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=Awesomeness= This is another cartoon that I made from Toondoo. This is so awesome because now it lets you use 4 boxes, so more information can be said. This is the simplified version of the Battle of Britain. Top-left box 1st, then top-right, then bottom left, bottom right. In the first box, Hitler offers peace because he thought Britain was in no condition to fight. When it denied, Germany immediately started attacking Britain. In box 2, the Luftwaffe is using its strategy to blow up Britain. When the Britains were close to defeat, Hitler did not follow up, losing a great opportunity. Britain grabs hold of this moment, and the Air Raid Precautions which was set up a long time ago finally had its use. People were provided with gasmasks and many other different things were done. In the end, the Germans did less damage.

This is an awesome picture that captures some British kids hiding in a trench as a war was going on above. It is obvious that their parents are either fighting or helping their country. It is actually so sad that see the kids watch helplessly. During this war, roads were blown apart and transportation actually went into the roads. What will happen to these kids? Hope the trenches successfully hid them from danger. This picture gives people an idea of how bad things were going on Britain during the war. This is a film of the Battle of Britain. I wonder if it will be accurate? It's awesome that a movie is made of this so that people can have a visual of what actually happened during the War. Picture of Kids Movie picture

=PART ONE: War in the West, 1939-41= ** 1. **** From Lightning to Phoney War **

- Germans used //blitzkrieg//, or ‘lightning war,’ to invade Poland in 1939 Sep. 1st

__Blitzkrieg__ - aim: smash enemy’s defenses with sudden, combined attack by aircraft, tanks and infantry - started by bomber aircraft, blowing up roads and railways, factories, power stations, setting fire to towns and cities - Germans bombed Poles with //Stuka// dive-bombers - Sep. 17th captured West Poland, and since USSR had secret agreement with Germany, it invaded East Poland - Sep. 28th Poland surrended because no chance of winning

__The Suffering of the Poles__ - 1939 Polish gov. published collection of witnesses of blitzkierg in //The Polish Black Book// o people heard from Berlin broadcast that attack would be humane o burned down cities, market towns, villages, houses one by one o corpses of men and animals everywhere, bomb showers o famished people eating dead horses o end of Sep., 66000 Poles dead and 200000 wounded

__The ‘Phoney War’__ - Britain and France declared war on Germany after 2 days of invasion - Poland was 1000km away from them, they had weak armies so couldn’t do much to protect Poland - Instead, they prepared to fight Germany in western Europe o British Expeditionary Force sent to France o French army placed along frontier with Germany and Belgium - 1.5 million children and women were evacuated in Britain to countryside - **Blackout** forbade people to use lights at night - Everyone had to carry gas-masks - Called **Phoney War** because nothing was done for 9 months, life was normal

** 2. **** The Fall of Western Europe ** __Germany attacks Norway__ - Phoney War ended when Germany invaded Norway on April 1940 - British aim: stop iron ore being taken by rail and ship from northern Sweden to Germany - Also captured Denmark to supply bases for the invasion of Norway - Royal Navy attacked and sank many Germany ships, and 30,000 troops sent to Norway, but they were poorly trained - Neville Chamberlain blamed for defeat in Norway, forcing him to resign - **Winston Churchill** took position and formed National Government – coalition including members of Conservative, Labour and Liberal parties o Wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us

__Germany attacks the West__ - aim: smash France and force Britain to surrender - **Operation Yellow** began May 10th 1940 - first defeated Berlin and Holland with blitzkrieg, then invaded France at the most unexpected place: Ardennes mountains, forced British and French armies to retread to **Dunkirk** on Channel coast - B+F organized seaborne rescue operation, half were to board ships in Dunkirk harbor, the rest had to wait o Great defeat, many died

__The Fall of France__ - Mussolini declared war on France on June 10th - Gov. feld paris and Prime Minister changed to Marshal Pétain who signed cease-fire with Germany - North and East France captured by Germany, South governed by Pétain in **Vichy**

__Britain Alone__ - Germany captured 6 Euro nations in less than a year - Hitler wanted peace with Britain, but it refused, so Hitler ordered the whole German army to invade Britain - Over 1 million men who volunteered to join Brit. army was called **Home Guard** - Even King George VI practiced shooting with a gun

** 3. **** Battle Over Britain **

- **Operation Sealion**: codename for Germany’s invasion plan __﻿__ __Operation Sealion__ - **Luftwaffe**, the German air force was vital o task: win control of airspace over Channel to prevent British Royal Air Force (**RAF**) from sinking invasion craft - it wasn’t as strong as it looked, even when it had more bombers than RAF, # of fighters was the same - Britain could fight for longer and it had a chain of radar stations allowing them to predict invasions - Battle of Britain – RAF desperately fighting back the Luftwaffe

__The Battle of Britain__ - RAF was close to defeat, but the Luftwaffe didn’t make use of this advantage - Hitler ordered attacks on London to revenge for British air-raids on Berlin, giving RAF chance to rebuild forces - RAF successfully kept control of air over Britain - Hitler called off invasion and Britain was safe

__The Blitz__ - Germany continues using Blitzkrieg (Blitz) on Britain - **Air Raid Precautions** (ARP) of Britain was a defense organization, they issued everyone gasmasks, air-raid shelters were made, blackout rule still used - Blitz did not do as much damage as people expected, but still killed 60,595 people

** 4. **** The Mediterranean War ** __Importance of the Mediterranean__ - Mussolini wanted to make Mediterranean area into “Italian Lakes” - For Britain, this part of the world was vital trade route between her and her colonies - Hitler didn’t mind Italy having it; Hitler’s generals wanted to get rid of British armies in it; Britain needed it --- struggle between the 3 o This struggle centered over Balkan sates and desert lands of NE Africa

__War in the Balkans__ - Italy and Germany signed Axis, but Hitler did not tell Mussolini when he invaded Poland, and he also told Muss. not to invade Yugoslavia - So Italy went to invade Greece without telling Hitler - Greeks won and drove Italians back to Albania, and Britain bombed some Italian ships - Hitler decided to help Muss and ordered troops to protect Romania while putting pressure on Balkan states to join Axis o Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria agreed, Yugoslavia did not – 20,000 killed and it was forced to surrender - Germany also invaded Greece, Brits tried helping but no use – captured Greece - All Balkan states under Axis and Hitler went on to capture Island of Crete

__War in North Africa__ - General O’Connor of Brit attacked Italian troops in Egypt and won - O’Connor wanted to capture Italian land in North Africa, but was ordered to protect Greece, so Hitler sent troops to NA to help Italians - British all driven back to Egyptian border - General Wavell tried stopping Germans in NA but couldn’t, remaining defensive for one year

Germany had gained many of its victories using its war strategy "Blitzkrieg." When it invaded Poland in 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany, but nothing happened for 9 months, so this was known as Phoney War. Germany decided to capture other countries, along with France, which lost because it got attacked on both sides, so Britain was left alone to fight Germany. When Germany decided that Britain might be too weak to fight back, it offered a peace pact, but Britain declined, so Germany went on to bomb Britain, but she did not lose or get captured by Germany. War soon spread out to the Balkan areas and North Africa, where Britain fought Italy and Germany alone with some help of smaller armies from Greece Australia, and India, and the Mediterranean became a place of struggle for power.
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1. What is one vital move Germany did wrong that corrupted its invasion of Britain? 2. What was the Home Guard and how did it help Britain? 3. If Churchill did not stop O'Connor in 1941, what could've happened? 4. What were 2 things the British Expeditionary Force told people to do? 5. Why was the Phoney War odd, apart from the fact that it did not start for 9 months?
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