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Let's Vote!. It is time to elect a world leader and your vote counts. Here are the 3 candidates!. Had 2 mistresses. Candidate #1. Associates with crooked politicians. Consults with astrologists. Drinks 8-10 martinis a day. Chain smokes. Sleeps until noon. Candidate #2.
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Let's Vote! It is time to elect a world leader and your vote counts. Here are the 3 candidates!
Had 2 mistresses Candidate #1 Associates with crooked politicians Consults with astrologists Drinks 8-10 martinis a day Chain smokes
Sleeps until noon Candidate #2 Kicked out of office twice Drinks a quart of whisky every morning Used opium in college
Doesn’t smoke Candidate #3 Never has had an extramarital affair Vegetarian Drinks an occasional beer Decorated war hero
Candidate 1: FDR Candidate 2: = Winston Churchill Candidate 3:Adolf Hitler
Switzerland & Spain (neutral) Italy takes Albania Czech., Austria, & E. Prussia controlled by Germany Pre-WWII
Sept. 1, 1939: blitzkrieg of Poland begins GB & France declare war on Germany
April 9, ‘40: Hitler invades Denmark & Norway Takes Denmark in 1 day & Norway in 2
How so fast? German “lightning war” (Blitzkreig) German air force (Luftwaffe)
The Maginot Line French defense designed to stop any German attack across border
2 mil French soldiers France well defended for WWI warfare, not German blitzkrieg Phoney War?
Profile of the Maginot Line
Uh-Oh... Germans go through neutral Belgium instead of facing Maginot Line
GB France Dunkirk
Pinned between Germans & English Channel GB France French & British trapped here by Germans
It's a Miracle English citizens use private fishing boats to rescue troops!
“I only need a few thousand dead so that I can sit at the peace conference as a man who has fought." Italy declares war & attacks France from South
France Surrenders June 22, ‘40
Hitler takes Greece (24 days) & Yugoslavia (11 days) More Acquisitions 1941
Bulgaria, Rumania, & Hungary ally with Germany by end of ’41
NEXT? N A A N A N N N = Neutral A = Ally
Battle of Britain Hitler begins bombing raids on GB Britain’s RAFmore skilled than Hitler’s Luftwaffe
Royal Air Force Only 700 fighters & 1400 pilots!
Damage to British cities (civilians) is high But GB won!!
Significance? GB was saved from Nazis!
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few New Prime Minister of GB Winston Churchill