The German blitzkrieg was a military strategy that depended on what advantage?
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Speed and strength. Blitzkrieg means "lightning war". They relied on being able to strike fast and hard against their target and completely destroy them. Thereby winning faster.\n\n\npeace
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You realize you don't have any conception of what you're babbling on about. I can tell that you haven't a clue as to military strategy. Bet you weren't even in the Coast Guard.\nForget it pal. You strike me as the type who'd take a division full of infantry and armor and run them straight into the gates of hell without any idea what kind of terrain, enemy strength, pending weather conditions and access to supply lines.\nIt was good knowing your Herr Oberstrumfuher.....can I have your boots and hat when you're gone?
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The only forces capable of attacking Switzerland were the Axis, but it would be too costly. Switzerland would be strongly defended, and the Swiss were very accommodating to the axis for most of the war, plus it was more useful to have a nearby (semi) trustworthy neutral country.\n\nWhere do you think the Nazi highups banked their ill gotten gains?
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This is based off of Lands and Territories Conquered which deals with both Tatics and Logistics\n\n\nJulius Ceasar\nAlexander the Great\nAttilla the Hun\nNapoleon (prior to invading Russia)\nGeneral Rommel\nHo Chi Minh  (not for territory but overall Strategy in defeating a World Power)\nColen Powell  (1st Gulf War)
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Hitler used blitzkrieg, or lightening war.  He invaded so quickly and secretly that nobody had the time to resist.  He just rushed in and took Poland.  He tried following with attacking other countries, but some were not as easy.\n\nwww.wikipedia.org is a good place to look it up, but the site is down right now--technical difficulties (probably hacked).\n\nHere is a timeline that may help.  Start looking at 1939 and go up.\n\nhttp://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/start.html
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Operation Market Garden was done with the objective of securing the 3 bridges into Arnhem to restart the quick advance of the Allies. It was planned out by British General Montgomery and it was so screwed up. The strategy was to paradrop a bunch of troops behind enemy lines and then capture the bridges. A tank division would then come and reinforce them. However, the German commander in the area was the one who created the idea of paradropping troops so that screwed the Allies alot. Also, the Allies didn't even bother to bomb or bombard the area before they dropped so a bunch of their planes were shot down and they're parachute guys killed before they touched the ground. One of the officers that got captured was carrying a piece of paper which had every last detail to the plan which was incredibly stupid. Lastly, there was only one road for the tanks to come in so they were kinda screwed too.
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German inviciblility was thought of because they conquered Much of Europe in Under a year. That invincibility myth was broken when the they tried to invade Britain. The Royal Air Force under the Command of Sir Hugh Dowding defeated the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) in the Battle of Britain. The Battle lasted from May-September 1940. Giving germany a taste of defeat and breaking the myth of German invicibility, which was added to by the Russians holding out against the Germans in the defence of Moscow.
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Die Kraft erobert alles, aber ihre Siege sind vergänglich.\n(Force conquers/overpowers everything, but its victories are transitory--exact word-for-word translation is generally awkward.)
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Well, initially we were sending supplies over to Europe on ships that we told the Germans were just regular, simple ships...but, we were spying.  Next thing you know, our very conservative focus on ourselves (the attitude had been, this is Europe's war, not ours) turned outwards and we helped win the war...based on a variety of facts that are aptly available in a million places, namely your library or textbook.  good luck.
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Actually, due to the treaty of Versailles, post WWI Germany was susceptible to many forms of totalitarianism.  There were communist, socialist as well as the group that finally won out, the National Socialist.  While the Nazis sounds like a left leaning organization, they were in fact a right leaning fascist party.  In fact, the Germans had units fighting in Spain, during the Spanish Civil war fighting for Franco and his group.
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The Germans at the time had technology comparable or superior to most countries of the time prior to the advent of A-Bomb. The Germans were well trained and had expert leadership. \n\nToward the end of the war, Germany had in development: nukes (heavy water), long range rockets/missiles, jet propulsion, the STG-44 (grandfather to the AK-47) among other things. They were a civilized society, but the ideology of their leadership would ultimately prove to be their downfall...\n\nThe regular army didn't fight a guerilla war that I know of. They used conventional means like the Allies.
