9.3B: Hitler's war against the USSR - TEACH-

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AGE 9. The Time of World Wars

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

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

June 22,

1941

Stalingrad

Stalingrad

Stalingrad

Stalingrad

The RETREAT

December 7

1941

Pearl Harbour, USA

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