The first thing we did was mr bruns showed us some of the battles that happend in WWII. After that we started talking about the powerpoint.
The battle of the Atlantic
-Speed could help escape from Uboats
-in france and the US there were Uboat detecting stations
-the convoy system was another way to defend against Uboats
Allied Inteligence
-Churchill and Roosevelt knew that Intel was important to defeat axis powers
-HF/DF was used to lacate the sources of enemy radio transmissions such as submarines
-the process of decifering code to see what the enemy was going to do was called "magic"
Anigma
-system in which germany trasferred transferred thier information through codes
-a machine that would turn German plans into code
-the US eventually dicifered this anigma code
-Durring Periods when Allied cryptanalysts were unable to solve the enigma code, the german Uboats would cause great damage
-the Bombe was the machine that dicifered enigma
Fighting on waters
-they would use dept charges to combat Uboats
-the grummen TBF was used to air attack Uboats
Europe in Summer 1941
-finland became an allie with Germany
-why did hitler invade soviet Union
-Lebensraum
-Dispised the ethnic Slavs ruled by thier"jewish Bolshevik" masters
-Wanted Ukraine for teh Farmland
-Could use the people as slave labor
-the defeat of the USSR would further isolate the Allies
-wanted oil fields in cuacus mountians
-Didnt trust stalin, and propoganda siad that Stalin was goint to attack Germany
Operation Barbarossa
-greatest land war ever recorded
-the main front would evenutally expand to 1490 miles and 600 miles deep
-the soviet union marched the best of the German Army amounting to three quiarters of its field strength
-by the end of the year there were many captive and dead soviets
-at one time Germans owned 900,000 square miles of the Soveit union
-German Wehermacht
-Germany in USSR was split
-Amry group had three main goals and they were leningrad, stalingrad, and Moscow
-Battle of Stalingrad
-germans had 90% of the city
-this was happening a year after the start of the battle
-then the Soviets started to push back
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