History 12
  • Term 1
    • Paris Peace Treaty>
      • The motives of the USA at the Peace Treaty
      • The motives of France at the Peace Treaty
      • The Motives of Great Britain at the Peace Treaty
      • ‘The Big Three’
      • Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points
      • The War Guilt Clause
      • War Reparations
      • The Treaties with the Lesser Powers
      • Nationalism and the Formation of New Countries - Territorial Losses and Gains
      • The Formation of the League of Nations (Collective Security)
      • territorial losses and gains
      • Time Line Of World War 1
    • Russia 1917-1945>
      • Abdication of the Tsar, Feb./March Revolution 1917
      • The Provisional Government
      • The Bolsheviks: October/November Revolution 1917
      • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918
      • Vladimir Lenin
      • Russian Civil War 1919-21
      • War Communism
      • Leon Trotsky vs. Josef Stalin
      • Collectivization
      • Industrialization, 5 year plans 1928-1941
      • Show Trials and the Great Purges
      • Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact
      • Operation Barbarossa
      • Stalingrad
    • Boom and Bust -USA in the 20s and 30s>
      • Boom Time: Society in the 20’s
      • A Consumer Society
      • Henry Ford, Assembly Lines and the Model T
      • Isolationism
      • The Washington Naval Conference, 1921
      • The Dawes Plan, 1924 The Young Plan, 1929
      • The Downfall: Agricultural Recession
      • Buying on the Margin
      • Black Tuesday, October 22, 1929:Stock Market Crash
      • USA in the 1930’s: The Great Depression
      • Herbert Hoover and Hoovervilles
      • Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 100 Days
      • The New Deal
      • Alphabet Agencies
      • John Maynard Keynes
      • Fire Side Chats
    • Europe in the 20s and 30s>
      • The Weimar Republic
      • The Maginot Line
      • The Beer Hall Putsch and Mein Kampf
      • Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism
      • Locarno and Kellogg-Briand Pacts
      • Gustaf Stresemann and The Dawes Plan
      • Early Acts of Appeasement
      • Final Acts of Appeasement
      • The Spanish Civil War
      • Hitler and the Rise of Nazism
      • Anti Semitism and the Holocaust
    • World War 2>
      • The Invasion Of Poland
      • The Invasion Of Norway And The Low Countries
      • Invasion Of France
      • The Battle Of Britain
      • The Battle Of The Atlantic
      • North Africa
      • Italy In Greece And Yugoslavia
      • Operation Barbarosa
      • Pearl Harbour
      • Japan's Need For Natural Resources
      • Stalingrad, Kursk, El Alamein
      • Island 'Hopping'
      • Invasion of Italy
      • D-Day
      • The Manhattan Project
      • The Battle of the Bulge and Hitler's Death
      • Iwo Jima and Okinawa
      • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
      • The Wartime Conferences: Opening Shots of The Cold War
      • Advances in Technology
      • The Nuremburg Trials
  • Term 2
    • The Early Cold War>
      • A Bi-Polar World
      • The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
      • 1948 Coup in Czechoslovakia
      • Yugoslavia and Albania " Cracks in the Iron Curtain"
      • The Berlin Blockade/Airlift 1948
      • NATO and Warsaw Pact
      • The Korean War, 1950-53
      • Nikita Krushchev and De-Stalinization
      • Eisenhower Doctrine
      • The Hungarian Uprising, 1956
      • The Space Race and Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM’s)
      • The Rise of John F. Kennedy
      • The Berlin Wall, 1961
      • The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
      • The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963
    • Late Cold War>
      • The Gulf of Tonkin and The Vietnam War
      • Ho Chi Minh and Vietcong
      • Vietnamization
      • The Leonid Brezhnev Era
      • Lyndon B. Johnson
      • Mutually Assured Destruction
      • Czechoslovakia 1968
      • Richard Nixon and Detente
      • Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
      • Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty 1 and 2, 1974
      • The Helsinki Accords 1975
      • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
      • Ronald Reagan
      • Star Wars and Strategic Defense Initiative
      • Mikhail Gorbachev
      • Perestoika and Glasnost
      • The Falling of The Berlin Wall, 1989
      • Coup in Russia, 1991

Invasion of France

Blitzkrieg rendered the maginot line useless
french army was still using WWI tactics
BEF sent to reenforce france
allies saved a lot of troops at dunkirk
the invasion of france was arguably the biggest lost to the allied casue. german advanced tactics such as blitskrieg were able to break through the maginot line. the germans also attacked through the ardennes forrest. the french fell within a year and a new french government was set up in vichy. this government was headed up by general petien.
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