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Line in France bypassed by attacking Germans?
Maginot Line
France's types of shelter?
Hmm. Not sure if this is what you mean. The Maginot Line was the defensive line of forts and bunkers that France built along its border with Germany after WW1. France thought Maginot Line would protect them from another invasion by Germany. However, the Germans simple attacked through Belgium and went around the forts.
The maginot line failed to hold back the nazi invasion of what country?
France. This was a "false" line that was mistaken for a secure means to keep the Germans at arms length.
How did the Nazi take over France so easily?
The French were focused on the French-German border, meanwhile, the Germans entered France through Belgium. The Germans were able to quickly flank the French forces, and kept the French pinned until they retreated to England.
Where did British and France forces settle in 1939 and 1940?
In Northern France behind the Maginot Line.
What was the line in France bypassed by the Germans?
Maginot Line
Line in france by passed by attacking germans?
Maginot Line.
Line in France bypassed by attacking Germans?
Maginot Line
Why was the decision to leave French forces behind the magi not line disastrous for Europe?
The Germans simply out-flanked the Maginot Line by invading France through Belgium.
What was the Maginot line in the book A Separate Peace?
The Maginot Line was a long line of underground artillery fortifications constructed by the French to repel an invasion by Germany. The Germans simply went around them.
What was the mainot line?
Maginot? A French defensive system built on the border with Germany to prevent invasion. Unfortunately the Germans came through Holland and Belgium...
How was Hitler able to so easily conquer France?
The Germans made an end run (flanking maneuver) around the Maginot Line through the Low Countries.
What occured on the maginot line during World War 2?
It was incomplete. The Germans made some feint attacks, but it was outflanked by the Panzer advance through the Ardennes & was effectively useless as a defensive line.
Why did France fall quickly in 1940?
They concentrated most of there military on a long strip of land called the maginot line. The Germans first made a diversion on the upper half of the maginot line to draw the french away from the bottom half. Then they attacked the bottom using blitzkrieg and cut off multiple sections of the maginot line. Other than that, the french had no other defense against the germans.
French failed line of defense?
The French failed line of defense during World War II was the Maginot Line. This series of fortifications was built along the French-German border to deter an invasion, but the Germans circumvented it by attacking through the Ardennes Forest, which was lightly defended. This led to the rapid defeat of France in 1940.
France's types of shelter?
Hmm. Not sure if this is what you mean. The Maginot Line was the defensive line of forts and bunkers that France built along its border with Germany after WW1. France thought Maginot Line would protect them from another invasion by Germany. However, the Germans simple attacked through Belgium and went around the forts.
What occurred on the maginot line?
As it as incomplete the German Blitkreig in 1940 simply went around it. Notably there was a fortress, in Belgium, Eben Emael, which the Germans successfully assaulted by aerial attack, but the Maginot line was, by & large, ignored.
