Lecture #3: Germany's March of Conquest

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Across
  1. 3. driving force behind anti-Hitler conspiracy in the Abwehr
  2. 4. conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union
  3. 6. placed in command of the German invasion of Denmark and Norway
  4. 9. French General who believed that tank formations supported by aircraft would be the key to winning the next war
  5. 13. codename for the German invasion of Denmark & Norway
  6. 14. led Finnish resistance to the Soviet invasion
  7. 16. codename for the German invasion of Poland
  8. 19. German dive bomber, largely unopposed in the German invasion of Poland
  9. 20. commander of Army Group South in the German invasion of Poland
  10. 23. one of the German officers who helped develop the concept of combined arms
  11. 24. British Generalwho believed that large tank formations were the weapons of the future
  12. 25. "lightning war"
  13. 26. British captain who developed the "expanding torrent" theory
  14. 27. one of the German officers who helped develop the concept of combined arms
Down
  1. 1. commander of Army Group North in the German invasion of Poland
  2. 2. the part of Poland that wasn't directly annexed by Germany was turned into this
  3. 5. German invasion of Belgium, the Netherlands, and France
  4. 7. "phony war"
  5. 8. German officer who published Achtung Panzer! in 1937
  6. 10. German code device
  7. 11. German Armed Forces Intelligence
  8. 12. appointed by Stalin, defeated the Finns
  9. 15. Hitler's plan to make Germany self-sufficient in resources and ready for war
  10. 17. Plan Allied plan to place troops in central Belgium to meet possible German invasion
  11. 18. largest defensive system ever built, stretching from the Swiss border to the convergence of France, Belgium, and Luxembourg
  12. 21. German defensive fortifications on their western border, also known as the West Wall
  13. 22. codename for intelligence gotten after the breaking of German codes