in August 22  France expanded the battle to the south, which was called the 2 nd battle of Noyon  29 th August town of Noyon was captured  26 th August UK expanded the attack by another 12 km, which was called the 2 nd battle of Arras  Night of 31 st August Australian corps crossed the Somme river breaking the German lines  Australian advances ( ) were described as greatest military war achievement  2 nd of September Germans are forced back the Hindenburg line from where they had started their offensive

 October Germans were forced back through territory gained in 1914  Allies pushed Germans back to the railway lines from Metz to Bruges  As Allies reached the line, Germans were forced to release large amounts of weapons and supplies and hand to the Allies  11 th November 1918 Armistice (military agreement that marked complete defeat for Germany) took place and ended fightings

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