Battle+of+Dunkirk



** Basic Information : **
 * **Date**: May 10th to June 3th, 1940.
 * **Location:** Dunkirk, France.
 * **Winner:** Germany-- Axis Powers.

**Six Events:** > work effiently and quickly. They were also considered to be the strongest army on the Allied side at the time. > escape routes were also blocked.
 * 1) In early May, Hitler orders the invasion of Holland, Belgium and France. After they are defended he plans to move and invade England.
 * 2) But little did Hilter know, that 330,000 troops of the Britsh Expeditionary Force were sent to defend France. The Britsh Expeditionary was a strike force, used to
 * 1) The German's thought if they could just defeat the British, that the war would be over and they would be home by fall.
 * 2) The Gernans had trapped the allied forces in the northernmost corner of France. Desite of all the causalities the Britsh troops could not leave because all of they're
 * 1) Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsay created an underground escape tunnel names Operation Dynamo. Only 8,00 troops made it through because the time it took creating these tunnels would take 40 days to get the rest of the troops out.
 * 2) [[image:Getting-the-hell-out-of-Dunkirk.jpg width="300" height="288" align="right" caption="Evacuation Of the British troops."]] Ramsay made a public call for help and asked anyone who owned any kind of boat to help evacuate   the troops. With the help of many people, Nine days later 338,226 trapped people had been rescued.

**Importanc**e:  The battle was important because it showed that allied powers was going to keep fighting Germany and they weren’t going to give in to them. Although France had lost, it showed that they can fight in the war. Many lives were also saved. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Personal Account:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">When Ramsay's call came, my father, a local fisherman, left in a panic with his boat to help save the troops that were trapped. He was gone for more then a week. My mother and I were so worried that maybe to had been trapped by the Germans also. -- We were worried sick. But on the ninth day, when my father returned his boat by his side, we couldn't have been more happy. He reported that the troops have been saved, but France had lost the battle.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> Leonard Deacon was a French solider that serived in the French army during the battle of Dunkirk. In short hand, he wrote about his experiences, daily reutines and his feelings while in war in his diary. To read a full transcript of Leonard's diary click here.

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> References : ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">"BBC - WW2 People's War - Dunkirk Diary." //BBC - Homepage//. BBC, 16 Feb. 2004. Web. 23 May 2011. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/22/a2301922.shtml>.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">"BBC - History - World Wars: Animated Map: The Fall of France (Dunkirk)." //BBC - Homepage//. BBC. Web. 23 May 2011. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/animations/wwtwo_map_fall_france/index_embed.shtml>.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Beck, Roger B.. et. al. //World History: Patterns of Interaction//. Evanston: McDougal Littell, 2009. Print.