HIS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Yalta Conference, Ath, Falaise Pocket

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 1110
• Professor: Thomas Boogaart

Document Summary

Hitler"s diplomatic ofensive (1933 1939: getting germany into place for war and building up their armed forces. France and britain declare war: september 17th: russian invasion. Stalin joined in on the invasion in fear that hitler would cut him out of the deal. Poisoned any relation between stalin and the west: september 27th: polish surrender, katyn forest massacre. The soviets moved west: september 17th 1939: invasion of poland. Stalin wanted to enforce bufer states to keep hitler at bay: november 1939: winter war with finland, july 1940: occupation of baltic states. Germany"s blitzkrieg (lightning war: diplomatic strategy: war maneuver. Rethought how to escape a trench warfare: incorporation of new technologies. Used new technologies with old tactics: enigma. Used to send coded messages that would reset every 24 hours. Poland captured the device and made a copy. Sent to england to break the code. Allies had a glance at hitler"s playbook: could locate the u-boats, etc.