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Consul General Messersmith reported further that a martial spirit was being developed in Germany; that
everywhere people were seen drilling, including children from the age of five or six to persons well into
middle age; that a psychology was being developed that whole world was against Germany, which was
defenseless before the world; that people were being trained against gas and airplane attacks; and that the
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Warm-Up
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WWII.
Who do you feel was responsible for causing this
war? Why?
• 1 paragraph
Today’s Agenda
• Video Clip / Class Discussion
• Warm – Up / Class Discussion
• FN: Hitler's Lightning War
• HW:
– Catch up on study guide 1-20
Chapter 14, Section 2
Hitler’s Lightning
War
Blitzkrieg
Today’s Standard
• 10.8 Students analyze the causes and
consequences of World War II.
3. Identify and disc. the way WWII started, & the
major turning points of the war, the principal
theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, w/
emphasis on the importance of geographic factors.
Essential Question
Why did WWII start, where did the early part of the
War take place (all areas) and what was the first
major turning point?
Axis
Vs.
• Germany
–
Adolf Hitler
• Italy
–
Benito Mussolini
• Japan
–
–
Emperor Hirohito (puppet)
General Tojo (Togo)
(puppet master)
Allies
• Great Britain – Winston Churchill
• France
– Charles de Gaulle
• Soviet Union
•
(USSR)
– Joseph Stalin
Germany Sparks New European War
10-year nonaggression pact
with Stalin (U.S.S.R.) – Aug.
23, 1939
Important b/c Hitler can now
safely attack Poland
I. Germany Sparks New European War
B. Blitzkrieg (lightening
War) invasion of
Poland – Sept. 1,
1939.
Germany Sparks New European War
• Sept. 3, Britain &
France declare war
• “Phony War” – 7
month calm
• Germany invades
• Denmark &
Norway in April
1940; both
surrender
One People,
One Empire,
One Leader!
IThe Battle for France
• Germany sweeps through
Holland, Belgium, &
Luxembourg
• France invaded - May 1940
– Miracle of Dunkirk –
British ships rescue
300,000 soldiers
• Italy joins Germany &
declares war on France &
Britain - June 10
• France surrenders - June 22
– Renamed Vichy France
– Great Britain only country left
opposing Germany
Europe 1942
Axis Powers
Appeasement
G.B.
France
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a 2nd
Color
Hitler’s gains
Allied Powers
Operation Sea
Lion
The Battle of Britain:
Summer 1940 – May 10, 1941
• Britain stands alone
against Nazis
– Prime Minister
Winston Churchill
– “My nation will
never give in”
• RAF’s 2,900 planes
to Nazis 4,500
The Battle of Britain Con’t
• Sept. cities are bombed
(London)
• Britain’s advantages:
radar & Enigma
• Hitler calls off attacks
• Allies learn: Hitler’s
advances could be
blocked
U.S. Isolationism
• United States
desire to avoid ties
with other
countries
• FDR passes LendLease program to
sell allies
weapons/supplies
Mediterranean Fighting
• Germany & Italy
attack N. Africa
– They want Oil &
Egypt (British)
Mediterranean Fighting
• Brits fight well–
130,000 Italian
POW’s
• Erwin Rommel’s
Afrika Korps takes
Tobruk
– Fought from
March 1941 to
Jan. 1942
– Staggering defeat
for British
G.B.
France
Germany
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The Eastern Front
• Hitler takes
Balkans in
April 1941–
Yugoslavia
& Greece
The Eastern Front
• Hitler invades
U.S.S.R. – June
1941
• Hitler penetrates
500 miles while
Soviets “slash &
burn”
G.B.
France
Germany
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The Eastern Front
• Leningrad &
Moscow (and
winter
weather) repel
Nazis
– 1 million
Russians die
– 500,000
German
soldiers lost