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If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?Slide2

The Battle of Britain & the betrayal of Russia

1941Slide3

Take over Allied countries on the way to France

Take over France

Invade & Take-over Britain

Part 1: European DominationSlide4

Timeline…

April 9, 1940

– Nazis invaded Denmark and Norway.

May 10, 1940

– Nazis invaded France and Belgium.May 15, 1940

– Holland surrendered to the Nazis.Slide5

JUNE 25TH

, 1940

France surrenders to Germany, just six weeks into the war

This leaves England carrying most of the weight – they need Canada and the

u.s.

Greece, Belgium, Netherlands, Czechoslovakia- all allies but captured by Germany

Germany has the help of japan and Italy as well as a pact with the soviet union Slide6

The battle of Britain

Britain now stood alone against the German war machine. Hitler waited for the British to surrender like the French….this didn’t happen, so Hitler ordered his generals to invade (Operation

Sealion

)

Winston Churchill

: British Prime Minister, he was determined to fight until the end. The Parliament supported this.

In order for the German blitzkrieg to work, the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) had to first destroy the RAF (Royal Air Force) to prevent it being able to bomb the German troops as they landed on the British beaches.The Battle of Britain was the first major battle fought entirely in the air.VS.Slide7

RAF VICTORY!

Hermann Goring promised

Hitler he would defeat

the Royal Air Force in a couple of

weeks

Every day between June and October, 1940 the RAF and the Luftwaffe clashed over Britain. The British army couldn’t defeat the German army, but the air force held them offThis is because: The spitfire: An advanced British plane that could out manoeuvre the German’sRadar: Britain had

technology which enabled it to see when the German aircraft were about to cross the English Channel. They could then send planes to where the attack was coming! Slide8

A ray of hope

Frustrated at the lack of success, Hitler switched to a strategy of terror bombing

British

cities.

This is called a “blitz,” but it was not successful. Eventually Hitler pulled his forces out.

Churchill called it ‘Britain’s finest hour’ because the RAF had held off a much larger German Luftwaffe and prevented a German invasion. Germany had been defeated for the first time in the war.The battle of Britain led to: Home front preparationsAlly propagandaSlide9

Many of the preparations made were similar to those in the first world war. (Rationing, propaganda, war funds, etc.) However

:

The

use of the new German strategy called ‘Blitzkrieg’ meant that civilians would be deliberately targeted in order to spread panic and fear to confuse the enemy

.

Part 2: War on the Home front

Fun Fact: All road signs were uprooted in Britain to confuse enemy paratroopers or invading troops. Slide10

Civilian evacuations:

“

The

government has made plans for the removal of schoolchildren from what are called ‘

evacuable

’ areas to safer places. Householders have offered homes where the children will be made welcome. The children will travel with their schoolteachers and other helpers with them. The transport of three million children is an enormous undertaking. It would not be possible to let all parents know in advance the place where each child will be sent. Of course it means heartache to be separated from your children, but you can be sure that they will be well looked after.”-British Government Leaflet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfAsnfZddEE Slide11

*Between October 1940 and may 1941, nearly 1.5 million people were evacuated in Britain

London

241,000

Manchester

84,343

Merseyside

79,930

Newcastle

52,494

Birmingham

32,688

Leeds/Bradford

26,419

Portsmouth

23,145

Sheffield

13,871

Teeside

8,052

Lancashire

71,484

Sussex

67,541

Yorkshire

50,593

Kent

38,000

Cheshire

38,000

Essex

25,000

Northamptonshire

24,000

Hertfordshire

23,500

Suffolk

23,000

Somerset 

21,000

Surrey

20,000

Children moved

f

rom:

toSlide12

“Evacuation was to have a profound effect in later years on children who were uprooted from their homelands, with their Mick-Mouse gas masks, dispatched to live with strangers in what often amounted to a ‘foreign land’. I know how they felt because I was one of them, a six year old cockney more familiar with the smells and sounds of Billingsgate fish market than with manure and bird song. I came in for my fair share of rough treatment from the family who took me in, but I went on to enjoy some halcyon days growing up on a farm in Norfolk, which changed me from a young city slicker into a country lover I am to this

day.” -Michael

CaineSlide13

Propaganda!

Propaganda aimed to keep people calm and confident that Britain was going to win the war

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The Homefront

in CANADA

The war coloured almost every aspect of day-to-day life in

Canada

Women and men were sent to the front lines. Women as medics usually and men as soldiers. Both sexes also managed munitions factories.

Radio, movie houses, newspapers, magazines featured constant news updates, and advertisements from the government and citizens groups promoting the war effortEnemy naval forces came close to British Columbia, and even closer to the Atlantic provinces and QuebecMost community groups and religious faiths performed volunteer work - knitting warm woollen clothing, collecting books and newspapers, or baking cookies and other treats to send to the men and women serving at the fighting frontsSlide15

Historians are interested in the battle of Britain as it can be seen as a

turning point

in World

History

. After his failed attempt to invade Britain, Hitler

would choose to go back on his agreement with Russia and invade them anyways. This meant that like in the First World War, he would attempt to fight a war on two fronts This eventually meant the defeat of Germany in

Russia, and it is said to be Hitler’s greatest mistake. Part 3: June 22nd, 1941