Mar. 7-11

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Monday-Finished Great Britain- Mr Bruns

Tuesday- Took quiz and went over WWII Projects

Wednesday-

Thursday-

Friday-

Great Britain

Battle of Britain

• Germany
  • needed air superiority
  • during the day
    • attacked military bases
  • during the night 
    • tera-bombing
    • attacked random buildings
• Great Britain
  • Kept air superiority 
  • Defended against German attacks

Soviet Union

 

-Major events that impacted their country between WWI and WWII.

• Bolshevik Revolution
  • A revolution started that pulled the Soviet Union out of the World War I

• Stalin Acts

• Deports people to slave camps in Siberia
  • Kills people Stalin were afraid would disobey him
• Strengthen the USSR "CIA"
• Created a cult of personality
  • Propaganda
    • Statues 
    • posters
• Collective Farms
  • Taking farms away
    • Many people would work
    • Get paid a wage 
    • don't get to sell your crop it goes to the government
• Industrialization
  • 5 year plan
    • increase technology within 5 years
• Polocies
  • Ukraine
    • Known for farmland
    • people weren't allowed to farm due to his policy
      • Famine killed many Ukrainians
      • Considered a Genicide

-Discuss basic facts: alliance, total casualties, total cost, war goals, etc

Causalities 

• Military
  • 8,668,000 to 10,922,000 
• People
  • 720,000

-Tell us about their leader(s) during WWII

•  Joseph Stalin
  • Dictator
  • Communist
  • Potential enemy's were sent to labor camps
  • De-Stalinization process
    • People tried to take back the soviet Union
    • Took down statues 

-Discuss the impact of their Home front and propaganda and what it was like in their country during the war

Propaganda

• Used propaganda to unite countries against Germany

Moved East

• Everybody moved east
  • Soviet Union was being attacked from the west
• Everyone Started over

-Discuss major battle strategies

• Soviet Union Strategies
  • Trench War
  • Road Blocks
  • Tank Raids

-Discuss major battles that the country was involved in

• Operation of Barbarossa
  • German invasion of the Soviet Union
• Battle of Stalingrad
  • Soviet Union 
    • over a million causalities
  • Germany 
    • 920,000 causalities
    • Goal to push east
• Battle of Moscow
  • Soviet Union
    • Prepared for the attack
    • Prepared for winter
  • Germany 
    • Not prepared for winter
• Battle of Leningrad
  • 900 day war
  • Both sides had food shortages
• Battle of Berlin
  • Soviet Union attacked Germany
  • After Hitler had killed himself

-Discuss other people/generals from their country in WWII that had a major impact on the war'

Georgy Zhukov

• The man who never lost a battle
• Very powerful
  • Was demoted by Stalin for being to powerful'

Vyacheslav Molotov

• Foreign Minister 
• Helped with pact between Germany and Russia

Ivan Konev

• Commander of the western front
  • Defense failed 
• Stalin tried to execute him for failing 

Nikita Khrushchev

• Stalin's successor 

-Discuss why they won or lost the war

-Discuss the impact WWII had on the country

• Destroyed many big cities
• Set up communism in 
  • Russia 
  • Hungary 
  • Poland
  • ect.
• Started a leading world power.

France 

• Invaded by Germany
  • Blitzkrieg

Between WWI-WWII

• Signed 
  • Pacts 
    • 4
    • 5
    • 9
    • Kellogg
• France
  • Set up huge cement Fortification
  • Germany went around it through Belgium
  • Wall rendered useless
• Government
  • Free French Underground
    • A resistance wanting to fight back
    • Allies with the US
    • Leader
      • Charles De Gaulle
  • Vichy Government 
    • Helped Germany
    • Leader
      • Marshall Petain