100 days in 1940, World War II: Winston Churchill, blitzkrieg and the "Finest Hour". On the May 10th 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom — and Germany launched its ...

In April 1940, Hitler launched a lightning assault on Norway, exploiting Allied hesitation and targeting strategic ports to secure vital resources. As Norway struggled to defend its homeland, ...

When Nazi Germany unleashed its military might, a new world was introduced into the lexicon of warfare, Blitzkrieg – Lightning War! Nearly all of Europe fell before the horrifying power of Hitler’s ...

At head of title: DK Smithsonian. Seeds of war, 1914-1938. The war to end war ; The flawed peace ; Fascism and Nazism ; Hitler takes power ; The Nazi state ; Civil wars in China ; Japan on the march ; ...

Hitler wanted Blitzkrieg from above. As the German military prepared to face off against Russia's underestimated, yet formidable, tank forces in Operation Barbarossa, Hitler belatedly realized the ...

Germany's blitzkrieg through France in June 1940 left the UK all alone against Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe. It was also a wake up call for the U.S.- still on the sidelines of World War II - that its air ...

"The text of these directives was originally published in Germany under the title of Hitlers Weisungen für die Kriegführung 1939-45, Dokumente des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht, edited by Walter ...