Download 24-2: War in Europe

24-2: War in Europe
1936
• Hitler sends troops to the Rhineland
(buffer zone between Germany and
France)
• Considered a violation of the Treaty of
Versailles and an act of war
September 1938: Neville Chamberlain
signs the Munich Pact?
• Munich Pact: Great
Britain and France
appease Hitler by
allowing Germany to
take the Sudetenland
• In return Hitler agrees
that this would be his
last territorial demand
Winston Churchill Opposes the
Munich Pact
• Churchill's remark:
"You were given the
choice between war
and dishonor. You
chose dishonor and
you will have war."
• Churchill did not
believe that Great
Britain should pacify
an aggressor like
Hitler in order to
keep the peace =
appeasement
3. Germany and the USSR
sign nonaggression pact
• August 1939:
Germany and the
USSR agree not to
fight each other =
nonaggression pact
• Germany and the
USSR enter into a
secret agreement to
invade Poland and
divide the country
between them.
4. 1939 Poland /France and Great
Britain Responds.
• September 1939:
Germany invades
Poland. Meanwhile
USSR invades
Poland from the East.
Poland is divided
between the USSR
and Germany, Poland
ceases to exist
• Great Britain and
France declare war
on Germany/World
War II has begun
An armored column of Third
Reich forces streams into Poland
in September 1939, igniting the
war in Europe.
ON BACK OF PAPER:
• Lightning war strategy
used by Germany
against Poland in
1939
• …and used against
Norway, Demark,
Netherlands, Belgium,
Luxembourg and
France in the spring
of 1940.
• Germany uses tanks
and planes to take the
enemy by surprise
and crush them
quickly
SURRENDER TERMS OFFERED
TO FRANCE
• Germany occupies
the Northern Part
of France
• A Nazi-controlled
puppet
government is set
up at Vichy in
Southern France
• On Back of Paper: Charles
de Gaulle: The French
general sets up a French
government in exile in
England. He promises to
free France from the Nazis.
• Summer 1940: Hitler
begins air raids over
England as a first step
toward invading Great
Britain
• The Germans bomb
London night after night
in August of 1940
• The RAF successfully
defends Britain against
these attacks using the
new technology of radar
to locate and shoot down
hundreds of German
planes
• Hitler is forced to call off
the invasion of Britain
The Battle of Britain