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foresight
Three years of mounting international tension
Spanish Civil War, Anschluss (union) of Germany and Austria, Hitler's
occupation of the Sudetenland and the invasion of Czechoslovakia
Phoney War
Western Europe was eerily quiet during
this 'phoney war but countries still
prepared for war despite few signs of
conflict
In eastern Europe and Scandinavia there
was active conflict as Russia followed
Germany into Poland in September. Both
the Societ Union and Germany carved up
Poland between the USSR continued this
aggression by going on to invade Finland
Key Terms
Maginot Line
Fortified line of defense along German/French border
Blitzkrieg
Lightning war
Wehrmacht
German armed forces
Luftwaffe
German air-force
Phoney War
Period from October 1939 to April 1940
Mental Set
Military Engagements in
WWII
Think in terms of Sky, Land, and Sea
Video
Watch for the challenges that Britain
had to overcome and why Germany
was unsuccessful
(6 minutes to 18 minutes)
Battle Chart II
Create a battle chart for WWII military
engagements including:
Dieppe
Battle of Britain
Italian Campaign
North African Campaign
Operation Barbarossa
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
Liberation of the Netherlands
Battle of the Atlantic
The Pacific theatre (Battle of Hong Kong, bombing of Pearl Harbour)
Changes
May 1942 Allies cracked the German
naval code and they could track
submarines more easily
Also, there was better training for
personnel, increase in equipment
sophistication and there were more
ships were manufactured than were
sunk
Video
Canadian involvement in the war at
sea
Watch for the conditions and level of
danger that sailors faced during WWII
A Miserable, Rotten, Hopeless Life from
Canada: A Peoples History approximately 26
minutes
Lebensraum
Lebensraum one of Hitlers key aims
Living space in which Hitler believed it was
the right and duty of the German master
race to be the worlds greatest empire
German domination of central and eastern
Europe at the expense of Slavic peoples
Primary target was Russia and her vassal
border states
Land: USSR
In 1941 Germany sought to take
USSR (Operation Barbarossa)
(seize Leningrad, advance to Moscow
and south occupy the Ukraine)
Hitlers generals were silent when shown
the plan but they did not voice doubts
The Germans were not successful
Land: Dieppe
In 1942 the Allies planned to breach
German defenses in France at Dieppe
Churchill wanted a morale boosting victory
After years of training in Britain, some
Canadian politicians and generals were
anxious for Canadian troops to experience
battle
Land: Italy
In 1943 the Allies sought to push
Italy back and relieve pressure from
the Eastern Front
Soft underbelly of Europe proved to be
harder than anticipated
4 June 1944 Allies seized control over
Rome
Land: D-Day
On June 6, 1944 the Allies tried again
to gain a foothold on the continent in
order to launch further offensives
Whereas Dieppe had been practiced
twice, the Normandy invasions were
repeatedly practiced and all details
worked out
Video
Canadian involvement in the raid on Dieppe
Watch for the reasons for its failure