Transcript Hitler`s Lightening War – Mediterranean & Eastern

Hitler’s Lightning War – Part II
What do the Germans do in
Africa, Southern Europe and the
Soviet Union?
Northern Africa Campaign
• Sept 1940: Mussolini attacks Egypt, wants the British controlled 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 British troops into Libya
•Jan 1942: Monty’s British troops
counterattack & push back Rommel
•June 1942: Rommel pushes the British
back again, earning him the nickname
“Desert Fox”
•While the fighting is going on in Britain
& Africa, other German generals are
focusing on the Soviet Union
“Desert Fox” vs. “Monty”
The Mediterranean & Eastern Front
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Stalin’s prior invasions set up buffer zones in the north & west
Germany has to attack Soviet Union from the south, need to take the Balkans
Jan 1941: Hitler gets Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania to join the Axis powers
April 1941: Greece & Yugoslavia resist, Germany blitzkriegs those countries
Now that Hitler controls the Balkans, he starts Operation Barbarossa
•June 1941: Hitler begins a
blitzkrieg invasion of the Soviet
Union
•Germans push 500 miles into the
Soviet Union
•Sept: Germany opens a second
front, invading Leningrad (north)
VS
•Soviets hold Germans in Leningrad
•Oct: Hitler orders his troops to
attack the capital city of 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
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