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Title: History Through Literature


1
History Through Literature
  • Unit 3 WWII
  • Chapter 12 War Stories Crazy Horse and Custer
    and Pegasus Bridge

2
John M. Shalikashvili
  • Father was a noble from Russia who moved to
    Georgia immigrated to the US
  • Only foreign born person to reach the rank of 4
    star General in US
  • Was Joint Chief of Staff for Clinton from
    1993-1997
  • Student of Ambrose
  • Went to Peoria High School and attended Bradley
    University
  • Fought in Vietnam with honor

3
Ronald Reagan
  • Believed in less government, states rights, and a
    strong military
  • Forgo détente and pursued a military buildup
    against the USSR also got Saudi Arabia to
    produce more oil, driving oil prices down
    Russia lost money selling oil
  • Also attacked them ideologically
  • "the forward march of freedom and democracy will
    leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash-heap of
    history.
  • An evil empire -
  • "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace,
    if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and
    Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come
    here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate!
    Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
  • Later became friends of Gorbachev Gorbachev
    attended his funeral
  • Great leader Challenger Disaster The future
    doesn't belong to the fainthearted it belongs to
    the brave... We will never forget them, nor the
    last time we saw them, this morning, as they
    prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and
    'slipped the surly bonds of Earth' to 'touch the
    face of God
  • "I know in my heart that man is good, that what
    is right will always eventually triumph and that
    there is purpose and worth to each and every
    life."

4
Pegasus Bridge
  • British airborne needed to take it on D-Day to
    stop a German counter attack.
  • Named Pegasus after the Pegasus on British
    Airborne soldiers patches.
  • British Commanded by Major John Howard and the
    Germans by Hans von Luck

5
Erwin Rommel
  • Highly decorated WWI officer
  • Led the Ghost Division into Poland where are
    they?
  • Became the Desert Fox fighting in Africa with the
    Afrikacorps. great tactics
  • Later in charge of defending France from Allied
    invasion (D-Day)
  • Tried to help assassinate Hitler given a choice
    committed suicide.

6
German Soldier
  • Difference between the Waffen SS and the Wermacht
  • Waffen SS part of the Nazis atrocities
  • Wermacht (home defense) the old German army
  • Tenacious, bold, comrades, and loyal
  • Wermacht was responsible for some atrocities in
    Poland in 1939 most of the senior leadership
    was anti-Nazi.
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