Why Is Blitzkrieg Important

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World War I was said to be the war to end all wars, it wasn’t. The horrific atrocities of the First World War resulted in the loss of more than nine million soldiers, with an additional 21 million injured, and also caused a horrifying 10 million civilian casualties (History.com, WWI History). During the Paris peace conference at the end of World War I, leaders attempted to build a post-war world that would be without conflict. This would not come to pass; however, a German tactic, later known as Blitzkrieg, was adopted and used during the Second World War in an attempt to avoid a repeated long war of attrition. Although the term blitzkrieg was never used in German military manuals or writings (History.com, Blitzkrieg) it was an effective doctrine used by the Germans in the early phases of World War II. Seeking to avoid a long war, the German strategy was to defeat its adversaries with quick, blitzing techniques. The blitzkrieg relied on a concentration of offensive weapons along a narrow front that would quickly drive a wedge into the enemy defenses, surround them, and cause disorganization (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum). This allowed the German troops to surround the enemy while at the same time the German air forces denied enemy resupply routes. Thi s…show more content…
Hiltler was dominating all of Europe, he attacked Britain in 1940 and in June of 1941 German troops invaded the Soviet Union. At first the Germans were experiencing some success; however, they declared war on the United States in December of 1941 and the U.S., Great Britain, and the Soviet Union proved too much to handle and ultimately defeated the Germans after a drawn out conflict, which was exactly the opposite of what the Germans desired to accomplish with the blitzkrieg
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