Global+War+Part+2+weiweil2013+03.03.11

This is another one of my (simpler) mind maps, basically depicting the causes, process, and results of Operation Barbarossa during WW2. I drew it as a map/mind-map style, and it also shows the general path that Hitler intended to take to invade the USSR. This is a map depicting Hitler's intended invasion into the USSR, or Operation Barbarossa; Hitler wanted to take Leningrad, Moscow and the economic treasures of Russia all at once, and became indecisive. He got cocky and spread his army too thin because of these desires. In this comic, "Hipster Hitler" visits "Broseph Stalin"; they have been writing each other beforehand, and Hitler seems to believe that they would be very good friends. However, when Hitler arrives to visit Stalin, he gets offended at what Stalin says and thinks up "Operation Brobarossa". This comic is factually incorrect, because Hitler never thought that he would be friends with Stalin; he always hated Communism and only made the Nazi-Soviet Pact to keep the Soviets neutral while he neutralised most of the nations in Western Europe.


 * __Chapter 5: The Great Fatherland War__**
 * reasons for **Germany**'s attack on **USSR**
 * //Nazi-Soviet Pact//, __1939__: allowed **Hitler** to invade **Poland**, allowed **Soviets** to take land too
 * **Hitler** hated //Communism//, pact only to keep **USSR** neutral
 * //Pact// no longer useful = **western Europe** controlled, turn to **East**
 * //Operation Barbarossa//: invasion of **USSR**, __22 June 1941__
 * three armies of 3.2 million men rip through border, capture prisoners, air force, supplies
 * //"scorched earth" policy// = destroy anything that might be useful to **German army** (transportation, supplies, etc)
 * **USSR** saved from defeat in __autumn 1941__
 * **Soviets** move important weapons factories to **East**, out of reach
 * bad weather: **Germans** couldn't take rough **Russian** __winter__ (-20 to -40 degrees)
 * help from **USA** + **UK** (food, weapons, medical supplies, tanks, aircrafts)
 * appalling behaviour of **German forces** (massacres, slave labour) -> strengthening will of **Soviet people** to survive
 * __Chapter 6: War Spreads to the Far East__**
 * **US** wanted to stay out of war, **Japan** wanted to spread and fight
 * end of **US** isolation: **US** start to help **UK** + **China** with war
 * **Japan** attacks **Pearl Harbor**: __7 December, 1941__
 * crippled **US** Pacific Fleet, except for 4 aircraft carriers, oil storage tanks (= more useful)
 * **US** + **Australia**, **NZ**, **Canada**, **S Africa**, 8 other countries, declare war on **Japan**
 * **Japan** + **Germany** + **Italy** = Tripartite Axis Pact, **Germany** + **Italy** declare war on **USA**
 * **Japan** conquers all of **SE Asia**, **western Pacific**, damaged **UK** + **USA** forces, had all the supplies
 * __Chapter 7: War at Sea__**
 * **Germans** aim to starve **UK** into surrender by sinking food + raw material ships
 * no great sea battles until 1941: **Germans** attack **UK** convoys, introduce U-boats
 * //U-boats// = submarines, undetected, could shoot torpedoes
 * //Battle of the Atlantic//: widened after **US** joined war __1941__ (**Germans** attack **US** + **UK** boats)
 * new inventions: Huff Duff = detect radio signals, "Enigma" coding machine decoded **German** orders
 * used faster escort boats, radar, Huff Duff, long-range aircraft to sink U-boats
 * **Germans** failed to starve **UK** to death

Seeing no reason to remain in a pact with Russia, Germany invaded Russia in Operation Barbarossa; at first Germany was winning, but Russia pushed the Germans back, and opened a second front. The war then spreads to the Far East with Japan invading most of Asia, and the USA enters the war with the bombing of Pearl Harbour. War existed at sea prominently, with the German U-boats being the primary weapon against the British convoys carrying supplies.
 * Summary**

Why didn't the Germans try a different tactic once radar was invented? Why didn't Germany defeat the UK before risking a war on two fronts by invading the USSR? Why didn't Japan bomb the oil storage tanks? What new inventions aided the Allies in the wars at sea? How was the USSR saved from defeat?
 * Questions**