9.3.2: Hitler's war against the USSR - TEACH-

• History
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

AGE 9. The Time of World Wars

9.3.2. Europe at War: Hitler's war against the USSR

World War 2

June 22, 1941

• Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of the Soviet Union)

June 22,

1941

Four questions you must answer when you analyze a cartoon:

1. What do you see? (elements & labels)
   
2. What do the elements symbolise?
3. What is the artist's message?
4. What is the artist's POV (point of view)?

Who is this?

one word

Who is this?

one word

What do you see at the
bottom right corner?

What do you see at
the bottom left corner?

What are Stalin and Hitler
seem to be
doing here?
(look only at this section)

Hitler stabs Stalin in the back.
What does this
act symbolise?
One word

Stalin drops his pipe.
What does it suggest that
he was smoking a pipe and
now he drops it?

What else is Stalin dropping?
And what does dropping
this document
symbolise?

What is the artist's message?

POV
To which side does the artist belong?

1. Germany + allies
2. Britain + allies
3. USSR

What is the artist's opinion about Hitler?

Word Duty

Words that are in bold print must be learned for a test. 

Words that are printed cursive in the texts, you just need to be able to understand & translate!

Operation Barbarossa: name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union

Red Army: the Soviet army

Wehrmacht: the German army

Great Patriotic War: the Russian name for World War 2

Einsatzgruppen: special death squads. Their task was to kill as many Jews and communists as possible.

scorched earth: a tactic used by the Red Army. It meant that they destroyed everything in their retreat that could not be transported, to leave nothing useful for the Germans.

WORD DUTY

World War 2

Dec 7, 1941

• Japanese attack on        Pearl Harbour 

December 7

1941

Pearl Harbour, USA

World War 2

Britain was no longer alone.

The USSR and the USA had become their allies

World War 2

Aug 1942 - Feb 1943

• Battle of Stalingrad.  Turning point of the war

Stalingrad

Stalingrad

Stalingrad

Write down the one thing from the movie that impressed / impacted you most.
Explain how / why you chose this scene / image?

Stalingrad

The RETREAT

Source B