新视野大学英语课件_Book2－10Reports on Britain Under the Bombs.pptVIP

Unit 8 Section AReports on Britain Under the Bombs Background information Text structure analysis Summary of the passage Grammar Language points Difficult sentences translation Writing skills After-reading discussion World War II : World War II, also called the Second World War, was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939-1945. The principal parties were the Axis powers(轴心国) — Germany, Italy, and Japan — and the Allies(同盟国) — France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and China. The war was in many respects a continuation of the conflicts left unsettled by World War I. The 40-50 million deaths in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict as well as the largest war in history. Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) : Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) made media history beginning in the late 1920s. William Paley put money into the Columbia Broadcasting System, which was then a small, struggling radio network, in 1928. In 1974 it adopted the name CBS, Inc. In 1995 CBS, Inc. was bought by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, which changed the name in 1997 to the CBS Corporation. The main offices are in New York City.? Home Guard Home Guard is usually a military organization of citizens with limited military training for emergency service, usually for local defense. During World War II the Home Guard was established in the U.K. Check out the web site at .uk for more detailed information about Home Guard in the U.K. Marshal Goering Marshal Goering was born in Bavaria. Trained for an army career, Goering received his assignment in 1912 and served with distinction during World War I. Later, Goering met Adolf Hitler and joined the small National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party in 1922. Since then, Goering worked tirelessly as Hitler’s most loyal supporter. He was Reich official for air fighters and head of the newly developed Luftwaffe (German air for