USA HISTORY

WORLD WAR II 1941 1945

THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Germans first successfully used the blitzkrieg tactics by teaming up with the Soviets in an attack on what Eastern European country that led to Great Britain declaring war on Germany?
A
Poland
B
France
C
Finland
D
Czechoslovakia
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Poland, 1939 Although journalists popularized the term blitzkrieg during the September 1939 invasion of Poland, historians Matthew Cooper and J. P. Harris have written that German operations during this campaign were consistent with traditional methods.

Detailed explanation-2: -Blitzkrieg tactics were used in the successful German invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands, and France in 1940, which saw audacious applications of air power and airborne infantry to overcome fixed fortifications that were believed by the defenders to be impregnable.

Detailed explanation-3: -Blitzkrieg, meaning ‘Lightning War’, was the method of offensive warfare responsible for Nazi Germany’s military successes in the early years of the Second World War.

Detailed explanation-4: -Abstract. Seventy-five years ago, on June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, betting on a brief war with the firmest of goals, a type of war that came to be known as blitzkrieg. By June 1941 the German Wehrmacht had evolved into one of the most powerful and effective military machines in history.

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