Overview of WW2

1. Blitzkrieg on Poland-Sept 1939 2. Phoney War-

Winter 1939-40

3. Invasion of France-May/June 1940(Dunkirk-

Operation Dynamo)

4. Fall of France-Mussolini joins war

5. Battle of Britain-Aug/Sept

1940

6. Blitz-1940-41

7. Operation Barbarossa-1941

8. Battle of Stalingrad-1942-43

9. Pearl Harbour-Dec 1941

10 War in North Africa-1940-43

11. Operation Overlord (D-Day)-

6th June 1944

12. Battle of the Bulge-Dec 1944

13. Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Atomic Bomb)-Aug 1945

Dictatorship & Democracy 1920-1945

The Grand Alliance & The Turning Tide

World War 2: 1941-1944

The Grand Alliance

The Unites Kingdom

Winston Churchill

The United States

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Soviet Union

Joseph Stalin

Why was this Grand

Alliance so crucial to

defeating Hitler’s

Germany?

‘The Special Relationship’ Roosevelt wants to enter the War

American public against it. Why?

Lend-Lease is the half-way house

Roosevelt:Suppose my neighbor's home catches fire, and I have a length of garden hose four or five hundred feet away. If he can take my garden hose and connect it up with his hydrant, I may help him to put out his fire. Now, what do I do? I don't say to him before that operation, "Neighbor, my garden hose cost me $15; you have to pay me $15 for it." What is the transaction that goes on? I don't want $15--I want my garden hose back after the fire is over. All right. If it goes through the fire all right, intact, without any damage to it, he gives it back to me and thanks me very much for the use of it. But suppose it gets smashed up--holes in it--during the fire; we don't have to have too much formality about it, but I say to him, "I was glad to lend you that hose; I see I can't use it any more, it's all smashed up." He says, "How many feet of it were there?" I tell him, "There were 150 feet of it." He says, "All right, I will replace it." Now, if I get a nice garden hose back, I am in pretty good shape.

If your neighbour’s house is on fire,

you don’t haggle over the price of

the garden hose

Pearl Harbour

Japanese Home IslandsChina

Korea

New Guinea

Hawaii & Pearl Harbour

Indo-China

Siam

Burma

Manchuria

Solomon IslandsDutch East Indies

`Malaya

Philippines

The Japanese Empire1942

Attack on Pearl Harbour• 6 battleships sunk• 3,500+ U.S. casualties• N.B. Carrier’s out of port

– None damaged

“A day that will live in infamy…”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqQAf74fsE

Effects…

‘Europe first’

Close co-ordination of…

Military resources

C&C

Intelligence

Resources – fuel, energy etc.

Roosevelt & Churchill

Uncle Joe

How was the

relationship

between Stalin

& the others

different?

The Allies…

Invasion of France…?

Invasion of Greece…?

Invasion of Sicily…?

North Africa…?

South-East Asia…?

The Eastern Front…?

Which was the most severe…?

Tehran Conference

What was decided?

Turning Points…. Stalingrad

Germans restart stalled eastern offensive

What’s their goal in attacking Stalingrad?

Rattenkrieg

What happened?

Zhukov launched huge counterattack: Operation Uranus

German 6th Army Encircled in the city

Winter Arrives – temp = c. -30˚

German’s attempt resupply by air – fails

Hitler refuses to allow breakout attempt

Paulus finally surrenders in Feb 1943

Why was this such a significant turning

point in the war?

Numbers…

150,000

13,500

400,000

750,000

5,500,000

10,000,000

30,000,000

Soviet soldiers sentenced to death…

Executed at Battle of Stalingrad

Penal battalions strength

Total NKVD strength

Axis forces committed to Barbarossa

Total USSR casualties in the war

Total number of men conscripted by the

USSR in WW2

Turning Points…. El Alamein

"Before Alamein we never

had a victory, after Alamein

we never had a defeat."

1943 – The Tide is Turned

Battle of the Atlantic

Codebreakers

North Africa

Invasion of Sicily & Italy

Surrender of Italy

Battle of Kursk

Kiev Retaken

……..

Theatres of War…Europe in 1943

Into 1944…

Allies…

Moving forward by land

Command of the Sea

Control of the Skies