World War II in Europe

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World War II in Europe

• 1939-1945

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The Outbreak in Europe

• Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact
• Blitzkrieg in Poland (September 1, 1939)
• Poland surrenders (Hans Frank is Nazi
  administrator in Poland)
• Blitzkrieg into Sitzkrieg
• Renewed offensivesNorway and Denmark (April 1940)

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Poles fought tanks with horses
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Stuka dive bomber over Warsaw
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Ten Monumental Decisions, 1940-41 (Ian Kershaw)

• Great Britain decides to fight on (1940)
• Hitler decides to attach U. S. S. R. (fall 40)
• Japan decides to seize golden opportunity
  (1940)
• Mussolinis invasion of Greece (1940)
• FDRs aid (1940-41)

• Stalin decides he knows best (1940-41
• FDRs decision for undeclared war
• Japan decides for war (fall 41)
• Hitlers declaration ov war vs. U. S. (Dec. 41)
• Hitler opts for final solution. (Fall 41)

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Nach Westen

• Invasion of France and surrender
• Miracle at Dunkirk
• Division of France
• Battle of Britain
• Radar and Enigma
• Italy into the Balkansleads to Operation Marita
  (August 1941)
• Romell in North Africa

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Maginot Line
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Maginot Line
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Operation Barbarossa

• Quest for Lebensraum and a war for civilization.
• June 22, 1941 invasion begins
• Scorched earth policy
• Soviet Rally
• Stalingrad
• Soviet Counterattacks

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War of the Century When Hitler fought Stalin

• Battle of Stalingrad, 1942
• Operation Uranus, Nov. 1942
• Battle of Kursk, July 1943
• Soviet Transformation Lend-Lease
• Great Patriotic War
• Gen. Georgi Zhukov
• Battles of Smolensk (Aug.-Oct. 43) and Narva
  (Feb.-Aug. 44)
• Operation Bagration (June-August 44)
• July 20, 1944 PlotOperation Valkyrie
• Battle of Berlin (April-May 45)

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Soviet Partisans hanged by Nazis in 1943
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Zhukov, 1896-1974
Rommel, 1891-1944
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Eisenhower, 1890-1969
Montgomery, 1887-1976
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Western Front

• Battle of El Alamein (23 Oct.- 5 Nov., 1942)
• Operation Torch(Nov. 8, 1942)
• Casablanca Conference (January 1943)
• Battle of the Kasserine Pass (Feb. 19-25, 1943)
• Invasion of Sicily, July 1943
• Teheran Conference (Nov. 28-Dec. 1, 1943)
• Anzio landings (January 1944)
• Fall of Rome, (June 4, 1944)
• Operation Overlord (June 6, 1944)
• Paris liberated (Aug. 25, 1944)
• Operation Market Garden (a bridge too far.)
  (Sept. 17-25, 1944)
• Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 16, 1944-January 25,
  1945)
• Bridge at Remagen (March 8, 1945)

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McAuliffe, 1898-1975
The Battling Bastards of Bastoge
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Dresden Firebombing Raid damage Cremating
corpses at Dresden
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Torgau, April 25, 1945
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Jodl signs at Rheims, May 7, 1945
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World War II casualty statistics vary greatly.
Estimates of total dead range from 62 to 78
million people, the deadliest war ever. Civilians
killed totaled from 40 to 52 million, including
13 to 20 million from war-related disease and
famine. Total military dead from 22 to 25
million, including deaths in captivity of about 5
million prisoners of war. Over 14 of the Soviet
Population perished about 8 of the German
population perished only .032 of the U. S.
population perished Next to the Soviet Union,
China suffered the most deaths at 20 million,
about 4 of the total population. Dollar costs
for the war (288,000,000,000 for U. S. alone in
1940 dollars it would be 5,000,000,000,000
today) U. S. S. R. spent about 9,000,000,000,000
rubles in todays purchasing power. The total
cost of war in todays dollars is
15,000,000,000,000-20,000,000,000,000.