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World War II

World War II. 3 rd Year History. Invasion of Poland. SS dressed up 29th of August 1st September GB and France declare war. Blitzkrieg Luftwaffe, then Panzers then motorised infantry. Poland defeated in 5 weeks. Phoney War >Denmark and Norway. Fighting on sea only until….

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World War II

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  1. World War II 3rd Year History

  2. Invasion of Poland • SS dressed up 29th of August • 1st September GB and France declare war. • Blitzkrieg • Luftwaffe, then Panzers then motorised infantry. Poland defeated in 5 weeks.

  3. Phoney War >Denmark and Norway • Fighting on sea only until…. • Spring 1940 Denmark defeated by Germans in a day. • Norway invaded to protect neutral Sweden’s iron ore getting to Germany. • Quisling installed as nazi puppet in Norway.

  4. France • Wrong to think the Ardennes would send the Germans through Belgium (Maginot Line). • Dunkirk 300,000: British and French troops evacuated in ‘Operation Dynamo’ • France surrendered in the same railway carriage as Germans had. • Vichy France and Occupied France. • Resistance movement.

  5. Operation Sea Lion and The Battle of Britain • German plan = • Sea Lion • Churchill ‘We shall never surrender’. • RAF Spitfire and Hurricanes and Radar Vs Luftwaffe. • The Blitz: Civilian cities targeted allows RAF recover.

  6. North Africa • Libyan Oil crucial to war. • Italy incompetent. • Rommel’s Afrika corp successful at first. • Montgomery and El Alamein a turning point.

  7. Operation Barbarossa • June 1941: 3 pronged attack on Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev. • Russian retreat. Scorched earth policy. • Stalin’s ‘Great Patriotic War’ • German troops and machines not able for Russian winter. • Stalingrad (control of Caucasus oil fields) big turning point.

  8. USA Joins the War • USA had supplied food and weapons to GB. Allied convoys had tried to fend off U-Boat ‘Wolfpacks’. • Japan’s Empire. • Dec 1941 Pearl Harbour. US navy lucky as only 18 ships sunk. • Eventually Alllied ships, weapons (depth charges), sonar, code-breaking and air reconnaissance won.

  9. Allied Bombing& Allied Advance 1942-1945 • US Flying Fortresses and GB Lancasters bombed German cities and factories. • German retaliation with V1 and V2. • GB and US troops up through Italy. • Russians push Germans back. • Battle of the Kursk (biggest tank battle)

  10. Operation Overlord (D-Day) • D-Day 6 June 1944 Normandy (shallow) Utah, Omaha, Juno, Gold and Sword. • Mulberry Harbours. Gliders and parachutes. • Pluto the pipeline. • Battle of the Bulge • Hitler’s suicide and VE day 15th August 1945

  11. Defeat of Japan • US helped by Austalia and GB. • Island hopping. Aircraft carriers. Kamakazi. • Battles of Midway, Coral Sea and Iwo Jima. • Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  12. Why the Allies Won • Bigger armies • USA wealth and weapons ‘the arsenal of democracy’ • Oil

  13. Results of WW2 • Destruction (Marshall Aid) • Nuremberg trials • Germany divided • Cold War • Super powers • European Unity

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