HISTORY 126B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: French Colonial Empire, Maginot Line, Royal Air Force
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Day 8: collapse in the west (france falls, britain. 7:16 pm: after poland defeated >turn to west. May 10, marched into france: something widely discussed: why france fell, german army based strategies on understandings of wwi. German doctrine of modern warfare: combined arms (tank divisions that integrated use of infantry, artillery, engineers, etc. ) Wanted to avoid casualties form wwi: wwi end: tanks invented. French scattered tanks + controlled movements of french soldiers a lot >big mistake. Also a lot of their soldiers were untrained draftees: germans declared war on france, french troops kept building fortifications instead of training. "phoney war": "dr le de guerre" "what the hell is going on?" war: period between 9/3/1939 (when france + britain declared war on german) + They had some sort of idea but british weren"t ready for a war on the continent yet (there was british vs. germany for norway though) continent yet (there was british vs. germany for norway though)
