World War II

1. World War II

2. European Theatre

3. The Maginot & Schlieffen Plan Revisited

4. Rescue At Dunkirk6/4/40 Operation Dynamo

6. Miracle of Dunkirk Evacuated over 300,000 Soldiers

7. France Falls

8. Vichy France & Henri Petain

9. French Resistance, Charles de Gaulle & the Maquis

10. Battle of BritainOperation Sea Lion

11. The Tube

12. The RAF

15. Enigma • Used for decoding German Messages • Allowed Brits to prepare for aerial assaults

16. The Atlantic Charter • FDR & Churchill • Treaty of friendship • Compared to 14 Points • Called for a type of League of Nations

17. US Lend-Lease Act ‘41 Great Britain.........................$31 billionSoviet Union..........................$11 billionFrance..................................$3 billionChina..................................$1.5 billionOther European......................$500 millionSouth America.......................$400 millionThe amount totaled: $48,601,365,000

19. Operation BarbarossaAnd History Repeated Itself!

20. Did Stalin See This Coming?

21. Operation Barbarossa • Hitler always stated he hated the Russians • War inevitable • Russians = subhuman • Hated communists • Soviet-Nazi Pact ’39: last only 10 yrs.

22. Operation Barbarossa • Largest land invasion in history • Blitzkrieg • Attack should concentrate on Moscow • 2 smaller armies attack Leningrad and Stalingrad; then these 2 armies would attack Moscow • Hitler switched plan and had 3 equal forces attack all 3 cities

23. 3 million German soldiers 3580 tanks 1830 planes 7184 artillery guns Wow! Operation Barbarossa

24. StalingradJuly ’42 – Feb ‘43 • Modern day Volgograd • Bloodiest battle in modern history • 2 million casualties • Seige of Stalingrad (Listen to the Primary resource!) • Nazis bogged down in fighting from house to house • Counter-offensive: trapped and destroyed German army; 1st substantial defeat of Germany! Turning point of war?

25. Blitzkrieg: Desire to control oil fields in Transcaucasia Destroy the major industrial city on Volga Sever transportation route of resources to the north Embarrass Stalin: bore the name of USSR’s leader! Eastern Front: Stalingrad

28. Held ground from Sep-Nov’42 Mounted an anti-tank rifle (PTRS-41) on roof; legend states Pavlov destroying over a dozen tanks Communications trench from basement Symbol of stubborn resistance Video Games reenact this! Pavlov’s House

29. Stalingrad 12/42: Volga only 100 yards away; no place for retreat; 62nd Soviet army entrenched itself on the river; the last death fight

31. Stalingrad ‘43

32. El AlameinRommel “Desert Fox” v. Montgomery “Monty”

34. Italian CampaignOperation Torch • Europe’s Soft Underbelly • Allied assault 11/42-5/43 • Gen. Patton • Germans trapped in Tunisia – surrender 275000+

35. Battle for SicilyJune ‘43

36. Allies Liberate RomeJune 5, 1944

37. Operation Overlord

38. D-DayJune 6, 1944

39. Normandy Landing Higgins Landing Craft

40. http://Stealth Paratroopers Drop In!

41. Battle of the Bulge

42. VE Day

43. Pacific Theatre

44. Manchukuo

45. Rape of Nanjing

46. Pearl Harbor

47. Dugout Doug

48. Bataan

49. Guadalcanal

50. Midway