• It was a very important battle
• In the end 隆美尔 lost this fight so that germen could not control the Suez canal(苏伊士运河）or the oilfield in the Middle East
• Japan declared war on China in 1931. • On July 7th,1937, Japan began an all-out
attack on China.
Jiang’s speach at LuShan
我们知道全国应战以后之局势， 就只有牺牲到底，无丝毫侥幸 求免之理。如果战端一开，那 就是地无分南北，年无分老幼， 无论何人，皆有守土抗战之责， 皆应抱定牺牲一切之决心。
and suffering.
温斯顿·伦纳德·斯宾塞·丘吉尔
Air battle of Britain
• Germanys invasion of Britain could not succeed if the Luftwaffe did not have supremacy in the air. On 14th August 1940 the Luftwaffe launched an attack on British Bomber Command. In two weeks of air fighting, one quarter of British pilots were killed or badly injured.
Eastern to attack the Soviet union, he is not understand Napoleon's lesson. He just chose to ignore the facts.
They used ‘Lightening War’ again and divided into 3 groups. But they lost some importint battle. So they failed in the end.
The war went on blood Victory came from the blood
war on Germany and the other Axis powers.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most
grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle
——蒋中正
• Chinese people got furious. The connotation of home and nation was deeply carved in their brave heart.
• Then the Japanese army perceived that the power of Chinese people was out of their imagine, they failed.
On 1st September 1939 Germany invaded Poland. They used a new type of warfare called ‘Blitzkrieg’ or ‘Lightening War’. This is a war when tanks and planes are used to knock out the defences so that the defending country is easier to conquer. Two days after this happened; Britain and France declared
• In November of 1942,Montgomery was appoited
to be the leader of the troops in northern Africa to fight against the germany army led by 隆美尔, who was called ‘THE FOX OF DESERT’(沙漠之狐）