InNo+samuelguo0801+3.7.2011

War in the West
 * From lightning to phoney war
 * Blitskrieg
 * aimed to be fast as possible and smash defences
 * use of combined force of aircraft, tanks, and infantry
 * On 28 september people of Warsaw surrendered
 * The phoney war
 * 2 days after German invasion on poland France and Britain declared war
 * Hard for them to do anything
 * Instead prepared to fight war in western europe
 * Sand bags put up
 * Gas masks distributed
 * Half million women and children evacuated
 * Nothing happened for nine months
 * The fall of western europe
 * Germany attacks Norway
 * Germans invaded Norway in April 1940
 * Because British were laying mines along Norwegian coast
 * Germans get half their metal from Sweden
 * Cannot afford it to be blocked
 * British Navy attacked and sank many german ships
 * but they were poorly trained
 * poorly equipped
 * no planes to protect them
 * Germany attacks the west
 * Germany used bllitzreig tactics on France
 * Called Operaation Yellow
 * Invaded through wooded areas of ARdennes
 * Swept through France highspeed
 * British and French were trapped in Dunkirk
 * Organized seaborne rescue mission