高级英语第一册Unit5_Speech_on_Hitler’s_Invasion_of_the_U.S.S.R..ppt

Book One Lesson Five Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of the U.S.S.R. Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of the U.S.S.R. In March 1939, talks with the Soviet Union on possible cooperation against Fascist Germany. Britain under Chamberlain and France under Daladier a policy of appeasement. the talks were broken off. the Soviet Union signed the non-aggression pact with Hitler’s Germany on August 23, 1939. On Sept. 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland. On Sept. 17, Soviet troops crossed the border and moved into Poland The Russo-Finnish war began on Nov. 1, 1939 and ended in March 1940. The Finns sued for peace and ceded an area of over16,000 sm to the Soviet Union. In June 1940, Soviet troops occupied the three Baltic states （拉脱维亚，爱沙尼亚，立陶宛，芬兰）and part of Rumania. British intelligence officers German coding machine able to decipher all German coded messages. So on June 6，a warning to the Soviet Union On June 20, Churchill worked on a speech Churchill polished the text on June 22, 1941 in his Elizabethan manor at Chequers. Full name: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) His names testify to the richness of his historic inheritance: Winston, after the Royalist family with whom the Churchill married before the English Civil War; Leonard, after his remarkable grandfather, Leonard Jerome of New York; Spencer, the married name of a daughter of the 1st duke of Marlborough, from whom the family descended; Churchill, the family name of the 1st duke, which his descendents resumed after the Battle of Waterloo. Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Winston Churchill was born on Nov. 30,1874. He was the eldest son in the family. He went to Harrow in 1888 and then to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He was neither successful nor happy at school. (Other famous public schools in England are Eton, Winchester, Charterhouse, Rugby etc.) Facts about Churchill In school Churchill was at the bottom of his class. Nothing showed that he would become “the largest hu