HIST 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Panzer Division, Army Group A, Manstein Plan
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Khalkin gol russo-japanese battle in mongolia august 1939 doubtful that the connections between war in the east and the plans for war in the west and the nazi- In 1939 germany had 5446 military planes; raf had 1356; france had 1368 (the breakdown of the different types are in mycourses) land armies; germany 4. 6 million men mobilised, france had 5 million, and britain had 1. 27 million. The french were not ready for the kind of war that the germans had launched. August 9th 1790 prussia and britain promised that if france attacked (through) Belgium they would wage war but everyone understood that there was no alternative. The plan in the second world war was similar to the schlieffen plan but it wanted to make a single cut" through france to paris hitler also wanted to attack the maginot. Line and it worked because the french were too destabilised to react or defend properly.
