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Dunkirk: Triumph or disaster?

Dunkirk: Triumph or disaster?. LO: To decide whether Dunkirk was a success or failure. . Hitler’s invading tactic was called BLITZKRIEG. It is German for “lightning war”. Why do you think it had that name? How do you think these three pictures are linked?. Blitzkrieg

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Dunkirk: Triumph or disaster?

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  1. Dunkirk: Triumph or disaster? LO: To decide whether Dunkirk was a success or failure.

  2. Hitler’s invading tactic was called BLITZKRIEG. It is German for “lightning war”. Why do you think it had that name? • How do you think these three pictures are linked?

  3. Blitzkrieg The aim was to hit a place hard then move on straight away, and it aimed to create chaos among people who lived in the towns • Stuka dive bombers “softened” a town up • Panzer tanks rolled in and cleaned up the rest • People caused havoc as they fled to the next town along…but the Germans were on their way!

  4. Britain and France defeated… • Using Blitzkrieg, or “Lightning War”, Germany defeated France in just 6 weeks! • This meant all French and British troops were pushed back to the beaches at Dunkirk • What now???

  5. Look at the sources p.158-9 • Make the table below:

  6. What did Britain do? • Britain sent 860 boats to rescue both British and French men. This included big Navy ships and also “little boats” – trawlers, fishing boats, lifeboats, sailed by civilians. In nine days 338,226 men had been rescued. It was the biggest evacuation ever. • What do you think made Dunkirk a triumph (a success)? • What do you think the leaders at home said about Dunkirk? Would they say it was a disaster or triumph? Why?

  7. Churchill was trying to lift the nation, after the fall of Britain’s Ally France to Germany

  8. Homework: Imagine you are a reporter in Britain • Using your table you are going to create a biased newspaper front page story about Dunkirk, with a picture to illustrate it. You can tell the story either from a British point of view or a German point of view • E.g. DISASTER IN DUNKIRK! • Or BRITISH SPIRIT WINS AGAIN!

  9. Plenary • What do we think: triumph or disaster?

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