Operation Blog is ACTIVE

OK students...this is the platform upon which students will share their knowledge and understanding of the great marker event of 20th century world history: World War 2. The rules are simple:

1. All students must make at least one post to this blog. Posts are in the form of reflections, opinions, links to articles, video, music, images, etc. Students must relate the nature of their posts to a theme of the conflict and make commentary.

2. All students must make at least one comment on another students post. Comments must be thoughtful, argumentative if inclined, insightful, or you my pose some question leads to another post by you or another classmate.

3. You must tag your post with the applicable theme(s).

4. Grades will be based on an holistic scoring scale which heavily weights the frequency and substance of posts and comments. Minimum participation equates to minimum scores for this class exercise.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Blitzkrieg War

The "Blitzkrieg" or Lighting war was invited by a german general named Hans Guderian. This war tactic was first uses in world war two, when Hitler was able to occupied Poland in just a couple of weeks. The tactic was planed in three easy and effective steps. First having the Air force booming in areas around the location they wanted to occupied, then they would used the tanks (lighting tanks which were able to run up to 60-80 km/h) which would destroy everything the air forces misses and were able to get into deeper location, lastly the foot soldiers would move into the location and destroy the left over things that the Air forces and the tanks has missed. The Nazis uses Blitzkrieg tactic to take over many countries in Europe in a short amount of time. The following is how the generals and soldiers would describe this tactic:


"Speed, and still more speed, and always speed was the secret……..and that demanded audacity, more audacity and always audacity."

Major General Fuller

"When the dive-bombers come down, they (the French) stood it for two hours and then ran with their hands over their ears."

"Sedan fell as a result of a bombardment……….it was a superb example of military surprise."

"The pace is too fast……it’s the co-operation between the dive-bombers and the tanks that is winning the war for Germany."

"News that the Germans are in Amiens………this is like some ridiculous nightmare."



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  1. RafaelMarch 6, 2010 at 11:54 PM

    I think that the Blitzkrieg played a very important role in the war because that was the main reason why Hitler was successful with conquering Europe, but when it came to "Operation Sea-lion" where the Germans can only depend on their air force the Germans failed, so the Blitzkrieg was a great success of Hitler.

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