HIST 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Dnieper, Shared Belief, Erwin Rommel
10 Aug 2016
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The onset of total war: this was the kind of war widely expected in the 1930s after the experience of the great. German army and air force tore polish forces to shreds in a matter of days the western. Allies had expected a campaign of 6 months: on 10 may 1940 german forces tried again the gamble that had failed in the spring. Atlantic german submarines were ordered to strangle british trade and british reinforcements of the mediterranean and the far east. In 1941 submarines sank 1,299 ships; in 1942 1,662, with a total tonnage of almost 8 million. In march 1943 the level of attrition experienced by allied shipping was so high that the. East japan was one of the few naval powers to recognize the impact of aircraft. American ships also carried radar, and american radio intelligence had access to japanese codes; these last advantages were vital in the critical naval battles in the summer of 1942.
