Where Are We By Dec. 1941

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Where Are We By Dec. 1941?

• Sept. 1939 Poland surrenders
• April 1940 Denmark, Norway, Netherlands,
  Belgium, and Luxembourg
• June 1940 France surrenders
• -Interventionists vs. Isolationists in USA
• July 1940 Japan and the Greater East Asia
  Co-Prosperity Sphere
• Sept 1940 Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
• -U.S. embargo is extended Export Control Act
• Sept. 1940-May 1941 Battle of Britain
• - FDR signs Selective Training and Service Act
  in Sept. 1940 (1st peace time draft)
• Jan. 1941 Lend Lease replaces Cash and Carry
• - U.S. loans Britain/allies 50 billion in
  weapons/vehicles/supplies
• -Results in undeclared warfare between German
  and U.S. navies
• June 1941 Germany invade the Soviet Union
• - U.S. extends Lend Lease aid to USSR
• July 1941 U.S. ends all trade with Japan (had
  supplied 80 of their oil pre-embargo)
• Aug. 1941 Atlantic Charter
• -FDR Churchill establish goals for post-war
  world
• -U.S., Britain, and 15 others vow to create
  international org. for peace keeping ? U.N.
• Nov. 1941 Japan needs oil to keep expanding? oil
  is in the Philippines

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Four Fronts

• Hitler opens up Eastern Front when he attacks
  USSR in June 1941
• U.S. begins island hopping campaign in the
  Pacific against the Japanese in 1942
• Africa- U.S. enters Northern African in Nov. 1942
• Western Front U.S. lands in France on D-Day
  (June 6, 1944)

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Operation Barbarossa June 1941

• Hitlers plan to invade the Soviet Union
  breaking non-aggression pact (only served to by
  Hitler time to control west)
• Opens the Eastern Front the biggest theater of
  war/military campaign in world history
• 26.6 MILLION Soviets are killed the most
  casualties in all of war history

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Why?

• Fascists and Communists are not BFFs
• Lebensraum (Mein Kampf) Living Space
• Slave labor and agriculture
• Slavic race inferior
• OIL, OIL, OIL! Its all about the OIL!

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My Bad WWII Miscalculations

• Avoid a 2-Front War!
• Stalin did not believe Hitler would attack USSR
  while still fighting Britain
• Dont be overly confident!
• Hitler expected the Soviet Campaign to last 8-10
  weeks. Only 1/5 of his troops had winter
  clothing.
• Oooops! gt Soviet Winters NOT FUN!

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Leningrad Now St. Petersburg
"I watched my father and mother die - I knew
perfectly well they were starving. But I wanted
their bread more than I wanted them to stay
alive. And they knew that about me too. That's
what I remember about the blockade that
feeling that you wanted your parents to die
because you wanted their bread."
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Stalingrad Spring 1942
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Result

• Germanys Eastward advance into Soviet Union is
  halted ? thanks to Soviet determination and
  sacrifice
• Stalin will never forgive the U.S. and Allies for
  not coming to the Soviet Unions defense.

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Bataan Death March
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1942 Operation Torch
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1944 Operation Overlord

• June 6, 1944 D-Day

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Germanys last effort ? Battle of the Bulge
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Deaths of Mussolini and Hitler
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V-E Day Victory in Europe