Today Mr. Bruns continued talking about our informations for the second part of the WWII test.
U-Boat Attacks
- We would build ships that are faster and better
- Our ships could out run the U-Boats
- There were transmitting centers in France that would communicate with the U-Boats
- We intercepted the radio and listened in to find where the U-Boats were
- Instead of using just one ship we traveled with many boats so that it was almost impossible for them to attack all our ships
- There was a lot of technology used to go after U-Boats and destroy them
- Depth Charges were a type of bomb that would be forced under water and sink a U-Boat
Allied Intelligence
- We were able to intercept and break their code
- The US and GB shared info from newly developed technologies liike RADAR and High Frequency Radio Direction Finding
- Working together Brithis and American trackers used special intelligence to locate Axis forces with exxtreme precision
- Leaders began sharing code-breaking secrets, known as very special intelligence and classified under c over- names like ULTRA and MAGIC
Enigma
- This was a system Germany used to transfer their info through codes
- Solving this system remains one of the great Alliedd triumphs of WWII
- During periods when Allied cryptanalysts were unable to solve Enigma, U-Bots caused great damage to Anglo-American commerce
- The Enigma machine looked similar to a typewriter
- The code letters looked like nothing and didn't even look like actual words
- The bombe is a machine that they used to transmit the code
Hitler's Invasion on the Soviet Union
- Hitler despised the ethnic Slavs that were ruled by their "Jewish Bolshevik" masters
- He wanted Ukraine for the farmland
- He could use the people as slave labor
- The defeat of the USSR would farther isolate the Allies
- He wanted the oilfields i nthe Caucasus mountains
- Hitler didn't trust Stalin-German propoganda showed that Stalin was planning to attack Germany
- The Western Front fighting was over (except Great Britian)
Operation Barbarossa
- The greatest land war in recorded history
- Started at 3:30 am on June 22, 1941
- The main front woiuld eventually expand to 1490 miles and extend to a depth of over 600 miles
- Soviet union marched the best of the German Army
- By the end of the year 3,500,000 Red Army soldiers were in captivity and 4,000,000 had died in battle
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