Monday- continued powerpoint
- How did the world react to the Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact?
- Shock
- Poland was stuck "between a rock and a hard place"
- Hitler thought it would force Great Britain and France to back out of their promise to help Poland if attacked
- Bliztkrieg(lightning war)
- Air force attacks enemy front-line and rear position, main roads, airfields and communication centers. At the same time, infantry attcks on the entire frontline and engages enemy.
- Tank units breakthrough main lines of defense and advance dieper into enemy territroy,
- Infantry attacks enemy flanks in order to link up with other groups to complete the atack and eventually encirlce the enemy.
- Mechanized groups go deeper into the enemy territory outflanking the enemy positsions and preventing withdrawing troops and defenders form establishing effective defensive positions.
- Main force links up with other units encircling and cutting off the enemy
- Goal was to achieve victory as quickly as possible.
Tuesday- continued powerpoint
Nazi Goals for Battle of Britain
- Destroy the Royal Air Force(before invasion was possible-hopefully by 9-15)
- Attack and destroy the British Navy
- Attack British troops
- Once air control was gained, the invasion of Great Britain would begin
**Germany never succeeded in achieving #1
**German bombers did so poorly against the RAF that they started bombing at night only
**Great Britain was aided heavily by the radar and Ultra
- Results
- In May, 1941, Germany decided to focus on attacking British ships and ports and thus stopped attacking cities
- British losses-around 40,000 civilians dead
- 46,000- 139,000 injured
- German losses-3,363 aircrew and 2,265 aircraft
- Britain won by the fact that Germany did not achieve their goals
Wednesday- continued powerpoint
- German Invasion of USSR- June, 1941
- Final Plan for Operation Barbarossa- largest land invasion in history
- Scorched Earth Policy
- Stalin demanded this of the Soviet troops as they retreated
- They would burn everything so that the Germans had no food and other resources
- Battle for Moscow
- The Soviet Winter Counteroffensive December 6, 1941- April 30, 1942
- The Russian winter sets in and makes a huge turning point in the war
- The Battle of Stalingrad- Results
- More than 1,830,000 killed or wounded
- More than 11,400 casualties each day
- The biggest defeat in the history of the German Army
- The turning point not only on the Eastern Front, but also the turning point of the whole of WW11
- Siege of Leningrad
- On August 30th 1941, the Germans took over Leningrad's railroads, cutting them of from the rest of Russia and the world
- Unlike the Battle of Stalingrad, the Germans surrounded the city to starve the city into submission
- Between November 1941 and October 1942, 641,000 people died of starvation
- People resorted to eating rats, wallpaper paste and some resorted to cannibalism
- A successful Russian counter-offensive at Stalingrad forced the Germans to move troops there and eventually, the siege failed
- The Germans never took Leningrad, but it was one of the most costly conflicts Russia had ever faced-over one million died
- Operation Torch- November, 1942
- US and British forces invade North Africa
- By May, 1943, Axis forces surrendered in North Africa
- The campaign would now shift to the islands in the Mediterranean Sea and Italy
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