Presentations

I found both presentation pretty informing. The one about the fort was intersting to know that the Belgiums had one last effort to protect themselves was good. To know that they hoped to hold them off for weeks so they and the french could mobolize makes sense to why the belgiums and french fell so fast. I learned that they had one of the most advanced forts. Even though they did have an advanced fort, germans strength prevailed over it.
For the battle the allies learned that paratroopers could be successful is used properly. It lead to the development of paratroopers in other countries all over. but hitler was to rash to rush to judgement over them and scraped any further use of them just shows how unpredictable he was. I learned that there was heavy losses to the allies and the island was a strong hold for them.

I read about the u-boats and the battle of atlantic. To know so few u-boats sunk so many boats was astonishing. To think if the germans could have had more u-boats in the ocean what the damage could have been. Then the US got into the was with shipping equipment over to the other allies and when they lost significant boats, they came up with new and faster ways to build them. This is what i think turned the war in the atlantic around. Without the US coming up with this new way of building them it could've turned extemely disaterous for everyone.