1. And…
• H needed oil
– Forced
• Romania
• Hungary
• Bulgaria
– to support
them

2. Meanwhile
• I invaded Greece,
but was defeated
• G invaded
Yugoslavia and G
• G+I were fighting
in North Africa to
take Suez canal

3. The phoney war ended in spring
1940
• By 1940 it was obvious that F & UK
surrender wasn’t going to be easy

4. • In April, G
invaded
Denmark and
Norway
– British force
failed to help
norwegians

5. Desert warfare
1940-1943 North Africa

6. • I advanced into Egypt
• Uk pushed them back to Libya
Rommel,
Desert
Fox

7. Terrible conditions
• Heat by day
• Lack of water
• Freeze at night
• Flies and diseases
• Open landscape

8. The Russian Front

9. H Plans
• Destruction of communism
• Use slav peoples as slave labour
– They were inferior

10. Operation Barbarossa. June 1941
• 3 attacks
• Stalin did not believe H
could break the pact
• USSR was not ready

11. Lamenting the death. Searching for friends
and relatives murdered by the Germans at
Kerch, the Crimea

12. Hitler’s Gamble
• Russian’s unprepared and
weak
• Equipment outdated
• Many people against
communism
• Time enough till winter

13. What went wrong?
• Distance and supply
– 1500 km to Moscow
• Roads in bad
conditions
• Scorched earth
policy (política de
tierra quemada)
• People against nazis
– Due to brutality

14. Winter campaign
• Barbarossa was delayed due to Balkans
• G were unprepared
• G couldn’t reach targets
– Leningrad
– Moscow
– Stalingrad

15. The rise of Japan 1930-1942

16. The war in the Far East didn’t begin at
the same time as the war in Europe
• The war in Asia was caused by Japanese
growth

17. • Japan had taken control of Korea in 1905
and Manchuria in 1931

18. • Many japanese people admired the
strength and power of dictators like Hitler
and Mussolini in Europe

19. • The army
took more
power,
building up
large and
modern naval
forces

20. A treaty was signed with Hitler in
1936

21. Anti-Comintern pact

22. • By 1941 Japan had taken control of large
parts of eastern China

23. • To maintain their power and economic
advantages the japanese needed supplies
of coal, rubber, tin, oil and other raw
materials

24. Japan planned a surprise attack
on the USA
• The USA, worried by japanese expansion,
had banned trade with Japan

25. Japanese expansion in 1940