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The First Year Of The War
• Hitler set off the war by attacking Poland
(Sept. 1, 1939)
• The Soviet Union took over many
countries in Eastern Europe
• The Maginot Line proved to be a failure
• Mussolini and Hitler conquered France
(mid 1940)
• The only allied threat that remained in all
of Europe was Britain
You say
that like
the war is
over.
Well,
that was
a cute
war.(:
Yup.
I think I’ll
finish off
the allies.
“Today
Germany,
tomorrow
the world”
eh?
I’m cooler
than
history.
But, history
has proven
that Britain
can’t be
attacked.
Well,
Napoleon
didn’t have
tons of
bombs!
Napoleon
had
trouble
when he
tried…
The Battle of Britain
• In the summer of 1940, Hitler began his
attack on Great Britain (Operation Sea
Lion)
• He planned to destroy the Royal Air Force
and then land troops on the shores
• The German air force, or Luftwaffe, began
bombing airfields and aircraft factories
Hey Hitler.
We keep on
bombing
their airfields,
but the
British won’t
surrender.
Then we
bomb the
civilians until
they are so
tired of war
that they
demand
their
government
surrender.
The Battle of Britain
• September 7, 1940 – The Luftwaffe began
targeting cities to break English morale
• People hide in the subways and
homemade bomb shelters
• The children are sent to the countryside
• The British people rally around their new
prime minister, Winston Churchill
Remember me?
Neville Chamberlain,
the appeasement
guy? Well, needless
to say, my policies
were disasteriffic.
And when things start
getting really bad, I
am kicked out of
office and replaced
by one of my cabinet
members…
“We shall fight on
the beaches, we
shall fight on the
landing grounds,
we shall fight in the
fields and in the
streets… we shall
never surrender.”
The Battle of Britain
• With the pressure off the airfields, the RAF
hit back hard
The Battle of Britain
• With the pressure off the airfields, the RAF
hit back hard
• Their advantage was the development of a
tracking system known as radar
The Battle of Britain
• With the pressure off the airfields, the RAF
hit back hard
• Their advantage was the development of a
tracking system known as RADAR
• Their secret weapon was an Enigma code
machine that had been smuggled into
Great Britain in 1938
I’ll get you
next time,
Britain.
NEXT
TIME!!!!
The Battle of Britain
• The battle ended on May 10, 1941
• The bombings had lasted for nine months
• Bored from British resistance, Hitler
decided to turn his attention elsewhere