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Overview of WW2
1. Blitzkrieg on Poland-Sept 1939 2. Phoney War-
Winter 1939-40
3. Invasion of France-May/June 1940(Dunkirk-
Operation Dynamo)
4. Fall of France-Mussolini joins war
5. Battle of Britain-Aug/Sept
1940
6. Blitz-1940-41
7. Operation Barbarossa-1941
8. Battle of Stalingrad-1942-43
9. Pearl Harbour-Dec 1941
10 War in North Africa-1940-43
11. Operation Overlord (D-Day)-
6th June 1944
12. Battle of the Bulge-Dec 1944
13. Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Atomic Bomb)-Aug 1945
Dictatorship & Democracy 1920-1945
The Grand Alliance & The Turning Tide
World War 2: 1941-1944
The Grand Alliance
The Unites Kingdom
Winston Churchill
The United States
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Why was this Grand
Alliance so crucial to
defeating Hitler’s
Germany?
‘The Special Relationship’ Roosevelt wants to enter the War
American public against it. Why?
Lend-Lease is the half-way house
Roosevelt:Suppose my neighbor's home catches fire, and I have a length of garden hose four or five hundred feet away. If he can take my garden hose and connect it up with his hydrant, I may help him to put out his fire. Now, what do I do? I don't say to him before that operation, "Neighbor, my garden hose cost me $15; you have to pay me $15 for it." What is the transaction that goes on? I don't want $15--I want my garden hose back after the fire is over. All right. If it goes through the fire all right, intact, without any damage to it, he gives it back to me and thanks me very much for the use of it. But suppose it gets smashed up--holes in it--during the fire; we don't have to have too much formality about it, but I say to him, "I was glad to lend you that hose; I see I can't use it any more, it's all smashed up." He says, "How many feet of it were there?" I tell him, "There were 150 feet of it." He says, "All right, I will replace it." Now, if I get a nice garden hose back, I am in pretty good shape.
If your neighbour’s house is on fire,
you don’t haggle over the price of
the garden hose
Pearl Harbour
Japanese Home IslandsChina
Korea
New Guinea
Hawaii & Pearl Harbour
Indo-China
Siam
Burma
Manchuria
Solomon IslandsDutch East Indies
`Malaya
Philippines
The Japanese Empire1942
Attack on Pearl Harbour• 6 battleships sunk• 3,500+ U.S. casualties• N.B. Carrier’s out of port
– None damaged
“A day that will live in infamy…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqQAf74fsE
Effects…
‘Europe first’
Close co-ordination of…
Military resources
C&C
Intelligence
Resources – fuel, energy etc.
Roosevelt & Churchill
Uncle Joe
How was the
relationship
between Stalin
& the others
different?
The Allies…
Invasion of France…?
Invasion of Greece…?
Invasion of Sicily…?
North Africa…?
South-East Asia…?
The Eastern Front…?
Which was the most severe…?
Tehran Conference
What was decided?
Turning Points…. Stalingrad
Germans restart stalled eastern offensive
What’s their goal in attacking Stalingrad?
Rattenkrieg
What happened?
Zhukov launched huge counterattack: Operation Uranus
German 6th Army Encircled in the city
Winter Arrives – temp = c. -30˚
German’s attempt resupply by air – fails
Hitler refuses to allow breakout attempt
Paulus finally surrenders in Feb 1943
Why was this such a significant turning
point in the war?
Numbers…
150,000
13,500
400,000
750,000
5,500,000
10,000,000
30,000,000
Soviet soldiers sentenced to death…
Executed at Battle of Stalingrad
Penal battalions strength
Total NKVD strength
Axis forces committed to Barbarossa
Total USSR casualties in the war
Total number of men conscripted by the
USSR in WW2
Turning Points…. El Alamein
"Before Alamein we never
had a victory, after Alamein
we never had a defeat."
1943 – The Tide is Turned
Battle of the Atlantic
Codebreakers
North Africa
Invasion of Sicily & Italy
Surrender of Italy
Battle of Kursk
Kiev Retaken
……..
Theatres of War…Europe in 1943
Into 1944…
Allies…
Moving forward by land
Command of the Sea
Control of the Skies
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