The document summarizes key events in World War 2 from 1940-1943 across multiple fronts: 1) In 1940, Germany invaded Denmark, Norway, France, the Low Countries, and forced Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria to support them. Germany also invaded Greece and Yugoslavia. 2) Germany and Italy fought British forces in North Africa to control the Suez Canal from 1940-1943. 3) Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 but faced supply issues and fierce resistance as they advanced towards Moscow and Stalingrad. 4) Japan expanded its control of Asia in the 1930s-1940s and planned a surprise attack on the United States to maintain access to raw materials after the US banned

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• Equipment outdated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