Transcript Eastern Front

Hitler’s Lightning War – Part II
What other parts of the world does
the war expand to?
North Africa Campaign
• Sept 1940: Mussolini attacks Egypt, wants British Suez Canal
• Feb 1941: British strike back and take over 130,000 Italian prisoners
• Mar 1941: Hitler sends his best general Erwin Rommel to N. Africa
• Rommel pushes Gen. Bernard Montgomery & his troops into Libya
•Jan 1942: Monty’s troops
counterattack & push back Rommel
•June 1942: Rommel pushes the
British back again, earning him the
nickname “Desert Fox”
•As fighting is going on in Britain &
Africa, other German generals are
focusing on the Soviet Union
“Desert Fox” vs. “Monty”
The Mediterranean & Eastern Front
• Stalin has buffer zones in the north
• Germany must attack Soviets from south, need the Balkans
• Jan 1941:Hitler gets Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania to join Axis powers
• April 1941:Greece & Yugoslavia resist, Germany blitzkriegs them
• Once Hitler controls the Balkans, Operation Barbarossa begins
•June 1941: Hitler begins a
blitzkrieg invasion of the Soviet
Union
•Germans push 500 miles into
the Soviet Union
•Sept: Germany opens a 2nd
front, invading Leningrad
VS
•Soviets win at Leningrad
•Oct: Hitler orders his troops to
attack the Moscow
•Soviets counterattack as the
cold Russian winter sets in
Map Time!
Battle of Britain
Battle of
Leningrad
Battle of Dunkirk
N. Africa
Campaign
Put purple “x”s in 15, 22, 23
Stripe 19 & 21 in purple
Color Allies in key blue, Great Britain blue
Mark the above battles on your map
Other Countries During WWII:
Spain: Neutral due to civil war between Francisco Franco & Parliament
United States: Neutral
• President Roosevelt (FDR) starts Lend-Lease program, “lending”
supplies to the British
• FDR & Churchill sign Atlantic Charter – post war plans for Europe