Powerpoint in class.
norway was more difficult because water was around it. Hitlers navy hit hard by brit navy at battle of norway. Hated france. National line Basic def was a concreat fortification with machine guns in france. line was based on defence tactics. Didnt work. Built just before the war. Lots of defence tactitcts in war but offence wins wars. Line would consist of underground trenches and machine gun post. Ultimatly was a wast because invaded by air. Duncurc mirical was when hitler told to wait for the infantry and this was enough time to evacuate thousands and millions of men. Saved the allies. The belief that the germans were unbeatable caused many to surrender. Hitler was pleased to walk through paris because of the things that they made them do. Hitler tryed to undo everything that had happened in ww1. Hitler allows the vichy to lead in southern france. Vichy was alies with hitler. france is not proud of this. Free french underground charles degaul was head of french underground. goal to free france from german control. Hitler trys to comprimise with great brit. Battle of great brit was bombing campain. Nazi goals First is to take out aircraft. Second was to destroy the navy. third was to eliminate ground forces. Hitler was hoping great brit would surender because of bombing. Royal airforce was supior. shot down so many bombers germany had to change the way they bombed. US is nutral no trade. We have sided with britan and france. radar helped sirens would go off and people would go to basements. Kids were sent to the countrysides. ultra was itercepting of german codes. opperation sealion never happend was to invade britian never got air control. we gave old destroyers to great brit and we got a 90 year lease on naval bases. US started to take a stand in this war. FDR wins by blowout. US sends len lease act was we would lend money to countrys at war. After war they would give us it back. Not toward germany tho only our allies.
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