Exam 2 Terms Part 1: Blitzkreig: The Winter War, The Invasions of Poland

1. Heinz Guderian

Wrote “Achtung Panzer!” Pioneer and champion of Blitzkrieg

2. Philippe Petain

Head of French city state Vichy France, Nazi collaborator and far right

3. Dunkirk

Between May 26 and June 4, the British Expeditionary Force was trapped at Dunkirk. The Royal Navy will evacuate over 338,000 troops in “Operation Dynamo.” About 850 civilians private boat owners were also “borrowed” as a fleet of “Little Ships.

4. Operation Sea Lion

Hitler was planning to eliminate Britain once and for all with an invasion across the English Channel

5. Coventry Controversy

The belief that Churchill get hit by a German raid which resulted in the death of 500 people and wounded around 400 people

6. J.F.C. Fuller

7. Winter War

Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939

8. Maginot Line

a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Nazi Germany and force them to move around the fortifications.

9. Dowding System

Hugh “Stuffy” Dowding created a strategy of air defense. Britain was divided into four vectors. Radar and coastal observers bolstered the Chain Home by giving more specific information on incoming German bomber groups. warned Fighter Command, who then vectors fighter groups intercept German bombers.

10. Armament in Breadth

dictated a fast war and minimum disruption to the domestic consumer economy

11. Battles of Narvik

2 battles for the port of Narvik, Norway. Weather patterns made is a strategic post

12. Vichy France

The French established a free zone known as Vichy France. The new government was led by Field Marshal Philippe Petain, old by now, a hero of the First World War. The Vichy government is associated with Nazi collaboration and the French far right.

13. Chain Home

Series of radar stations on the coast of UK, an early warning system.