How did germany defeat france in ww2?
Hitler also thought he was very smart by having signed a mutual nonaggression pact with Stalin in the Soviet Union. Not for Hitler a two-front war as the Germans had lost in 1918. Fortunately for all of us living today, after the fall of France Hitler thought he was safe in the west when he suddenly turned on his “ally” Stalin a year later in 1941. What he didn’t count on was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December of that year bringing the Americans into the war. Then he made his fatal mistake by declaring war on us, as did Mussolini in Italy (which neither of them was required to do under the terms of the Tripartite Pact with Japan), giving us all the excuse we needed to emphasize our “Germany First” policy. Hitler was no longer safe in the west. He was about to be fighting on two fronts, exactly what had cost the Germans the first war, and Hitler was already losing in the east because the Red Army proved to be much more of a worthy opponent than Hitler had expected. But it w
