The Battle for France: 1940
   
   

Briey

Münich

Alsace & Lorraine

Vosges

Maginot Line (1930-38)

Gen. Joffre

Gen. Petain

Ardennes

Dyle

Plan D (1939)

French-Polish Alliance (1921)

French-Czechoslovak Alliance (1924)

Little Entente (1921)

Rhineland (March 1936)

Austria (March 1938)

Münich Conference (October 1938)

Sudentenland (October 1938)

Western Czechoslovakia (March 1939)

Chamberlain

British Guarantee to Poland (March 1939)

World War II (1939-1945)

Plan Z

Katyn

Nazi-Soviet Pact (23 Aug 1939)

Gen. Halder

Siegfried Line (1938-39)

Spanish Civil War (1936-39)

Gen. von Richthofen

Gen. Guderian

Liddell Hart/Fuller

Gen. von Seeckt

Reichswehr-Red Army Agreement (1922-33)

Luftwaffe

Daladier/Reynaud

Gen. Gamelin

Gen. von Thoma

Franco

Halifax/Eden

German invasion Norway/Denmark (9 April 1940)

Narvik/Lapland

Iron Gates of the Danube

SIS (MI-6)

Baku/Batum

Adm. Darlan

Gen. von Manstein

Gen. von Rundstedt

Fall GELB (10 May 1940)

Breda

Sambre

Lys

Escaut (aka Scheldt)

Scarpe

Oise

Aisne

Namur

Dinant

Stonne

Gen. Flavigny

Arras

Gen. Rommel

Abbeville

Dunkirk

Operation DYNAMO (26 May--3 June 1940)

Gen. Gort

Mers El Kebir (3-4 July 1940)

ME 109E

forward defense

methodical battle

French B-1

Pkw I and II

Panzer division

dive bomber

schwerpunkt

order of battle

close ground support

standing start