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7 EFFECTS OF U-BOAT WARFAREEFFECTS OF U-BOAT WARFARE CONVOYS OF MERCHANT SHIPSCONVOYS OF MERCHANT SHIPS STATISTICS OF LOSSES AND SHIP CONSTRUCTIONSTATISTICS OF LOSSES AND SHIP CONSTRUCTION

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9 Chart of Allied merchant ships sunk by German submarines (u- boats) from

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11 Defense spending increased as the U.S. realizes it must prepare for eventual war against the aggressors.

12 THE ROBIN MOOR WAS CLEARLY MARKED AS A MERCHANT VESSEL FROM THE USA

13 Convoys increased the merchant ships chances of surviving the ocean voyage

14 AREA OF GREATEST DANGER FOR ALLIED MERCHANT SHIPS

15 CONVOY ROUTES AND ANTI-SUBMARINE AIR PATROLS

16 OPERATION BARBAROSSAOPERATION BARBAROSSA SOVIET WINTER COUNTERATTACKSOVIET WINTER COUNTERATTACK GERMAN SUMMER 1942 OFFENSIVEGERMAN SUMMER 1942 OFFENSIVE BATTLE OF STALINGRADBATTLE OF STALINGRAD BATTLE OF KURSKBATTLE OF KURSK

17 Newsreel on Germany’s attack on the USSR: there are a few problems with the audio and video.

18 The world is shocked when Germany and the USSR sign a Non-Aggression Pact, promising not to attack each other

19 HITLER WANTED TO AVOID A TWO FRONT WAR

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21 THE SOVIET UNION HAD AN ARMY OF OVER 4,700,000 WITH MILLIONS MORE IN RESERVE. THE USSR HAD 20,000 TANKS BUT MANY WERE OBSELETE AND NO MATCH FOR THE GERMAN PANZERS (TANKS). THE GERMAN ARMY, WERMACHT, INVADED THE SOVIET UNION WITH 3,400,000 SOLDIERS AND OVER 3000 TANKS.

22 Although the USSR had more of everything, most of their equipment was out of date and could not stand up to modern German weapons; however, the new KV1 and T34 Russian tanks in Modern USSR were superior to German tanks. USSR

23 T34 RUSSIAN MEDIUM TANK SUPERIOR TO ANY GERMAN TANK AT THE TIME, 1941

24 OPERATION BARBAROSSA

25 A GERMAN ANTI-TANK GUN CREW EASILY DESTROYS OUTMODED RUSSIAN TANKS. GERMAN COMBAT ENGINEERS REPAIR A BRIDGE DESTROYED BY THE RETREATING RUSSIANS

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27 GERMANS ADVANCE ACROSS USSR

28 BATTLE OF MOSCOW Moscow

29 RUSSIAN POSTER ENCOURAGING TROOPS TO DEFEND MOSCOW THE GERMANS WERE PUSHED BACK BUT THEY REGROUPED AND WERE READY TO ATTACK THE NEXT SPRING AFTER BEATING BACK SOVIET COUNTERATTACKS.

30 RUSSIAN MIXED TANK AND SKI INFANTRY TEAM ADVANCE ON GERMAN POSITIONS.

31 SOLDIERS KILLED, WOUNDED, CAPTURED OR MISSING FROM JUNE 1941 TO JAN 31, USSR NUMBERS INCLUDE 3.35 MILLION SOLDIERS CAPTURED

32 German 1942 offensives in the Soviet Union STALINGRAD CAUCASUS

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34 PHOTOS FROM THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD

35 RUSSIAN ASSAULT TEAM ARMED WITH FLAME THROWERS AND SUB- MACHINE GUNS PREPARES TO ATTACK

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37 STALINGRAD: A CITY IN RUINS

38 1 While the Germans were engaged in vicious fighting inside Stalingrad the Russians prepared a counterattack named Operation Uranus, succeeded in surrounding the German 6 th army. Arrow one shows the ultimate goal of the Russian attack: to cut off the German armies fighting in the Caucasus mountains. THE RUSSIANS SPRING A TRAP !

39 PLANES STATISTICS AT THE START OF OPERATION URANUS

40 HITLER’S TROOPS ARE STOPPED

41 THE GERMANS RETREATED HUNDREDS OF MILES BEFORE THEY HALTED, COUNTERATTACKED AND STOPPED THE SOVIET WINTER OFFENSIVE

42 STALINGRAD GERMANS RETREATED FROM STALINGRAD GERMAN ARMIES

43 The end at Stalingrad: German prisoners, only 5,000 of the 250,000 captured returned after the war

44 IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1943, HITLER DECIDED ON ANOTHER OFFENSIVE ON THE EASTERN FRONT. THIS WOULD LEAD TO THE GREATEST TANK BATTLE IN HISTORY, THE BATTLE OF KURSK. MAP SHOWS THE SITUATION AFTER THE END OF THE SOVIET 1942 WINTER OFFENSIVE

45 MAP OF THE KURSK BULGE. THE GERMAN GOAL WAS TO SURROUND AND DESTROY ALL THE RUSSIAN ARMIES AND RESERVES DEFENDING THE AREA INSIDE THE BULGE.

46 ARMOR STRENGTH AT THE START OF THE KURSK CAMPAIGN OPERATION CITADEL

47 THE GERMANS USED NEW ARMORED VEHICLES FOR THEIR KURSK OFFENSIVE HEAVY TIGER TANK PANTHER TANK, OFTEN CALLED THE BEST TANK OF WW II FERDINAND, HEAVY ASSAULT GUN

48 GERMAN TIGER TANKS BURNING AT KURSK

49 THE GERMANS SUFFERED HEAVY LOSSES AT THE HANDS OF THE SOVIETS AND THEY COULD NOT RECOVER NUMBER OF LOST TANKS, ARTILLERY, AND MEN

50 Film from USSR sources showing Soviet troops fighting

51 JAPANESE SNEAK ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR JAPAN’S CONQUESTS IN ASIA BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA BATTLE OF MIDWAY, TURNING POINT IN THE PACIFIC THEATER