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 union with technical knowhow and machine tools
d) The period after the German invasion of Poland was called the Phoney war because
e) At sea the allied blockade didn’t look like a serious threat to the German economy. On land French disposed their armies along the frontier, and the British sent nearly all soldiers they had to help them. Together the French and British tried to persuade the Belgians and the Dutch to join them in a common plan for the defence of the West
f) On April German troops had landed in chief Norwegian ports, and the allied forces now faced an army for whom they had not prepared
g) Norway surrendedred and Hitler set up a puppet government there headed by the leader of the Norwegian Nazi Party
h) The phoney war ended when Winston Churchill became British Prime minister because Churchill will fight, not appeasement; phoney war was over since appeasement was over, Churchill was willing to fight instead of negotiating with the germans.
3. a) Maginot line was an area which the French hadn’t troubled to protect; and it was exactly there that Hitler made his thrust spearheaded by no fewer than 7 armoured missions, attacked where people least expected.
b) The operation dynamo was a plan to lift what the British admiralty could of a trapped british army and their drench allies from the beaches of Dunkirk.
c) on June 10 Mussolini attacked in the south east- a French force, outnumbered by more than two to one, stopped the Italian invasion in its tracks
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e) Chruchill’s government did not want to see the whole of france under the nazi occupation