1. War Plan Rainbow 5

2. Learning Objectives • Understand what prompted the concern leading to the planning of Rainbow 5

3. Prologue to War • West • Rise of Fascist powers • 1935 Hitler Repudiates terms of Treaty of Versailles • Spanish Civil War • Italian invasion of Ethiopia • East • Invasion of China • Battles of KhalkhinGol

8. War Breaks out in Europe • Invasion of Poland • Invasion of Denmark & Norway • Occupation of the Baltic States • Attack on Finland

12. 1940 • Fall of France • Vichy Regime • Japan-China Stalemate • North Africa • Middle East

13. 1941 War becomes Global • Germany Invades Russia • US Drawn into the War

15. The Japanese Plan • The eastern plan required • initial attacks on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, with carrier-based aircraft of the Combined Fleet • following this attack with • seizure of the Philippines • cutting the U.S. lines of communication by seizing Guam and Wake • The southern plans called for: • attacking Malaya and Hong Kong, and • following with attacks against • the Bismarck Archipelago, • Java and Sumatra • isolating Australia and New Zealand

17. 1942 • The Allies regroup • Battle of Coral Sea • Battle of Midway • Battle of Stalingrad • Battle of El Alamein

18. 1943 • The Allies Gain Momentum • Operation Torch • Operation Husky • Operation Avalanche • Guadalcanal • Battle of Kursk • Battle of the Atlantic

20. 1944-45 • The Axis Collapse • D-Day • Vistula–Oder Offensive • Philippines recaptured • Battle of the Bulge • Hiroshima & Nagasaki