1. 10th World Studies 5.18.18 Today’s Agenda: WWII HW: Vote
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Today’s Learning Objectives:
I can determine the importance of the battles of WWII
Today’s Agenda:
WWII
HW:
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Prepare yourself for an exam (next week!)

2. What do I want you to know about each specific battle?
At minimum:
Who were the main nations involved?
Who “won?”
Timeframe and location
Significance of the battle within the context of WWII

3. “MAIN” PLAYERS: The Allies: Axis powers: China Great Britain France
Soviet Union, from June 1941
United States, from December 1941
Axis powers:
Germany
Italy
Japan
Soviet Union, until June 1941

4. 1939: Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
The Axis Powers
1939: Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
1940: Tripartite Pact
1936: Anti-Comintern Pact
1937
1939: The Pact of Steel
1936: Rome-Berlin Axis

5. 1941
1941
The Allied Powers

6. “Buffer Zone” from the “Geris”
The Winter War
1939
Karielian Isthmus
“Buffer Zone” from the “Geris”

7. Connections to Germany? Mannerheim and Germany?
The Winter War
Who Won?
Connections to Germany?
Mannerheim and Germany?
Importance to WWII?

8. Who Won? April 1940 Operation Weserübung Importance to WWII?
Why Norway?
Why Denmark?
Who Won?
April 1940
Operation Weserübung

9. Fall Gelb, Rot, and the Fall of France
June 1940
Who Won?
Anything Familiar?
Importance to WWII?

10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-s9ji6XdAY The Miracle at Dunkirk
Churchill Speech?

11. Battle of Britain/Sea Lion
Importance to WWII?
Innovations?
Who Won?
Bombing of Berlin?
July 1940
Battle of Britain/Sea Lion

12. Basic German Invasion Plan… Operation Sea Lion
create a cordon (police/military encirclement) in the shortest straight line between France and Britain…
line it with minefields and subs, and ferry the German army across…
Churchill claims that Britain could have torn this minefield up, destroyed the subs, and crushed this invasion… he also says that this was the most heavily fortified section of the British coast…

13. Churchill estimated that at the beginning of the Battle of Britain the Luftwaffe forces outnumbered the RAF 3-1, but there was considerable home field advantage for the British
Why?  fuel… Luftwaffe only had about 10 minutes of fighting time over England before having to head back to refuel.
Also, Radar, & the beginnings of Enigma
Churchill describes the need to defend a long coastline in Britain meant to set up forces on the perimeter that would stall the enemy and then the largest possible reserve for quick counterattack… (what he accused the French of not doing in the Battle of France… )

14. The Bombing of London a ‘Relief’ to Churchill
“London can take it.”
Hitler had made a tactical error by changing his focus, allowing RAF to recover
By October, Hitler gave up on the bombing of Britain
Too late to launch sea lion
Instead, would deal with England via the War in the Atlantic (Wolf Packs)
Starve the British out

15. World War II
Year-by-Year:
The Entire War in 7 Minutes…