Transcript Axis Powers Peak PPOINT #3

• Chronicle the advancements of the Axis
Powers until they reach their territorial peak
in 1942
• From ______ to ______
• Axis Powers
– Germany (Hitler)
– Italy (Mussolini)
– Japan (Tojo)
• Allied Powers
– GB (Churchill)
– USSR (Stalin)
– France (DeGaulle)
– USA (FDR/Truman)
– China (Kai-shek)
• Lightning war…FAST ATTACK
• What is used in it?
– Air attack 1st
– Tanks (Panzer units)
– Soldiers
• Goal = loop around enemy. Many casualties and POWs
• Poland and Czech 3 and 3
a. “Phony
War”
b. April 1940,
Denmark &
Norway
– Vidkun
Quisling
a. “Phony
War”
b. April 1940,
Denmark &
Norway
– Vidkun
Quisling
c. May 1940,
takes
Belgium &
Netherlands
• Hitler attacks
through north
• 300K French
and British
troops
– Miracle of
Dunkirk
• June, Italy
attacks
through south
and all of
France is
taken over
• Germany
parades through
Paris...finally
• France is
split
(map)
• Charles
DeGaulle
in Great
Britain in
exile
• Hitler 1st
offers peace
to GB
– Churchill
rejects it
• July 1940
Germany
bombs
Great
Britain
• “We shall
never
surrender”
speech (YT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTw3_PmKtc&feature=related
• GB beats
Germany…how?
• Battle in skies…
– Luftwaffe (HG) vs
Royal Air Force
• RAF has a secret
weapon!!
• About
23K
civilians
killed in
GB
• German
bad intell
• Germans
did not hit
as many
military
targets as
they
should
have
• If the Almighty were
to rebuild the world
and asked me for
advice, I would
have English
Channels round
every country. And
the atmosphere
would be such that
anything which
attempted to fly
would be set on
fire.” (Manno)
• WC’s Mind
• WC and FDR
• English Naval order
• Drunk at party
• Who
couldn’t
get the job
done?
• General
Erwin
Rommel
takes
Africa
• What
should
Hitler try to
take?
• Hitler
wants…
• Why?
– Defeat
inferior
Slavs &
Jews
– Resources
– Lebensraum
for Aryans
• Hitler
delayed until
Summer!!
• Mussolini
needs help
taking
Greece &
Yugo
– Hitler has to
help Benny
– Hitler takes
Yugo &
Greece
• Bad Spring
Rains in 1941
• Operation Barbarossa
(Red Beard) = Invasion
of USSR
• Largest Land Battles
of WW2
• Largest Land invasion
ever designed
– 4 million Axis troops
• "When Barbarossa
commences, the world
will hold its breath and
make no comment.“ AH
• Hitler = micromanager 
• Goes well at first
(Stupid Stalin)
• Fall to Winter 1941,
the plan fails
– Hitler vs Generals
– Roads and Rain
– Plan not big enough
– Give Stalin credit…
• Winter 1941 comes…
– Just short of Moscow…
– Tanks can’t start
• Allies will now
have a series
of victories to
collapse the
Axis Powers
• Two wise
men,
Churchill and
FDR will let
their
Generals
work
• Stalin
becomes
wise and lets
his Generals
work
• Axis
Powers are
at their
peak
• They have
stalled too!!
– Africa
– USSR
– GB
– Not yet with
USA
• USA and
USSR will
turn the war
around