No Blog assignment for this week
Continuing on with bruns's presentation
Notes:
- British Pime Minister Neville Chamberlain started taking Nazi Germany and Hitler much more seriously after this
- Winston Churchill had warned about this happening
- Great Britian and France started mobilizing for war
- Russia gave raw materials to Germany in exchange for money and weapons
- Both agreed to stay neutral if the other entered the war
- secretly agreed to invade and split poland. Germany would get the western half and USSR got the eastern half
- Russia would get Finland, Estonia and Latvia and Germany would get Lithuania
How did the world react?
- shocked
- poland was in a very tough spot
- Hitler thought it would force Great Britian and France to back out of their promise to help Poland if attacked
Blitzkrieg-Lightning War
1. Airforce attacks enemy front-line and rear posistions, main roads, airfields and communication centers. At the same time, infantry attacks on the entire frontline and engages enemy
2. Tank units breakthrough main lines of defense and advance deeper into enemy territory. While following, mechanized units pusue and engage defenders preventing them from establishing defensive positions. Infantry continues to engage enemy for the sae reason
3. infantry attacks enemy flanks in order to link up with other groups to complete the attack and eventually encircle the emeny and capture strategic postition
4. Mechanized groups go deeper into the enemy territory out flanking the enemy positions and preventing withdrawing troops and defenders from establishing effective defensive positions
5. Main force links up with other units encircling and cutting off the enemy
6. goal was to achieve victory as quickly as possible
Main Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan
Other Powers: Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Romania, Thailand, Hungary
Maginot Line
- Was a line of concrete fortification, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defenses
- France constructed this along its borders with Germany and Italy after what happened to them in WWI
Free French Underground
- led by charles de Gaulle
- goal was to free french from german control
Nazi Goals
1. Destroy the Royal Air Force
2. Attack and destroy the British navy
3. Attack British Troops
4. After gaining air superiority, the invasion of Great Britian would begin if G.B. 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
**Great Britian was aided heavily by the radar and Ultra
Ultra was one of the biggest reasons why we won the war. It was like a german code to know when the germans are coming.
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