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The AXIS Strategy War Around the Globe
Italy, Germany & Japan define their targets
Hitler Changes Tactics
• After Battle of Britain: – Hitler turns his attention east– Begins in the Balkans (April 1941)
• June 1941 invades Soviet Union– Violates non-aggression pact
Critical Thinking!
Operation Barbarossa
• Hitler targets Leningrad & Moscow– June 1941
• By September Germans surrounded Leningrad – Over 1 million Russians died
• By December outside of Moscow – Winter proved fatal for Germany as it did for Napoleon
Italy Pursues North Africa
• Mussolini’s goal is to seize British controlled Egypt
• Egypt’s Suez Canal key to reaching Oil Fields
• Italy begins in Libya and moves to Egypt
Egypt & the Suez Canal:
Access to Middle East & Oil
LibyaEgypt
Italy performs poorly
Germans come to rescue
Egypt
Japan
• Japan was overcrowded and needed raw materials
• Japan was slowly building a Pacific Empire