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Operational Outline: 1939 - 1945
I. PHASE ONE - BLITZKRIEG OF '39/'40
• 39' March: Germany occupied/annexes Czechslovakia
• 39' April: Italy invades/occupies Albania.
• 39' September: German invasion of Poland.
• 40' April: Germany invades/occupies Norway, Denmark
• 40' May: Germany invades Low Countries
• 40' June: Germany attacks/occupies France
• Option I: Destruction BEF at Dunkurk under Guderian, Rommel, Goring, Rundstedt
• Option II: Luftwaffe action against RAF sector and radar stations in preparation of Sea Lion.
• Option III: Hitler demands German passage via French N. Africa as condition of Parisian surrender and Vichy formation.
II. PHASE TWO - AFRICAN GAMBIT OF '40 - '42
• 40' August: Italy attacks Allies in Africa
• 40' September: Germany, Italy, Japan sign Axis Pact
• 40' October: von Thoma concludes N. Africa comments
• 40' November: 4 Pz, 3 Mtr Div. to N. Africa (Rommel)
• 40' December: Allies push Italian Army to Libya
• 41' March: 4 Pzr, 1 Mtr Div. push British to Egypt
• 41' May: Germans siezed Alexandria; Cairo; Suez
• 41' June: British Fleet to Red Sea
• 41' July: Yug., Gre., Rum., Bul., Fin. to Axis Pact
• 41' August: 3 Pzr, 2 Mtr Div. to French N. Africa
• 41' September: 1 Pzr, 1 Mtr Div. to Levant; Iraq
• 41' November: Axis in Sp. Morocco; Br. flee Gib.
• 41' December: Japan invades Thai., HK, Sing.; not US
• 42' April: Turk. joins Axis; Iraq joins Axis
• 42' - 43': Germ., Ital., Jap. consolidate Axis Pact
• 44' - 45': Unrest. Sub Warfare in Atlantic
• 42' - 50': Consolidate Zolleverien; Industrialize
• Option I: OKH authorizes seizure of Sp. Morocco; threatens Gib. British flee Malta. Seizure of Dakar, Senegal for use as Sub/Air base against So. Atlantic
• Option II: OKH authorizes infiltration of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uraguay; coerces Axis-sympathetic governments to declare for Germany
• Option III: Form European economic community to be dependant upon German aims; threaten Soviet Union into provision - via rail - of vital resources from Levant, Siberia, Far East. Slowly industrialize and expand to face US threat.
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