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the French fighter caused heavy casualties on the German side, but did not impend progress due to the blitzkreig tactics\n\nin Iraq: the ones that kill fellow Iraqis of only 1 religon {shiite killing sunni} are in a civil war\n\nthe ones who target civillians and target whoever wherever {most forgeiners} are TERRORISTS\n\nthe ones who target U.S. forces ONLY are Freedom Fighers.
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germs. \n\nI saw an interesting program on Discovery about how the bubonic plague so reduced the population of Europe that poor peasants were able to acquire lots of land and wealth, thus leading to the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution. \n\nThen the germs won again by killing off the competition when Europeans came to the Americas and elsewhere. Accidental biological warfare was a tremendous advantage.\n\nThen there's the idea that Europeans were so used to killing each other that they'd already developed quite a bit of technology to use when they realized there were other people to kill, exploit, and displace.
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Though Belgium and Netherlands were neutral they were invaded (extra coast line, very important for trespassing to France, important industries, ...).   The benefit of invading was higher than the cost of fighting.\nSwiss had no important mines, watches are not important to make war and the bankers did business with everyone.\nStrategic not important.  (For the Swiss, I know it is a little bit simplified but these are the facts compared with other countries that were invaded).\nAt the other side if Hitler had invaded Switzerland he would have got to do a fight that should have cost him very dear.   The Swiss Army was well motivated and trained (and the swiss have a reputation of good soldiers that even a German will think twice), well armed,  modern fortress in the passes and a lot of montains where no tank can come.   Once invaded, the Swiss would have gone underground and give him something like in Yougoslavia but even worse (he should have to leave a lot of divisions to hunt the Swiss soldiers down in their proper playground, fun guaranteed.  Swiss like their freedom and are (still) prepared to fight for it.\n\nA surprise attack would not have worked because every Swiss has his military equipment at home, the paratroopers would have been the hunted within minutes.  All bridges and passes were undermined, so it could not have been a Blitzkrieg.\n\nSo, you see the cost would have been to high for what could have won.
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They found out the best way to survive as a nation was to isolate themselves from the outside as much as possible, and build up a strong national militia that would hide in the hills until the invaders ran away.  Nazi Germany didn't invade Switzerland because it would have been too costly, and provide too few resources.  They also thought they could attempt to politically coierce them into a union such as like the German-Austrian Anschluss.
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These were all properties of the Nazi movement, or Nazi Party, as it became.  Nationalism, the assumption that one's own nation is somehow more valuable or right than any other, was used to manipulate what had been a justifiable German pride, turning it into a negative thing. (Not "we are great," but "everyone else is worthless.")  Imperialism then followed rather inevitably from that: if the people of other countries are worthless or inferior, why not take them over, to improve them by making them German?  Militarism was then needed to achieve that goal, and Hitler assembled amazingly large and well-disciplined armies to carry out his imperialist purposes.  The war came, then, because the countries invaded did not just roll over and play dead, but fought back.
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The Battle of Kursk\n\nHaving been informed by a German offensive in Kursk, Gen. Georgi Zhukov prepared a defensive line with minefields, trenches, antitank guns, and the heavy T-34 tanks. When the Wermacht (German Army) reached Kursk, the Soviets launched a preparatory bombardment. Katyusha multiple rockets, known as Stalin Organs, thinned down the Germans. They Soviet Air Force also strafed Luftwaffe airfields, and dogfights involving thousands of aircraft aroused. Gen. Hoth's 4th Panzerarmee got into Soviet defenses, so Soviet reserves were rushed forward. About 800 T-34s clashed with the heavier King Tiger and Panther tanks equipped with Ferdinand self-propelled guns. The Germans lost a hundred tanks, and on July 15 Hitler called off the offensive.