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WORLD WAR II 3 rd Year History. Invasion of Poland SS dressed up 29th of August 1st September GB and France declare war. Blitzkrieg Luftwaffe, then Panzers.

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1 WORLD WAR II 3 rd Year History

2 Invasion of Poland SS dressed up 29th of August 1st September GB and France declare war. Blitzkrieg Luftwaffe, then Panzers then motorised infantry. Poland defeated in 5 weeks.

3 Phoney War >Denmark and Norway Fighting on sea only until…. Spring 1940 Denmark defeated by Germans in a day. Norway invaded to protect neutral Sweden’s iron ore getting to Germany. Quisling installed as nazi puppet in Norway.

4 France Wrong to think the Ardennes would send the Germans through Belgium (Maginot Line). Dunkirk 300,000: British and French troops evacuated in ‘Operation Dynamo’ France surrendered in the same railway carriage as Germans had. Vichy France and Occupied France. Resistance movement.

5 Operation Sea Lion and The Battle of Britain German plan = Sea Lion Churchill ‘We shall never surrender’. RAF Spitfire and Hurricanes and Radar Vs Luftwaffe. The Blitz: Civilian cities targeted allows RAF recover.

6 North Africa Libyan Oil crucial to war. Italy incompetent. Rommel’s Afrika corp successful at first. Montgomery and El Alamein a turning point.

7 Operation Barbarossa June 1941: 3 pronged attack on Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev. Russian retreat. Scorched earth policy. Stalin’s ‘Great Patriotic War’ German troops and machines not able for Russian winter. Stalingrad (control of Caucasus oil fields) big turning point.

8 USA Joins the War USA had supplied food and weapons to GB. Allied convoys had tried to fend off U-Boat ‘Wolfpacks’. Japan’s Empire. Dec 1941 Pearl Harbour. US navy lucky as only 18 ships sunk. Eventually Alllied ships, weapons (depth charges), sonar, code-breaking and air reconnaissance won.

9 Allied Bombing & Allied Advance 1942-1945 US Flying Fortresses and GB Lancasters bombed German cities and factories. German retaliation with V1 and V2. GB and US troops up through Italy. Russians push Germans back. Battle of the Kursk (biggest tank battle)

10 Operation Overlord (D-Day) D-Day 6 June 1944 Normandy (shallow) Utah, Omaha, Juno, Gold and Sword. Mulberry Harbours. Gliders and parachutes. Pluto the pipeline. Battle of the Bulge Hitler’s suicide and VE day 15th August 1945

11 Defeat of Japan US helped by Austalia and GB. Island hopping. Aircraft carriers. Kamakazi. Battles of Midway, Coral Sea and Iwo Jima. Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

12 Why the Allies Won Bigger armies USA wealth and weapons ‘the arsenal of democracy’ Oil

13 Results of WW2 Destruction (Marshall Aid) Nuremberg trials Germany divided Cold War Super powers European Unity

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