《世界格局参考资料》二战欧洲形势图.ppt

World War II European Theater Prelude November 1942-May 1945 Eastern Task Force Western Task Force Center Task Force Montgomery Clark 1th Abn Div 15th Army Grp Alexander 15th Army Grp Alexander 1 8 8 Patton 7 5 Montgomery 8 5 Clark 15th Army Grp Alexander 1 2 21th Army Grp Montgomery 15th Army Grp Alexander Montgomery 8 15 1 2 21th Army Grp Montgomery 7 1 15th Army Grp Alexander 8 12th Army Grp Bradley 6th Army Grp Devers 5 21th Army Grp Montgomery 9 12th Army Grp Bradley 1 2 1 3 9 15th Army Grp Clark 15 8 1 15th Army Grp Clark 8 6th Army Grp Devers 21th Army Grp Montgomery 9 1 2 1 12th Army Grp Bradley 9 1 3 1 7 5 15 8 * Instructor Note: These slides contain animated objects. This presentation is intended to be viewed in “Slide Show”. Each click of the mouse will move an object, make an object appear/disappear or show an arrow. Each bulleted line in the Notes Pages correspond the sequential order of each “action” and describes that action. On some Notes Pages: Lines in RED represent Soviet Movements/Action which are provided to understand what is happening to Germany during US/UK actions. * GERMAN EXPANSION 1933 – The Nazi Party came to power in Germany (the Third Reich forms). Hitler began to rebuild the military in direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles (secretly at first, and in public by 1935 – the Western democracies do nothing). March 1936 – Germans occupied the Rhineland with troops – again violating the Treaty of Versailles and again resulting in no reaction from the Western democracies. March 1938 – Austria was annexed by the Third Reich. Sept 1938 – Munich Agreement. Britain and France agreed to Hitler’s demands to ‘free’ oppressed German people that lived within the Czech Republic. German troops occupied the Sudetenland in the first weeks of October. March 1939 – Germany seized the remainder of western Czechoslovakia. The western democracies finally realized Hitler’s true intention of conquest. The southeastern portion became the Slov