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Resistance Movements
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Resistance Movements of World War II
What Are They?
Underground movements against ruling groups by non-ruling groups during WWII
Resistance movements occurred in every occupied country
Several dozens of resistance movements occurred in WWII
It was difficult to have full-scale resistance without being caught and shut down, so there were many individual ones
Different Kinds of Resistance Movements:
- Non-cooperation through nonviolence
- Propoganda
- Outright warfare/attempts to recapture lost territory
- Assisting the "enemy"
Movements of Resistance during the War:
FRENCH RESISTANCE
France was taken over by Germany in 1940
The French Resistance was vital in aiding the Allies
- Provided intelligance reports on Germany in France
- Disrupted German supply, communication, and operations in France
French Resistance intelligence on Germany led to and aided the carrying out of D-Day
Yugoslav Partisans - largest resistance movement
- Yugoslavia invaded by Germany in 1941; the Yugoslavian Communists organized and fought the occupants. They aided the Allied powers, and vice versa.
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