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World War II Erupts
“Europe Erupts in War”
Learning Goals
1. Describe the cause and effect of American
isolationism during the 1930s (USH.4.8)
2. Compare and contrast President Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s world view with that of Germany’s
Adolph Hitler (USH.5.1)
3. Identify and describe key events that resulted in the
United States entry into World War II (USH.5.2)
4. Identify and describe key leaders and events during
World War II (USH.5.3)
Europe Erupts in War
Main Ideas
1. World War II Starts
2. German Forces Turn West
3. Tensions in East Asia
World War II Starts
• Appeasement
• Hitler’s Early Moves
1. Rebuilt Germany’s military
2. Takes the rest of Czechoslovakia
3. Establishes a pact with Italy
4. Signs a nonaggression pact with
the Soviet Union
Hitler Attacks Poland
• Germans launch massive
attack (Sept 1,1939)
- blitzkrieg
• France and Great Britain
(Allies) declare war (Sept.
3rd)
• by October, Poland was in
German hands
Hitler Turns Toward Western Europe
• Denmark and Norway
(April 1940)
- both countries fell with
little resistance
- improve access to Atlantic
Ocean
• Hitler turns focus to
France
• Netherlands and
Belgium fall (May 1940)
• Allied forces trapped at
Dunkirk, Belgium (June)
Hitler Turns Toward the West
• Attacks France
- Maginot Line
- Ardennes Forest
- easily overwhelmed
French, raced to Paris
• France surrenders
- occupied by Germany
(mostly)
- Vichy French
Battle of Britain
• Churchill now in charge
• Hitler planned to invade
Great Britain
• 1st step - destroy British
Royal Air Force (RAF)
- radar used by British to
inflict heavy damages
- Germans turned to bombing
London
• British stopped invasion
(late 1940)
Tensions in East Asia
• Japan expanded naval forces
- violation of Washington Naval Conference (1934)
- angers US
• Anticommunism pact with Germany (1936)
- link to European Fascism
• Fights brutal war with China (1937)
• Joins Axis in 1940
• Take control of French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos,
Cambodia) (1941)
• Hideki Tojo forces Japanese government to resign (1941)
• US unwilling to allow Japan expansion
- threatened British and American interests in the region