https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow Made with an open mind en-us 2018-04-17 15:18:01 UTC 2018-04-23 13:10:38 UTC hello@padlet.com 20zachoisa https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252620689 On May 10, Germany started the attack with an air raid on Belgium and  Holland. Followed by parachute drops and attacks by ground forces.
The speed of the Germans and the brutality of the air raids gave them a huge psychological advantage. ]]> 2018-04-17 15:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252620689 20zachoisa https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252624798 On 13 May, the first German forces emerged from the Ardennes. In a two-day battle, the tanks crossed the river, despite some surprisingly stiff resistance from the second-class French defenders, and near-suicidal attacks by Allied aircraft.]]> 2018-04-17 15:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252624798 20zachoisa https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252625028 On May 14 the Dutch surrendered.]]> 2018-04-17 15:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252625028 20zachoisa https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252632568 A potentially decisive counterattack by two high quality French tanks divisions fizzled out into some fierce, but ultimately inconclusive fighting. 
German tanks broke out of their bridgehead. They began to race towards the Channel coast, helped by the German aircraft that ruled the skies.]]> 2018-04-17 15:40:47 UTC https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252632568 20zachoisa https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252636546 With the Allied forces fighting in Belgium, there was little to stop the German forces as they sliced across the Allied supply-lines. The German reached the English Channel on May 20.]]> 2018-04-17 15:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252636546 20zachoisa https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252637952 The Allies tried to pull their armies out of Belgium to respond to the new threat. The Germans did not have it all their way, as French forces under Charles de Gaulle showed how vulnerable the flanks of the German forces were to bold counterattacks.]]> 2018-04-17 15:50:43 UTC https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252637952 20zachoisa https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252641672 On May 28 the Belgian army surrendered.]]> 2018-04-17 15:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252641672 20zachoisa https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252643257 The German fail to forces their attack on Dunkirk was largely thanks to grim defence of the Dunkirk perimeter by British and French troops.]]> 2018-04-17 16:00:20 UTC https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252643257 20zachoisa https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252645062 The Battle of France began on 5 June, with the Germans striking southwards from the River Somme.]]> 2018-04-17 16:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252645062 20zachoisa https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252645774 The Germans launched a major offensive on Paris on 9 June, and on 13 June Paris was declared an open city, as the French government fled to Bordeaux. The first German troops entered the French capital on 14 June.]]> 2018-04-17 16:05:24 UTC https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/252645774 20zachoisa https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/253077865 The end came with the surrender of France on 22 June. Hitler insisted on signing the document of capitulation in the same railway carriage used when Germany had surrendered in 1918. The humiliation of France was complete]]> 2018-04-18 16:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/20zachoisa/zooome9ccxow/wish/253077865