1. Case Yellow, Operation Dynamo, Case Red, and the Battle of France Shravani Kulkarni, Anna Johnson, Joe Addison, Lotan Mizrahi, Ayush Sharma

2. Thesis The battles that contributed to the fall of France led to the incomprehensible loss of people as well as the destruction of an entire army, and created a disturbance in the balance of power in Europe, giving Germany an advantage in World War II. Joe

3. Incomprehensible Loss French Casualties ●100,000 (army) killed ●100,000 (civilians) killed ●123,000 wounded ●330,000 displaced ●2,000,000 soldiers taken prisoner German Casualties ●50,000 killed during the invasion of France Joe

4. Timeline Operation Dynamo - May 26 1940 Paris is captured - June 14 1940 Battle of France Ends - June 25 1940 Case Yellow - May 10 1940 Case Red - June 5 1940 Paris Liberated - August 25 1944

5. Case Yellow- May 10, 1940 ●Aka: Fall Gelb ●+ for Germany ●Blitzkrieg: Lightning War o Failed in WWI ●October 19 o Brits and French forces split ●Belgium land for Germany: o Air Fields o North Sea ports The Jiggy ?

6. Initiation: ●‘Sickle Stroke’ allotted the three German army groups ●Group B- Northernmost commanded by General Fedor Von Bock was to attack in northern Holland and Belgium ●aim was to temp the Franco-British field army east to seize territory to outflank in the north ●Group C- Southernmost was to engage the garrison of the Maginot Line ●Rundstedt’s Army Group A- was to advance through the Ardennes Case Yellow- May 10, 1940 Lotan/Ayush

9. Timeline Operation Dynamo - May 26 1940 Paris is captured - June 14 1940 Battle of France Ends - June 22 1940 Case Yellow - May 10 1940 Case Red - June 5 1940 Paris Liberated - August 25 1944

10. Operation Dynamo- May 26, 1940 ●Operation Dynamo was the codename given to the British evacuation of Dunkirk ●The signal was given to begin Operation Dynamo at 18:57 hours on May 26, 1940. ●Mastermind - Vice-Admiral Bertram Ramsay ●British and French armies already cornered in Dunkirk by Germans as a result of Case Yellow in 1940, so gathering soldiers was not that big of an issue Shravani

11. Operation Dynamo- May 26, 1940 ●News about evacuation spread to Britain by May 29 ●Main goal was to evacuate 40,000+ troops (British Expeditionary Force and French army) under attack ●The British sent small boats (later known as “The Little Ships”) across the English Channel to rescue the troops on Dunkirk beach ●In the end, over 338,000 troops were evacuated to Dover (British port) Shravani

12. Map of Operation Dynamo

13. Timeline Operation Dynamo - May 26 1940 Paris is captured - June 14 1940 Battle of France Ends - June 22 1940 Case Yellow - May 10 1940 Case Red - June 5 1940 Paris Liberated - August 25 1944

14. Case Red- June 5-14, 1940 The goals of Case Red changed in the years leading up to it ●1935- meant to defend against a surprise attack by France while defending the borders against Czechoslovakia and Poland ●1937- included offensive operations against Czechoslovakia with the aim of preventing a prolonged two-front war ●1940- the second part of the western campaign, attack on the rest of the French army which was still entrenched in the Maginot line Anna

15. Case Red- June 5-14, 1940 Preliminary Attack ●started on June 5th in the west ●battle over the Somme River ●moving towards the Seine Case Red had two sub-operations Main Offensive ●started on June 9th over the Ainse River ●Penetrated the Maginot line, which allowed German troops to cut off the armies stationed in French bunkers on June 17th ●That same day, France asked for an armistice and officially capitulated on June 25 Anna

16. Case Red Map Maginot Line

17. Timeline Operation Dynamo - May 26 1940 Paris is captured - June 14 1940 Battle of France Ends - June 22 1940 Case Yellow - May 10 1940 Case Red - June 5 1940 Paris Liberated - August 25 1944

18. Paris is Captured ●By June 14, the Germans had taken control of Paris and the French army had been completely destroyed ●Prime Minister of France resigned and his successor, Marshal Phillipe Petain began moves for an armistice ●Armistice signed on August 22, but not put into effect until August 25, marking the end of the Battle of France. Anna

19. Timeline Operation Dynamo - May 26 1940 Paris is captured - June 14 1940 Battle of France Ends - June 22 1940 Case Yellow - May 10 1940 Case Red - June 5 1940 Paris Liberated - August 25 1944

20. Hitler’s Jig Shravani

21. Timeline Operation Dynamo - May 26 1940 Paris is captured - June 14 1940 Battle of France Ends - June 25 1940 Case Yellow - May 10 1940 Case Red - June 5 1940 Paris Liberated - August 25 1944

22. Liberation Of Paris ●On August 25, the German commander of the Paris region, General Dietrich von Choltitz signed a surrender at Montparnasse Joe

23. Overall Impact of Battle ●The defeat of the French (which was very powerful) stands as one of the most remarkable military campaigns in history ●French collapse ripped up the balance of power in Europe ●Britain had to fight the rest of World War 2 in the air, and sea (Mediterranean) but not on the Western Front. Joe

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