The Invasion of Poland
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The Invasion of Poland
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Soviet Invasion of Finland
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The ‘Winter’ War, Finland
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The ‘Winter War’, Finland
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Invasion of Scandinavia, 1940
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The Maginot Line
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Underground plan of Maginot Line
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Invasion of Low Countries, France
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The Bombing of Rotterdam, 1940
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The encirclement at Dunkirk
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Encirclement at Dunkirk
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Troops awaiting evacuation, Dunkirk
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Evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940
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The Defeat of France, May – June 1940
• French inferior air force, lack tank mobility (all panzers have radio communication) despite build-up since 1936.
• Yet German strength overstated – surprised by own success• French general Maurice Gamelin ignores Belgian and Swiss warnings of
attack between Meuse and Moselle.• French DO fight (85,000 killed in 6 weeks; 1.5 million captured) Prime
Minister Paul Reynaud resigns on June 18• Field Marshal Philippe Pétain signs armistice 4 days later• Gen. De Gaulle flees to London; organises Free French• New government established in Vichy ‘free zone’ in south• Northern France under direct Nazi occupation• About 600,000 French will die in WWII, (about half WWI losses)• A third of Luftwaffe’s planes destroyed or damaged in campaign
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Hitler in Paris
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The Battle of Britain, 8 – 11/1940
• Royal Air Force has 2500 pilots and 2,000 planes– 1900 Brits, 1100 Commonwealth pilots, 7 US– 220 Poles and Czechs; 40 Belgians and Free French– 1000 casualties (550-600 dead)
• Germany has 2500 planes but suffer greater losses• More critically, British able to outproduce them• Radar gives warnings of coming German attacks• Hitler switches targets from airfields to London• Ends German threat of invasion of Britain
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Battle of Britain map
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Always good for a quote, Churchill
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Air raid shelter, The ‘Blitz’