The military strategies employed.

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 Good foundation  Mobilised economy  Armies Single army command (Might is combined)  Element of surprise!

 Large ships  use to counter Germany’s attack (operation Rheinbung)  Midget submarines  Code breaking  Quick defense strategies

 Defending multiple areas  Smart investments of money  Propaganda (: (: (:

The military strategies employed.

 Barbarossa  BLITZKREIG  Operation Blue

 The first version of the plan was to have a massive attack on Moscow – his primary target. He also wanted a secondary attack on Kiev and two masking attacks in the Baltic towards Leningrad and in Moldavia in the south.  For the next version of the plan, he changed Marcks plan by having three thrusts; a major one against Moscow, a smaller attack on Kiev and a major attack on Leningrad. After taking Moscow and Leningrad, Halder wanted a move north to Archangel. After Kiev had fallen, he envisaged a drive into the Don/Volga region.  The third and final variant was Hitler’s plan which he codenamed Barbarossa.

 STRENGTH: The only weapon that stopped the blitzkrieg of Germany was the very severe Russian winter.  German and Hitler’s blitzkrieg military strategies were considered to be one of the most successful military tactics ever implanted in the history of warfare.

 Hitler drove east at the beginning of May  Thrust was dynamic  EFFECTIVENESS: 170,000 Russians taken prisoner in the first week

 Modern technology  Cutting enemy’s supplies off  Using good strategies from others

AIMS: break into the Atlantic and attack Allied shipping, Was mainly not to defeat enemies of equal strength, but to tie them down in a delaying action, while preserving her combat capacity as much as possible, so as to allow more ships to get at the merchant ships in the convoy.

 Superior weaponary  Modern design and technology

GERMANY BRITAIN Had well-planned strategies  Increased war production  Well-prepared  Modern technology  Propaganda  Fast thinking Had well-planned strategies  Increased war production  Well-prepared  Modern technology  Propaganda  Fast thinking

GERMANY BRITAIN  Used the latest and newest model for weapons  Depended on heavy weapons  War efforts at the expense of others  Used weapons that were not very fast  Depended on wit  War efforts were voluntary

BOOKS:  Stewart Ross The second world war  Karen Farrington: The soldier’s war War at sea War for the air  War Diaries

 Good info given, although section on Germany is much meatier than that on Britain. You looked at German military campaigns, but have left out British ones.  Comparison can be made more effective if you can come up with a key concluding statement which can summarise the essence.  E.g. Germany initially had more superior strategies (Blitzkrieg) and military technology; but the British had superior intelligence which was able to decode the German code, and to counter the threat posed by Blitzkrieg, as well as the superior strategy of using the air- force to compliment naval operations. Therefore the British were ultimately able to defeat/out-wit the Germans.