Strategies
The strategy of rapid, surprise attacks of concentrated firepower
What is Blitzkrieg?
Pincer attack on Belgium and Luxembourg
What is Case Yellow?
The part of France that Germany got to control after the Armistice
What is the North?
The German strategy of splitting their forces through Belgium and Luxembourg to enter into France
What is a pincer attack?
German attack on the South of France to get to Paris
The puppet government Germany instituted in France
What is the Vichy Regime?
The German strategy of surrounding the Allies (specifically trapping them at Dunkirk)
What is encirclement?
A series of heavily lined fortresses on the East Border of France
What is the Maginot Line?
The name of the French resistance movement
What is the Free France movement?
German air force
What is the Luftwaffe?
What is Armistice?
The leader of the French resistance movement
Who is Charles De Gaulle?
The German plan to invade France through Belgium and the Netherlands instead of through the shared border
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
Rescue of French and Belgian soldiers, trapped in Dunkirk, by sea
What is Operation Dynamo?
What conflict did the Fall of France spur
What is the Battle of Britain?