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Alecras, lots of reading and hopefully answer your questions, HyperWar: World War II on the World Wide Web
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Alecras234
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could you help me please with more questions and answers on the battle of france. I want to learn these basic facts then go into it in bit more detail, i want to learn WW2 European Theatre. This is what ive done so far, I may have worded the fourth one down wrongly, i need help.
What year did Germany attack Belgium and France? 1940
What was the tactic used by the Germans against Belgium and France? Blitzkrieg
How did the Germans attack Belgium and France? They passed by the Maginot Line attacking through the Ardennes Forest.
What was Germany's plan when they entered France? To divide the British and French armies
What was the Maginot line? A French line of defense along France's eastern border
What did the Maginot Line consist of? Weapons and Fortifications
Who were the Allied powers of WW2? Britain, France, Russia, America
Who were the Axis powers of WW2? Germany, Italy, Japan
What year did Germany attack Belgium and France? 1940
What was the tactic used by the Germans against Belgium and France? Blitzkrieg
How did the Germans attack Belgium and France? They passed by the Maginot Line attacking through the Ardennes Forest.
What was Germany's plan when they entered France? To divide the British and French armies
What was the Maginot line? A French line of defense along France's eastern border
What did the Maginot Line consist of? Weapons and Fortifications
Who were the Allied powers of WW2? Britain, France, Russia, America
Who were the Axis powers of WW2? Germany, Italy, Japan
As I had said it earlier.. these questions are fine. However The one is a little bit unclear for me.
What was Germany's plan when they entered France? To divide the British and French armies.
Germans didn't want to divide the British and the French armies rather. The Fall Gelb ( the code name of the German plan ) was to pull into fighting both armies on the Belgium and Holland terrytories. And then bottle them up nd shut off from reinforcments and supplies. Therefore the German troops attacking through the Ardennas Forest went west initially and then turned up to the North heading towards the English Channel , the Boulogne and Dunkirk harbours.
What was Germany's plan when they entered France? To divide the British and French armies.
Germans didn't want to divide the British and the French armies rather. The Fall Gelb ( the code name of the German plan ) was to pull into fighting both armies on the Belgium and Holland terrytories. And then bottle them up nd shut off from reinforcments and supplies. Therefore the German troops attacking through the Ardennas Forest went west initially and then turned up to the North heading towards the English Channel , the Boulogne and Dunkirk harbours.
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Alecras234
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So how should it be worded? i red that By pushing through the region Germany planned on dividing the Allied forces and circling around the Allied soldiers in order to trap them and cut them off from Allied support. How do i put that into a short Question and answer?
Yep that's almost exactly I have written above. Except the dividing.
I think the question and answer should be like that..
What was Germany's plan for defeating France? To bottle up and destroy Allied armies in the Belgium and the North France.
I think the question and answer should be like that..
What was Germany's plan for defeating France? To bottle up and destroy Allied armies in the Belgium and the North France.
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Alecras234
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To bottle up and destroy Allied armies in the Belgium and the North France. im sorry i dont understand the last part, the Belgium and the North France? Cant i put something on the lines of the BEF were separated from the rest of the French and british army?/
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Alecras234
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British Expeditionary Force. it says here As the German tank divisions pushed through into France, they circled north and raced to the English Channel. This maneuver cut off the British Expeditionary Force and other French soldiers from the rest of the army and they were threatened with losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers to the successful German assault.
Oh sorry I'm a little bit tired today. So ,my mind doesn't translate the English-Polish properly. Now your post sounds correct. The BEF was the only British Army in France and deployed just in the North France. Its units were involved in fighting against Germans with the French Army troops together just in the Belgium and the northern France..So the German's goal was to flank and defeat all units there but not dividing them into parts and destroying them separately. Therefore the general statment should say ..the Allied Forces. However , if you want to concentrate on the BAF more than on the general info you may use that name instead of the Allied Forces.
Here is a quite easy map showing that... It is not in English but please the the BEF was moved into the Belgium territory with the French troops together. The Ardennas Forest is marked with the green colour.
And here is the finall version of the Fall Gelb. Also please notice that the Germans were going to attack the rest of the French Army too while heading the North towards the English Channel.
So you may add these two questions if you want to say someting more about the BAF:
How the BAF was defeated by Germans in France? It was flanked and cut off from supplies at the Dunkirk..
What happened to the BAF? It was evacuated by the Royal Navy from the Dunkirk to the Great Britain.
Here is a quite easy map showing that... It is not in English but please the the BEF was moved into the Belgium territory with the French troops together. The Ardennas Forest is marked with the green colour.
And here is the finall version of the Fall Gelb. Also please notice that the Germans were going to attack the rest of the French Army too while heading the North towards the English Channel.
So you may add these two questions if you want to say someting more about the BAF:
How the BAF was defeated by Germans in France? It was flanked and cut off from supplies at the Dunkirk..
What happened to the BAF? It was evacuated by the Royal Navy from the Dunkirk to the Great Britain.
This was in the link I posted earlier, HyperWar: The War in France and Flanders, 1939-1940 (UK--History of the Second World War)
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