University:
University of Cambridge
Course:
0470 IGCSE | History
Academic year:

2023
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28

Pages:

1
Author:

JackA1

IGCSE History: World War I – Sir Douglas Haig Sir Douglas Haig: Alternatively called the Somme Butcher. Strategies: ● Believed in the policy of attrition. ● Tactics were clumsy, costly in resources. ● Believed that defense could not bring victory. ● Haig’s method was the best possible considering that he did not have hindsight or anything else to rely on. ● His tactics prepared the route to Allied victory. Haig’s methods at the Somme achieved: ● Saving the fortified town of Verdun. ● Taking the pressure off the overstretched French army at Passchendaele. ● Killing some of Germany’s best troops. ● His tactics prepared the route to Allied victory.