Transcript britain - The-Historic

The military
strategies
employed.
http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=OD1gWA9Rt
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Good foundation
 Mobilised economy
 Armies
Single army command
(Might is combined)
 Element of surprise!
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Large ships
 use to counter Germany’s attack
(operation Rheinbung)
 Midget submarines
 Code breaking
 Quick defense strategies
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Defending multiple areas
 Smart investments of money
 Propaganda (: (: (:
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The military
strategies
employed.
Barbarossa
BLITZKREIG
Operation
Blue
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The first version of the plan was to have a
massive attack on Moscow – his primary
target. He also wanted a secondary attack
on Kiev and two masking attacks in the
Baltic towards Leningrad and in Moldavia in
the south.
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For the next version of the plan, he changed
Marcks plan by having three thrusts; a major
one against Moscow, a smaller attack on
Kiev and a major attack on Leningrad. After
taking Moscow and Leningrad, Halder
wanted a move north to Archangel. After
Kiev had fallen, he envisaged a drive into
the Don/Volga region.
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The third and final variant was Hitler’s plan
which he codenamed Barbarossa.
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STRENGTH: The
only weapon
that stopped
the blitzkrieg of
Germany was
the very severe
Russian winter.
German and
Hitler’s blitzkrieg
military
strategies were
considered to
be one of the
most successful
military tactics
ever implanted
in the history of
warfare.
Operation blue
Hitler drove east at the beginning of May
 Thrust was dynamic
 EFFECTIVENESS: 170,000 Russians taken
prisoner in the first week
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Modern technology
 Cutting enemy’s supplies off
 Using good strategies from others
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Operation Rheinubung
AIMS:
break into the Atlantic and attack Allied
shipping, Was mainly not to defeat
enemies of equal strength, but to tie
them down in a delaying action, while
preserving her combat capacity as
much as possible, so as to allow more
ships to get at the merchant ships in the
convoy.
Superior weaponary
 Modern design and technology
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GERMANY
BRITAIN
Had well-planned strategies
 Increased war production
 Well-prepared
 Modern technology
 Propaganda
 Fast thinking
Had well-planned strategies
 Increased war production
 Well-prepared
 Modern technology
 Propaganda
 Fast thinking
Used the latest and newest model for
weapons
 Depended on heavy weapons
 War efforts at the expense of others
GERMANY
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BRITAIN
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Used weapons that were not very fast
Depended on wit
War efforts were voluntary
WE USED WIKIPEDIA TOO :D
AND BOOKS
BOOKS:
 Stewart Ross
The second world war
 Karen Farrington:
The soldier’s war
War at sea
War for the air
 War Diaries
THANK YOU!
Comments
Good info given, although section on Germany is much
meatier than that on Britain. You looked at German
military campaigns, but have left out British ones.
 Comparison can be made more effective if you can
come up with a key concluding statement which can
summarise the essence.
 E.g. Germany initially had more superior strategies
(Blitzkrieg) and military technology; but the British had
superior intelligence which was able to decode the
German code, and to counter the threat posed by
Blitzkrieg, as well as the superior strategy of using the airforce to compliment naval operations. Therefore the British
were ultimately able to defeat/out-wit the Germans.
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