What was the series of stationary defenses that were located along the German/French border and what kind of w

Question

world war 2

Answer 1

It was the Maginot Line, named after one André Maginot who happened to be the Minister of War at the time it was being built. A true 20th Century wonder...magnificent piece of engineering. It hauled troops from their canteens to their posts via electric trains, underground cinemas and dining, hydraulic lifts for the artillery shells from their deep magazines to the gun turrets....a veritable wonderland underground.

It spread from the Swiss Alps to the Ardennes Forest prior to 1940, but it stopped short of the Channel for fear of offending the Low Countries who would've felt abandoned. The Maginot Line was the epitome of trench warfare taken to the extremes. It depicted where the French Generals' mindset was, stuck on the battlefields of WWI, rather than the mobile battlefields of the upcoming war....

Answer 2

The Maginot Line, named after French minister of defense André Maginot was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, machine gun posts and other defenses which France constructed along its borders with Germany and with Italy, in the light of experience from World War I, and in the run-up to World War II. Generally the term describes either the entire system or just the defenses facing Germany, while Alpine Line is used for the Franco-Italian defenses. The French believed the fortification would provide time for their army to mobilize in the event of attack. The success of static, defensive combat in World War I was a key influence on French thinking. However, the fortification system utterly failed to contain the invading German forces in World War II, who simply manoeuvered around it. The term is sometimes used today to describe any comically ineffective protection.

Answer 3

The Maginot Line.