Transcript Hitler*s War - Bonita High School

SWBAT: Identify Hitler’s early victories against the Allies.
Hitler’s War
SIN #41
German Early victories
• After easily taking Poland in 26 days, Hitler
waited out the winter (phony war)
• Spring 1940 Germany took Denmark, Norway,
Netherlands, Belgium and set eyes on France
• Germans went around the Maginot Lineconcrete, heavily guarded border between France
and Germany- and trapped French army
• British army forced to evacuate and France
surrendered on June 22 (Miracle at Dunkirk)
Germany controls France
• Under German occupation, set up a
authoritarian government (Vichy France) led
by Marshal Henri Petain- WWI French hero
• Germany now had control of all western and
central Europe, except…
Battle of Britain
• Britain new prime minister, Winston Churchill,
vowed to fight Hitler til the bitter end…
Read don’t write
“We shall defend our island
Whatever the cost may be.
We shall fight on the beaches.
We shall fight on the landing grounds.
We shall fight on the fields and in the streets.
We shall fight on the hills.
We will never surrender!”
• With Britain refusing to negotiate, Hitler
realized success would be determined by air
victory
• Aug 1940 Germany launched the LuftwaffeGerman air force- and bombed British cities
for 76 consecutive nights
• With the help of radar, British were able to hide
planes and rebuild their air force quickly
• By Sept, British were inflicting casualties on
Germany and Hitler postponed the invasion of
Britain indefinitely (ended in a tie)
Operation Barbarossa
• Hitler’s name for invasion of Soviet
Union in June 1941
• Hitler’s motivations:
1. secure Lebensraum and natural
resources
2. hatred of Bolsheviks
3. eliminate Europe’s largest
Jewish population
What is the
message of
the cartoon?
• By Aug blitzkrieg was successful in forcing Red
Army back 500 miles
• Again Red Army used scorched earth policy
• But Russian winter set in, Germany army
unprepared and forced to stop invasion
Battle of Stalingrad
• Nov – Feb 1943 Russians finally won their first
victory against the Germans!!!
• Considered the most terrible/bloodiest battle
of the war in Europe.
• The entire German Sixth Army, considered the
best troops, were lost.
• After defeat, Hitler realized he could NOT
defeat the Soviet Union
The Numbers…
Battle of Stalingrad:
*500,000-850,000 by Axis overall in fighting Soviets
*the Red Army suffered a total of 1,129,619 total
casualties
Battle of Britain:
*totaled 43,381 killed and 50,856 injured British
civilians
*Casualties of the German aircrew were 3,363 KIA,
2,117 WIA and 2,641 taken prisoner
Homework #41 cont.
• Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact doc analysis
(front and back sides)
• Due Monday
Interactive map video
http://www.the-map-as-history.com/demos/tome08/03world_war_II_1941_1942_demo.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyY5AHqiTm4 battle of britain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIh6j80mFqM battle of Britain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euRlmTHpSCI battle of britain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyY5AHqiTm4 us Britain battle (use this one)
WWII in color part 1
- France 1940 invasion of france
- Britain 1940- battle of britain
- Bavaria 1941 invasion of SU