1. Reflection
 “We had no gloves. We had no winter shoes. We had
no equipment whatsoever to fight or withstand the
cold… we lost a considerable part of our equipment in
general. Due to the cold we lost a lot of people who got
frost-bitten, and we had not even the necessary amount
of ointment, or the most simple and primitive things to
fight it… Guns didn’t fire anymore. Even our wireless
equipment didn’t work properly anymore because the
batteries were frozen hard… We were afraid to become
wounded and to become just the prey of a very bad
winter climate or the prey of the enemy… A good
number, when it came to a decisive moment, tried not
to stick their heads out as much as they might have
done otherwise….” -German Lieutenant Maurer about
invading the USSR

2.  “Those who seek absolute power, even
though they seek it to do what they
regard as good, are simply demanding the
right to enforce their own version of
heaven on earth. And let me remind you,
they are the very ones who always create
the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute
power does corrupt, and those who seek it
must be suspect and must be opposed.”
-Barry Goldwater

3.  In a time of universal deceit, telling the
truth becomes a revolutionary act. –
George Orwell

4. Invasion of the Soviet
Union
And Pearl Harbor…

6. Operation Barbarossa
 After Hitler couldn’t
defeat Britain he
turned to the USSR
– Wanted the oil and
wheat field’s in
Ukraine
 June 22, 1941 Hitler
launched attack
 Soviets were caught
off guard

7. Scorched Earth Policy
 Germans quickly made
their way 600 miles into
Russia and 40% of the
population was under
their control
 Stalin set forth Scorched
Earth Policy
– Russians were to destroy
anything that the Germans
could possibly use before
leaving an area

8. Scorched Earth Policy
 “Behind us is Moscow, and there is no
room left for retreat!”
 Germans weren’t used to cold winter

9. USSR vs. Germany
 Continue to fight
throughout WWII
 Operation Barbarossa
Summer 1941
 Moscow Fall 1941
 Stalingrad Winter 1942
– Turning point in the war
 Kursk Summer 1943
 All Soviets fought
together to save their
country.
 “Join the ranks of the front
brigades, a fighter needs your
hands and aid!”

10. Global War
 Roosevelt and  Japan would start as
Churchill planned out a holding war.
a strategy in
Washington
 Many Americans felt
Japan posed a greater
threat, but Germany
was the target chosen

11. Fall of the Philippines
 By summer’s end of 1942 the Allies faced
defeat
 Gen. Douglas MacArthur was pushed out
of the Philippines, as native troops put up
a huge struggle
 By the summer no significant allied troops
stood between Japan and India or
Austrailia

12. The Big Three
 Able to maintain a unity of purpose during
the war
– Understood the global nature of the battles,
and managed to set aside their many
differences in pursuit of a common goal: the
defeat of Nazi Germany

13. Battle of Coral Sea
 Planes from the American forces were able to stop a large
Japanese force from invading Port Moresby in New Guinea
 Navy code breakers (Navajo) had already broken the
Japanese codes
 Admiral Nimitz sent two carriers the Yorktown and the
Lexington to intercept the Japanese
 the Japanese sank the Lexington and the Yorktown was
badly damaged
 it caused the Japanese to call off their landing in Australia
which helped the American supply lines to stay open
 It also gave the US knowledge of their next target: Midway

14. War In the Pacific
 Battle of Midway
– A turning point in the war for the US
– many casualties and loss of planes, ships
– Broke Japanese naval supremacy in the
Pacific and stalled Japan's offensive