Western Civilization II / Unit 14 WC2 1313 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Verdun and the Somme, 1916
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The idea
At Verdun from February nineteen sixteen Germany attacked to bleed France; the anchor counts five hundred forty thousand French and four hundred thirty thousand German casualties. On the Somme from the first of July Britain lost tens of thousands the first day, four hundred twenty thousand by November.
In practice
"The war had won", the anchor says.
Where people slip
Figures are the anchor's; Lumen 2 agrees.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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