WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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because their supply lines had become overextended
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to wait for the Russian army to arrive
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due to fierce German resistance
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at the announcement that President FDR had died
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1945, the Elbe was the site of the monumental link-up between the Western Allies and the Red Army. Near the end of the war, American forces were ordered to halt at the Elbe, allowing the Soviet Union to attack and seize Berlin, and the Elbe became part of the border between East Germany and West Germany.
Detailed explanation-2: -Throughout the spring of 1945, American forces continued to push the German Army eastward. It was only a matter of time before they made contact with the Russian army. The first meeting, documented in morning report entries, took place on the banks of the Elbe River near the town of Strehla on April 25, 1945 (see map).
Detailed explanation-3: -Eisenhower gave us three reasons for standing on the Elbe: His armies were already well beyond the line of the western occupation zones that had been agreed to with the Soviets. Why take casualties for land that would have to be handed over?
Detailed explanation-4: -After a successful German advance in summer 1942, the battle for the city of Stalingrad in late 1942 proved a turning point. Soviet forces halted the German advance at Stalingrad on the Volga River and in the Caucasus.