Quiz on Friday, starts on slide 62 and Bruns wants to finish his powerpoint.
German Invasion of Denmark and Norway-April,1940
-Had to go over water
-the first negative thing to happen to german
-German wasn't able to get control of the North Sea from GB,
-Many of the german battleships were sunk by the British.
Invasion of France 1940
-the idea was to take over France in a month
Maginot Line
-line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defense
-France constructed this along its borders with Germany and Italy after what happened to them in WW1
-built from 1930-1940
-borders weren't very important with airplanes...could just fly over them.
-Ultimately failed because planes could get over the border but then when it got to Belgium
-Germany invades Belgium
Miracle of Dunkirk
-hitler's first mistake
-thousands of british and other soldiers leave Dunkirk and go to Britain
-hitler ordered his troops not to invade til the panzers got there.
-Saved hundreds of thousands of troops and POW's
Vichy Government
-gov. in southern france that hitler allowed to remain in control.
-they were hitler's lap dogs...did what ever hitler told them to do
-led by Marshal Henri Petain
Free French Underground
-a lot of french people fled from france to GB
-Led by Charles de Gaulle
-Were are french allies
-goal was to free france
Europe prior to the Battle of Britain-July,1940
-Britain was the only ally country not to be taken over
-hitler had respect for britain...he believed them to be part of the aryan race
-the Germans bombed britain day and night
Nazi Goals
-1.)Destroy the Royal Air Force(before invasion was possible-hopefully by 9-15)
-2.)attack and destroy the British Navy
-3.)Attack British troops
-4.)After gaining air superiority the invasion of GB would be begin if GB had not already surrendered
**Germany never succeeded in achieving #1
**German bombers did so poorly against the RAF that they started bombing at night only-randomly attacking cities
** GB was aided heavily be the radar and Ultra-code name for the intercepting and deciphering enemy codes
-bombing at night...you couldn't see your targets so it became terror bombing...because bombs were dropped randomly.
Luftwaffe
-name of german airforce
-messerschmitt Bf 109
Herman Goering
Bases for Destroyers-September 1940
-Great Britain gave us 99 year leases on the following bases:
-Antigua-Naval Air Station, Sea Plane Base
-British Guiana-Naval Air Station
-US gave GB destroyers for some bases
1940 Election
-FDR vs. Wendell Willke
-FDR thought why would you want change in middle of war
-republicans were making a come back
FDR signs the Lend-Lease Act
-we would lend or lease supplies to people in war that were allies
-Started showing we were choosing sides
-idea was that the other countries would give the stuff back after war
-we helped war big time with this
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