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World II European Theater Ms. Krall Welcome Back! . Bell Ringer- Complete Pacific Review sheet with your neighbor. . Battles Quiz- Thursday! Start of the War…

. Uses the tactic . September 1, 1939 “” or lightening Hitler invades Poland. War. . On hand 98 divisions, . End of September, 1.5 million available for German had action. Had also 9 control over the country. Panzer divisions. Each . By November, Stalin one had 328 , 8 invades . support and 6 batteries.

European of France

. From fall of 1939 to Spring . During this period, Hitler of 1940, war in Europe was plans invasion of France known as the “Sitzkreig” or through Belgium. Goal was sitting war. to reach the and force France . Attack begins in May. By to . June, Allied forces are . Southern part of France evacuated from French was controlled by a puppet town of Dunkirk to government (“Vichy (Operation Dynamo.) France”) and led by . Paris is occupied June 14, Marshal Henri Petain. Was 1940 pro-German.

Welcome Back… . Bell Ringer…. . What is Sitzkreig? . What is Blitzkreig? . What was the name of the planned evacuation of Allied ? . What was the planned invasion to invade England?

The of Britain . “” . Objective was to land . The German had 160,000 German 2,800 aircraft, which along a forty-mile coastal outnumbered the Royal Air stretch of south-east Force (RAF) four to one. England. . August 1940, Germans . Hitler hoped England would begin to bomb Southern accept German domination England. of Europe. . Postpones invasion until British air force could be destroyed. The “Blitz”

. In Sept. Germans . Between Sept. 1940- begin the “Blitz” and May 1941 two million shift their bombing to houses (most in and abandon invasion. London) were destroyed and 60,000 . On the first day of , 430 citizens were civilians were killed. killed. The German . Seen as a moral bombers returned the victory for the Allies. next day and a further 412 died.

Eastern Front Invasion of the

. “” . Outcome of Hitler’s . Stalin did not believe an policy to invasion would occur until create a greater Germany. 1942, when both England . Attack begins June 22, and France would be defeated. 1941 . Total of 3400 tanks and 3 . By August, Germans million men used in the advanced to Leningrad invasion. ( will last over 2 . Stalin uses “scorched- years.) By October head earth” policy. towards Moscow. Mediterranean Front Invasion of North Africa

. Italy declares war on the . The British were able to Allies in June 1940. launch a counteroffensive . Mussolini moves troops and take Libyan territory in stationed in Libya to launch January 1941. an attack on British forces . As a result, Hitler sends in Egypt. Erwin Rommel . Battles between Afrika (Desert Fox ) to lead the and British forces Afrika corps. continue until the US . By May 1943, Allies are landing of forces in North able to take Tunisia and Africa in Nov. 1942 capture 150,000 prisoners. (Operation Torch.) creating . Leads to Operation Husky a three front war. (invasion of Sicily in 1943.)

Battles

. September 8, 1941 - . With the help of the Finnish, , 1944 German Army invades 2nd largest city in USSR. . Part of Operation Barbarossa . City would be surrounded (siege). Shelling and air . people turned out shortly raids continued for almost after the invasion and dug 900 days. antitank ditches around the . In 1942, 650,000 died city. Two hundred thousand during the siege defenders . Soviet in 1944 protected 3,000,000 was able to lift the siege. inhabitants. Good Afternoon! . Bell Ringer: . 1. What was the name of the German invasion of the Soviet Union? . 2. What was the name of Allied invasion of North Africa? . 3. How long did the Siege of Leningrad last? The

. Fought during the winter of . Considered turning point in 1942 to 1943 WWII . Battle was hand-hand . Goal to take oil fields and combat, street by street. Over control communication 2 million soldiers involved. lines. Final target was to . Germans were unable to take the city of Baku. secure the city by winter. . Hitler ordered to “fight to the last bullet.” . Gen. Von Paulus surrenders, 91,000 Germans taken prisoner. Operation Citadel . July 1943 . Largest battle of . German counter- the war (1800) offensive to Stalingrad. . Goal was to break . 300,000 civilians through a “bulge” in the helped the Red army Russian line at Kursk. build defenses, laying . By August, city was of 400,000 liberated. mines(2,400 anti-tank . Last counter-offensive and 2,700 anti- in USSR. 500,000 personnel mines every German casualties. mile.) June 6, 1944 D-Day . In November, . Largest air, land, and 1943,Stalin, Churchill, sea operation in and Roosevelt met in history. Teheran to discuss a . The plan involved second front in Europe. assaults on five beaches west of the . Objective was to Orne River near Caen liberate France. (Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah) by the British, American and Canadian forces.

Operation Fortitude

. Germans believed that . British would transmit attack would happen at messages during spring of Pas-de-Calais. 1944. . On June 5th, 4 airborne divisions (23,000) were . Radio traffic was faked, used with the purpose to plywood and canvas destroy enemy bridges and installations were secure those for an constructed, inflatable tanks offensive. and vehicles were used . Unable to secure its extensively in order to targets, however the deceive the Germans. Germans became confused. (with the help from .) Real invasion?

D Day

. On 6th June, 1944, . At Omaha, US Army 2,727 ships sailed to suffered 2,500 the Normandy coast casualties. and on the first day . By end of the month 156,000 men landed Allies have secured the along a 30 mile front to beaches and begin face 50 German offensive to Paris. divisions. . Paris is liberated on August 25, 1944.

Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944-Jan. 1945 . German counter-offensive to . At first, able to surprise Allies regain initiative on western due to poor weather. However, front. Opposed by Hitler’s allied reinforcements were . able to secure the bulge that . Hitler's intention was to drive occurred 50 miles into the through Antwerp and cut off the British 21st Army Allied front. and the U.S. First and Ninth . Americans suffered 75,000 north of the Ardennes. casualties, Germans 100,000. . Hitler sends a quarter million . Allies were driving the troops across an 85-mile Germans from the west, the stretch of the Allied front, from Red Army launches their southern Belgium into Luxembourg. offensive in the east. Race to Berlin is on!