HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT FOR THE RAPID DEFEAT OF THE ANGLO-FRENCH ALLIES IN 1940 is the essay title. please use uk english.doulbe line spacing and ariel 14.i use the numeric reference system. the books i have been reading are the fall of france the nazi invasion of 1940 by julian jackson france and belguim by b bond some recent historians and the.
H itler unleashes his blitzkrieg invasion of the Low Countries and France with a fury on May 10, 1940. (see Blitzkrieg, 1940) Within three weeks, a large part of the British force, accompanied by some of the French defenders, is pushed to the English Channel and compelled to abandon the continent at Dunkirk.
The Fall of France in 1940 is one of the pivotal moments of the twentieth century. If the German invasion of France had failed, it is arguable that the war might have ended right there. But the French suffered instead a dramatic and humiliating defeat, a loss that ultimately drew the whole world into war.
Adolf Hitler after the fall of France was the master of Europe. He controlled or dominated Europe from Poland to the Pyranees. No other modern conqueror other than Napoleon had amassed such an empire. This placed enormous industrial potential and resources at the command of NAZI Germany. The German military had modern weaponry and a tactical dictrine that no other country at the time could match.
In World War II, the Battle of France, also called the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, from 10 May 1940, and ended the Phoney War.The battle was made up of two parts. In the first, called Fall Gelb in German (called Case Yellow in English), German tank units pushed through the Ardennes, to circle the Allied units that moved into Belgium.
The immediate context of the Dunkirk evacuation was Germany’s invasion of the Low Countries and northern France in May 1940. On May 10 the German blitzkrieg attack on the Netherlands began with the capture by parachutists of key bridges deep within the country, with the aim of opening the way for mobile ground forces.
The Rise And Fall Of The British Empire. Perhaps the biggest legacy of the British empire is linguistic influence over the world making me, living in a country far from the former empire's borders and born almost fifty years after its collapse, do a research paper in a language which is not my native tongue.