Hitler’s violations of Treaty of Versailles along w/British and French concessions Anschluss Sudetenland

Chamberlain and Hitler – 1938 (Munich Agreement) &password= &playVideo=90097

Appeasement – then and now

WAR

Maginot Line

Ardennes

Dunkirk – May 1940

The Blitz June 1940 – Sept

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few” - Winston Churchill

Russo-Finnish War ,000 men 2,500 tanks 4000 planes 300,000 men 32 tanks 100 planes

Operation Barbarossa As the German officers gazed across the Beresina in the direction of Moscow they noticed wooden structures and implements in the clear water

Number of German soldiers, tanks, planes for Operation Barbarossa Number of Soviet soldiers, tanks, planes, etc. 4,000,000 men 3300 tanks 3450 planes 4,500,000 men tanks planes

Number of Soviets killed or captured in first 3 ½ months of German invasion2,500,000 Number of Soviet tanks and planes destroyed Over 5000 planes Over tanks

The German army cut-off and laid siege to Leningrad for 900 days. After the populace had eaten all the domesticated animals there were in the city they were reduced to eating rats, birds, etc. Between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 people starved to death as a result of the siege

Rattenkrieg

By late Nov/early Dec temps were dropping to -40 degrees! -40 degrees! By January they had dropped to -70 degrees!!

Unlike Stalin, Hitler had not issued his troops winter gear! What does that tell you about Hitler’s expectations for Operation Barbarossa (his attack on Soviet Union)

Battle of Kursk (summer 1943) Germany – 900,000 men 2700 tanks Soviets – 1,300,000 men 3300 tanks

6,000,000 Jews

June 6, 1944 Operation Overlord

D-Day June 6, 1944

Allied Cemetery - Normandy

December 7, 1941 “ “A day which shall live in infamy ”

The Bataan Death March Over 7000

Battle of Midway (June 1942) Unbeknownst to the Japanese, the U.S. had broken the Japanese naval code earlier that year So although greatly outnumbered, the Americans were able to catch the Japanese by surprise as the Japanese were attempting to launch a surprise attack on the naval base at Midway

Midway was the turning point of the war in the Pacific From that point on the US was on the offensive and the Japanese were on the defensive

Despite the resounding and overwhelming loss at Midway Japan continued to fight on - for another 3+ years. What belief/practice, endemic throughout Japanese culture, accounted for that Code of Bushido Death before Dishonor

Hiroshima Nagasaki

Over 50,000,000 dead Cold War