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Introduce myself and lauryn tell what our topic is
Slide 2 France had planned for the german invasion using multiple methods from building vast fortifications and formations of troops for when the Nazi invasion occurred. France’s neighbor Belgium refused to allow French troops to enter the country to remain neutral in the conflict. Belgium would only allow the troops to enter if it was attacked by another country. This led to the development of the deal plan by France. This plan worked by taking the troops from the French border and moving them across the Belgian frontier to for a wall blocking the german troops from taking over the Belgian capital and forming a clear front between Germany and the western countries.
Slide 3 France’s plan to prevent a German invasion included vast complex system of tunnels, forts, and ground artillery along the border between france and Germany in the region of
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Germans went into the city with no resistance because french troops abandoned the city and declared the city open for germans to enter.
Slide 10 - Jun 22 France signed an armistice with Germany that went into effect 3 days later on June 25. This armistice was signed in the same train car the Germany had surrendered in during WW2
Slide 11 - The armistice gave the territory, Alsace-Lorraine to the third reich and all of the Northern and Western coasts were put under Nazi occupation for the remainder of the war. In the South section of France, a so-called ‘free zone’ was created with a puppet government set up in Vichy, France. This government was considered neutral in war but sided with Germany and helped with its racist policies against minorities in Europe.
This government only lasted until November 1942 after Ally attacks on French controlled Northern Africa. The entirety of the country became occupied by Nazi Germany and all citizens were banned from coastlines in France.
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And Germany would not have that much of an advantage if they did invade. Source A can teach you a lot about the war and the opinion people had about war, and other
This shows that Germany is no position to go into war. Alsace Lorraine made it so they can’t place troops on the West side of the area. The Polish Corridor has a nice chunk of land to defend from attacks. Technically
The Nations allowed Germany to do what they wanted, in fear of another World War. This granted Hitler power and he continued to take land and finally in 1939 Hitler wanted
The Treaty of Versailles meant that Germany would get land taken away from them. According to Document A, it states “The Treaty took Alsace and Lorraine away from Germany, reducing German
In 1914 it was implemented by Colonel-General Helmuth von Molke. It was intended to be a response to a two front war, but due inaccurate assumptions and miscalculations of implementation the Schlieffen Plan was a failure. The German army failed to go south and east of Paris, which was the original plan. The two armies that were supposed to go South and west were then North West of Paris pushing the armies too close together resulting in a stalemate which produced trench warfare. One of Germany’s inaccurate assumptions was that Belgium will not fight in response to the invasion.
The proposal moved from an initial aim to forge through Belgium to an armed thrust through the south Belgian border. Horne credits luck to the Germans on this part, because France had committed their weakest units to the southern border of Belgium. This later led to France’s best men seeing little to no action until they were cut off or even surrounded.
The Fall of Fort Eben Emael: Following World War I, in preparation for another potential German invasion, France and Belgium bolstered their defenses along their eastern borders. France built the Maginot Line, a series of walls and fortifications that ran the length of its border with Germany and Switzerland. Belgium strengthened its fortifications along the border with Germany and the Netherlands, including building a fort in the town of Eben Emael. Fort Eben Emael utilized the best technology of the time and was believed to be impregnable.
In France their main goal was to prevent the Germans from taking Paris. Such as in Gallipoli the ANZACs on the Western Front tried many different campaigns to try and drive out the Germans. Aubrey
By engaging in certain actions, they only welcomed the Americans into the war front opposed to keeping them at bay. With the addition to the biological agents that were used to kill the livestock being provided to the allied front during the war, the first act of Bioterrorism can be seen in the world. And the damage inflicted to the French almost had cost them the war and allowed for a German victory had the Germans learned of the mutiny that had occurred on a French regiment. Warfare had been changed after that war, the war that would be terrible enough to end all wars, but in fact gave rise to a great deal of new technology
On March 7th, 1936, Germany entered a buffer zone between Paris and Germany called Rhineland. The Treaty of Versailles, the treaty signed after WW1 to punish Germany, clearly stated that Germany was not to enter this area. As a result, Paris appealed to the League of Nations, the group of countries who worked together to stop illegal behavior like what Hitler and Germany was doing. Allowing Germany to keep his forces in Rhineland would mean letting them violate the rules for their own benefit, which is something collective security would enforce before Germany got too far. Other countries also got away with breaking the rules without the needed interference of colIective security.
They felt vulnerable to everyone. France is right next to Germany, and refuse to let them have any military forces at the border. (Doc A) Germany is even more defenseless and they have to obey by what France tells them. Since
This action was disgraceful, military battles were known to be fought combatinance versus combatinance. In this matter, Germany will stop these surprise attacks, only because they were against the U.S.becoming involved and declaring war. Adhering to this pledge because the U.S. warned that it would break off all diplomatic relations unless done so, Germany did, until a few years later. German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman sent a secret message, coded with Germany’s plans, to Count Johann von Bernstorff, Germany’s imperial ambassador, on around January 16th and 19th. In the process of this time, British governments had “intercepted the telegram and began decoding.”
200,000 Germans became prisoners in Falasie pocket. Only around 15,000 French men were killed. This was a turning point in the war because many men were wounded, captured, or killed in a very short amount of time. Also the amount of air and naval help from the Allied countries really helped, it was twelve countries against Germany. The war may have turned out a lot differently if General Eisenhower waited two weeks for the storms to come, instead of last minute deciding to proceed with he plan on June 6th.
On May 10, 1940, Nazi Germany began an immense attack against Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. Defending those countries were soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force, along with the French, Belgian, and Dutch (Allied) armies. The
Germany, who would be unable to sustain the resources to fight to the desired outcome, would gain a better position through negotiation than it could through ongoing battle. This proved to be