7. What's your take on how France surrendered in WW2 and had to be saved by the Americans?
Nice try, but I'm not that French
French build the Ligne Maginot after WW1, it 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. We did not think about airplane (they fly over walls and bunkers...) not that the germans will invade Belgium first and then attack that Ligne Maginot backward (and it was not made to fight that direction).
How could I defend that? So we were dumb, pretentious, disorganised and lost that war quickly. The true question is did we change? hehe.