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The Axis Advances Chapter 14.2 The Axis Attacks • • • • Blitzkrieg-lightning war Fast moving tanks and airpower Luftwaffe-German Air Force Bombed- airfield,factories, towns and cities • Tanks and troops advance rapidly • Soviets move west capturing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania • Western Powers -helpless The Miracle at Dunkirk • April 1940 Hitler takes Norway and Denmark pursuing Belgium and the Netherlands • British are trapped on the beach • Every British boat , ship , canoe, and kayak comes to save the 300,000 troops France falls • • • • • French surrender June 22, 1940 Germans set up Vichy Government Collaborator gov’t Free French escape to Britain DeGualle-Free French leaders Operation Sea Lion • • • • • German invasion of Britain Bombing of Britian for 57 days Destroying nonmilitary targets British stand fast Battle of Britain RAF Africa and the Balkans • Axis control North Africa • Rommel –Desert Fox • Eastern Europe- Italy attacks Greece and Yugoslavia • Bulgaria and Hungary join Axis Germany Invades the Soviet Union • Nonaggression pact broken • Soviets lose 2.5 million troops • Soviets retreat burning everything for Germans to take • Soviet winter destroys German troops Siege on Stalingard • 1 million civilians die • Stalingrad did not fall • British and Soviets unite against Germans Life Under Nazi and Japanese Occupation • Hitler’s “New Order” • Master Race • Theft of art, factories, property, and resources • Jews-sent to Concentration Camps • • • • • • The Nazis commit genocide against Jews Enemies of the state Homosexuals Gypsies Disabled Final Solution • Kill all Jews • Holocaust -6 million dead • Concentration camps –Treblinka Japans Brutal Conquest • Escape European colonial rule • Invade and conquer China, Philippines, Malaysia, Indochina • Take, kill, and rape Japan Attack the US • US neutral on war • FDR wants to help allies • Lend Lease Act- loan of military equipment to Allies • US bans oil, steel, and raw materials to Japan Attack on Pearl Harbor • Dec 7, 1941 Japan attacks at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii • FDR-”A day that will live in infamy” • US declares war on Japan • WWII begins
