What was the significance of the second battle of the Marne

The Second Battle of the Marne was the last offensive of the German army in the Western Front during WWI. It lasted from July 15 to August 6, 1918. The goal of the German commanders was to push enemy forces south from Flanders to create conditions for launching a major attack in the region. In the beginning, the German units made some progress, but they were stopped later by the Allies. In the battle, the Germans had 139,000 men killed and wounded, and some 30,000 men were captured. The Allied casualties were 123,717 killed and wounded (12,000 Americans).

During

the

First

World

War,

Germany

remained

significantly

hostile

to

the

Western

Front.

The

assault

bombed

when

an

Allied

counterattack,

sustained

by

a

couple

of

hundred

tanks,

overpowered

the

Germans

on

their

right

flank,

incurring

extreme

setbacks.

The

German

annihilation

denoted

the

beginning

of

the

steady

development

of

the

Allies

which

ended

with

Germany

in

the

Armistice

about

100

days

after

the