Download September 1940

Bellringer
• SOL Challenge
• BJOTD: How do you make a tissue
dance?
– Suggested by Sam King
World War II: 1939-1941
Propaganda during the War
• Propaganda: information or material
spread to advance a cause or hurt an
opponent’s cause
• Used to stir up support for the war effort
– Rationing
– War bonds
– Unity against a common enemy
– Encourage civilians to work longer or harder
• Often portrayed the enemy in derogatory
ways and your side
Review
• Italy, Germany, and Japan have formed
the Axis Powers
• Italy has taken Ethiopia
– League of Nations did nothing
• Germany has taken the Sudetenland,
Austria, and the Rhineland
– British and French following policy of
appeasement
• What next?
September 1, 1939—the
Germans Invade Poland
• Beginning of WWII
• Accomplished by the use of the “blitzkrieg”
tactic
– “lightning war”
– Planes rain bombs down at the same time as
slower troops and tanks cross the border—the
goal was to take the enemy by surprise
• Even though France and England declare
war against Germany on September 3, 1939
Poland falls within 3 weeks
Other Moves in
Scandinavia/Poland
• After Germany took over Poland, the USSR
moves into the Western half of the country and
takes control.
• Hitler takes control of Denmark and Norway
by April 9, 1940
May of 1940—the Invasion of
France
• Germans sent their forces through the
Ardennes, around the Maginot Line
– Maginot Line: a line of defenses built by the
French along their border to keep the
Germans out
May 26th- June 4, 1940—the
Evacuation at Dunkirk
• Germans had trapped all the allied forces
in the north of France
– Forced Belgium to surrender to the Germans
• The allies escaped to the beaches at
Dunkirk
• Great Britain sent their entire navy to
rescue the stranded men and bring them
to Great Britain
– 338,000 men saved
June 14th, 1940—Fall of France
• June 10th: sensing a
quick end, Mussolini
joins with Hitler to
finish off France
• By June 14th, Paris falls
to the Germans
• How many countries have
now fallen to the
Germans?
September 7th, 1940-May 10th,
1941: The Battle of Britain
• After the fall of France, Great Britain is next target
for Germans
– Great Britain is led by Winston Churchill, the Prime
Minister
• Hitler’s plan: to destroy Britain’s infrastructure
through the bombing of shipping centers, air
bases, political targets, etc so that he can launch
his invasion plan
• Operation Sea Lion
– Hitler’s plan of an aerial and land invasion of Britain
• Bombing by day and night continues until May,
when Hitler, surprised by the resistance, calls off
the attacks
September 1940-april 1941:
Fights in North Africa and the
Balkans
• Mussolini tries to take
Egypt from the British in
September 1940
– British push the Italians
out by February 1941, Italy
is hurting
• Hitler moves to help Italy
and both sides go back and
forth in North Africa
• Hitler also takes over
Yugoslavia and Greece in
April of 1941
June 22, 1941: Operation
Barbarossa
• Hitler decides to break his agreement with
the USSR and invade them.
• Germans move rapidly into USSR, but the
Soviets are retreating and following a
scorched earth policy
• September 8th: Hitler loses at Leningrad
• October 2nd: Hitler goes for Moscow, but is
forced into a long siege due to the Winter
December 7th, 1941: Pearl
Harbor
• Before this, U.S. was officially neutral in WWII
• Japan wanted U.S. oil, but had been cut off by
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt due to
imperialist actions
– Decided to attack SE Asia for oil instead
• Japan planned an attack on the American fleet
stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to prevent it
from attacking Japan in retaliation for more
invasions
• On 12/7/1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
– 18 ships sunk/damaged, 2,400 Americans killed
• Congress declared war on Japan the next day
– December 11th: Germany declared war on the U.S.
WWII Cake
• Project will be due next Thursday or
Friday (WWII Test Day)
• You may work with a partner
• You must have the recipe nicely
presented, like the examples!
• WWII Chapter in Book: 16