1. Allied Resistance

2.  What have we learned about so far?
 USA’s role in Germany’s defeat
 German weaknesses and mistakes

3. 1) How the reorganisation of the Soviet
Union changed the course of the war on the
Eastern Front
2) How Britain stood up against Hitler
3) How resistance movements aided the Allies

5.  Soviet Union responsible for defeating 80% of the
German armed forces on the Eastern Front
 Operation Barbarossa launched –
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RePOWFtsInw
 Blitzkrieg on an awesome scale – Russians caught off-
guard  Soviet air and tank forces almost destroyed

6.  Tide would soon turn…
No. Reason Effect?
1 Errors on German side
2 Strong resistance from Soviet
troops
3 Bitter Russian winters
4 Lend-Lease aid from 1942
Gave Soviets the chance to:
i) Reorganise army
ii) Rebuild economy
iii)Restore military
production

7.  Battle of Moscow
 Battle of Stalingrad
 Battle of Kursk

8.  Battle of Moscow (Oct 1941-Jan 1942)
▪ Political significance
▪ Delays allowed Soviets to reorganise and turn
the tide  Counter-attack

9.  Battle of Stalingrad (23 Aug 1942 – 2 Feb
1943) – turning point
▪ Reasons: name of city, oil fields in Caucasus,
communications
▪ ‘Not a step backwards’
▪ Germans took parts of city but couldn’t assert
themselves
▪ Bled Germany army dry

10.  Battle of Kursk (July-Aug 1943)
▪ Launched to restore confidence
▪ GreatestTank battle ofWW2
▪ Last major offensive by Germans in Russia

12. I would say to the House, as I said to those
who've joined this government: "I have
nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and
sweat.“ We have before us an ordeal of the
most grievous kind.We have before us many,
many long months of struggle and of
suffering.You ask, what is our policy? I will
say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air,
with all our might and with all the strength
that God can give us; to wage war against a
monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the
dark and lamentable catalogue of human
crime.That is our policy.You ask, what is our
aim? I can answer in one word: victory.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all
terror, victory, however long and hard the
road may be; for without victory, there is
no survival.
WC planned to lead Britain to fight the
Germans till the end,
till victory was achieved.

13.  Hitler had hoped that Britain would discuss
peace terms after the fall of France in June
1940 – How didWC respond?

14.  Why couldn’t Blitzkrieg work against Britain?
 relied on the fast and flexible deployment of large
numbers of ground troops

15.  Germany needed to gain air and sea
supremacy before its troops could invade
Britain
 Planned to launch Operation Sea Lion –
amphibious and airborne invasion of Britain
Heinkel He 111
Flown during Battle of Britain

16.  Hitler aimed to devastate
Royal Air Force (RAF) by
bombing British shipping
and coastal defences,
airfields and radar
installations
 Hitler’s tactical changes
(see Part 2) gave RAF time
to recover
 Bombing of British cities
strengthened the morale
of BritonsBombing of London

17.  Failure to launch
Operation Sea Lion or
to force Britain to sign
an armistice
 British Victory in
the Battle of
Britain

19.  Who is this man?What did he do?
Part of Force 136, a British-led
underground resistance movement
against the Japanese

20.  What is a ‘resistance movement’?
 An organized effort by a portion of the civil
population of a country to resist the legally
established government or an occupying
power and to disrupt civil order and
stability.

21.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrA-i6kOdc

22.  Resistance movements in
Nazi-occupied areas
provided important
information and support to
the Allies
 Sabotage operations – blow up
rail links and factories
 Spreading false intelligence to
Germans
 Helped Allies gather
intelligence
 Many joined attack on
Germans when the Germans
began their retreat

23.  TheYugoslav, Polish and Soviet resistance
movements, as well as the Free French
Forces, were a few prominent examples of
such movements
Free French Forces under
General Charles De Gaulle

24.  When Germany invaded the USSR,
communists, who were experienced in
underground resistance movements, began
to actively resist the Nazis
Pinkus Kartin
Part of Polish Communist resistance

25.  What were a few factors which helped the
Soviets gain an advantage over the Germans?
 What were Hitler’s objectives during the
Battle of Britain?
 Why did the Germans lose?
 How did resistance movements aid theAllies?