NOTES ON LIGHTNING WAR TO PHONEY WAR TO THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN SEPTEMBER 1939 TO NOVEMBER 1940

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LIGHTENING WAR TO PHONEY WAR TO THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

SEPTEMBER 1939 TO NOVEMBER 1940

1. The political and military leaders  were determined not to fight a war of attrition; they would not re-live the nightmares of Verdun, the Somme and Passcendale

b) The French and British would protect themselves against air attack and weaken Germany by naval blockade, as their greatest strengths were their defenses.

c) The blitzkrieg was surprise, speed and weigh of attack, using the tank and warplane. First the airforce would attack, bombing enemy positions and airfields; then heavy tanks would smash through the front.

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2. a) as Hitler’s armies attacked Poland in the east, British and French forces remained on the defensive in the West. The German Fuhrer in this was already had one enormous advantage over the German Kaiser in the last

b) The gain for the Russians was a front line further to the west. The Russians now tried to bully another neighbor, Finland, into parting with territories. The Finns refused and Russians invaded

c) Germany and Russia signed a commercial treaty; Russia agreed to supply Grain and raw materials such and copper and tin; while in return Germany provided the soviet ...

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