During the night of May 9th and 10th, 1940, Germany attacked Belgium and Holland. (Maps 1 and 2) Map 1—Western Front, May 1940 Map 2—The Attack Begins The French and their British allies had anticipated the attack, which was similar to how the Germans had started World War I a generation earlier, and they rushed forward to meet them. The idea was that when the trenches formed, as the allies believed they must, as they had in every war since the US Civil War, they would form outside the borders of France. (Map 3) Map 3—The Allies Respond It was a trap. It was as if the Germans had not
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