HIS325 Lecture 6 Dicussion

By rhiwilson

  • Poland divided into a series of partitions

  • Finland belonged to the Russian Empire

  • Finland declared independence during the Russian Revolution

  • Hitler's Wehrmacht Invades Czechoslovakia

  • Hitler believes he has the best chance at defeating the allies

  • Soviet Union and Nazi Germany begin negotiations for a pact of neutrality

  • Hitler-Stalin Pact signed

  • Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations

  • A German ship, the Graf Spee, consistently attacked British shipping.

  • Hitler began planning an invasion of Norway.

  • Poland falls to German forces

  • Hitler envisions Operation Fall of Gelb taking place.

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    Sitzkrieg

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    The Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union

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    France lost 90,000 soldiers in the War of 1939-1940

  • Hitler used a manufactured incident to start the war.

  • Hitler freed to enact his battle strategy and war begins

  • Britain and France enter the war.

  • Soviets entered fighting

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    Luftwaffe and artillery rip through Warsaw.

  • The encircled Polish forces destroyed

  • All Polish resistance ended.

  • Soviet forces able to crack Finnish defenses.

  • Altmark, a German tanker, is captured off the coast of Norway.

  • Germany invades Scandanavia

  • Hitler had to deal with Britain and France

  • Two Lftwaffe crash in Belgium and the plans for the Fall Gelb are compromised.

  • Copenhagen fell to German forces

  • Germany forces stormed across the North Sea to invade Norway.

  • Hitler set the date for D-Day, which was an assault on the Belgian fortress of Eben Emael

  • Winston Churchill named Prime Minister.

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    German Panzer nudge forward along the Ardennes

  • France sent into a panic due to the German forces crossing the Meuse and the increased Luftwaffe attacks.

  • Germans streamed forward against demoralized French forces.

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    Hitler issue orders to halt the Panzer so that the infantry and supplies can catch up.

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    337,000 allied soldiers escaped as both naval and civilian soldiers shuttled soldiers across the English channel

  • Italy declared war on France

  • France surrendered

  • Franz Halder envisions the attack

  • Franz Halder envisions Operation Fall of Gleb taking place.

  • Heinz Guderian wrote a book titled Achtung Panzer on tank warfare