It is time to elect a world leader and your vote counts. Here are the 3 candidates!

It is time to elect a world leader and your vote counts. Here are

the 3 candidates!

Associates with crooked

politicians

Consults with

astrologists

Had 2 mistresses

Chain smokes

Drinks 8-10 martinis a day

Sleeps until noon

Kicked out of office twice

Drinks a quart of whisky every morning

Used opium in college

Never has had an extramarital affair

Decorated war hero

Vegetarian

Doesn’t smoke

Drinks an occasional

beer

Candidate 1: FDR

Candidate 2: = Winston Churchill

Candidate 3:Adolf Hitler

Switzerland & Spain (neutral)

Italy takes

Albania

Czech., Austria, & E. Prussia controlled

by Germany

Pre-WWII

What about Germany & the USSR?

What event marks the

start of WWII in Europe?

Sept. 1, 1939: blitzkrieg of Poland begins

GB & France declare war on Germany

‘40: Soviets take Finland

Takes Denmark in

1 day & Norway in 2

April 9, ‘40: Hitler invades

Denmark & Norway

How so fast?

German air force

(Luftwaffe)

German “lightning war”

(Blitzkreig)

Netherlands, Belgium, & Luxembourg all surrender also

France prepares to

fight

French defense

designed to stop any

German attack across border

2 mil French soldiers

France well defended for WWI warfare,

not German blitzkrieg

Profile of the

Maginot Line

Germans go through

neutral Belgium

instead of facing

Maginot Line

France

GB

France

GB

Pinned between Germans

& English Channel

French & British trapped here by Germans

English citizens use private

fishing boats to rescue troops!

Italy declares war & attacks France from South

“I only need a few thousand dead so that I can sit at the peace conference as a man who has

fought."

June 22, ‘40

German troops march

under the Arc de

Triomphe

1941

Hitler takes Greece (24

days) & Yugoslavia (11 days)

Bulgaria, Rumania, & Hungary ally with Germany

by end of ’41

N = Neutral

N

N

N

N

NEXT?

A = Ally

A

A

A

Hitler begins bombing

raids on GBBritain’s RAF more skilled than Hitler’s

Luftwaffe

Luftwaffe: 1,200 fighters & 1,300 bombers

Only 700 fighters &

1400 pilots!

RoyalAirForce

Bomb devastation in Britain

Damage to British cities

(civilians) is high

But GB won!!

GB was saved from Nazis!

Never in thefield of humanconflict was

so much owedby so many

to so few

New Prime Minister of GB Winston Churchill