On May 1940, Germany invaded and eventually captured France. It was a strategic move for Germany, and it was a horrible loss for the French army. In fact, it was the fall of the French army(Taylor 48). The French was a major target for Germany to take out because it would dramatically increase the size it’s territory. The key German force attacked through the Ardennes Forest. The German soldiers easily breached through the French blockade(“German Invasion”). The British thought that the forest was no place for aromored vehichles, but that idea was the reason the German soldiers went through it so easily(Shaw 23). German tanks June 14, 1940, German soldiers marched through the streets of Paris with little resistance against them(World War 96). The day after the German victory, millions of allied soldiers and civilians fled in north France to escape before German units could get to them(World War
On May 1940, Germany invaded and eventually captured France. It was a strategic move for Germany, and it was a horrible loss for the French army. In fact, it was the fall of the French army(Taylor 48). The French was a major target for Germany to take out because it would dramatically increase the size it’s territory. The key German force attacked through the Ardennes Forest. The German soldiers easily breached through the French blockade(“German Invasion”). The British thought that the forest was no place for aromored vehichles, but that idea was the reason the German soldiers went through it so easily(Shaw 23). German tanks June 14, 1940, German soldiers marched through the streets of Paris with little resistance against them(World War 96). The day after the German victory, millions of allied soldiers and civilians fled in north France to escape before German units could get to them(World War