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Chapter 24 Section 2 and
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Mr. Love
Peace in our Time
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In February 1938, Adolf
Hitler threatened to invade
Austria unless Austrian
Nazis were given important
government posts. In
March 1938, Hitler
announced the
__________, or unification,
of Austria and Germany.
Anschluss
Hitler also claimed the
_____________, an area of
Czechoslovakia with a large
German speaking
population. The Czechs
strongly resisted Germany’s
demand for the same
answer.
Sudetenland
Peace in our Time
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France, __________, and
Britain threatened to fight
Germany if it attacked
Czechoslovakia.
USSR
At the Munich Conference
on September 29, 1938,
Britain and France, hoping
to prevent another world
war, agreed to Hitler’s
demands in a policy known
as ______________.
Appeasement
In March 1939, _________
sent troops into
Czechoslovakia, bringing
the Czech lands under
German control.
Germany
Peace in our Time
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Hitler demanded the return
of _________-Poland’s
Baltic Seaport. He also
wanted a highway and
railroad across Poland. The
demands convinced the
British and the French that
Appeasement had failed.
Danzig
In May of 1939, Hitler
ordered the invasion of
_________ by the German
army.
Poland
On August 23, 1939,
Germany and the USSR
signed a ___________
treaty, with a secret
agreement to divide Poland.
Nonaggression
The War Begins
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On September 1, 1939,
Germany and the USSR invaded
Poland. Two days later
________ and ________
declared war on Germanystarting WWII.
France; Britain
The Germans used a
__________, or lightening war,
to attack Poland. The Polish
army was defeated by October
5.
Blitzkrieg
On April 9, 1940 the German
army attacked ________ and
________. Within a month,
Germany overtook both
countries.
Norway; Denmark
After WWI, the French built a
line of concrete bunkers and
fortifications called the
_________ _________ along
the German border.
Maginot Line
The War Begins
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When Hitler decided to attack
__________, he went around
the Maginot Line by invading
the Netherlands, Belgium and
Luxembourg. The British and
French Forces went into
Belgium, becoming trapped by
German forces.
France
By June 4th, about 338,000
British and French troops had
evacuated Belgium through the
French port of __________ and
across the English Channel,
using ships of all sizes.
Dunkirk
On June 22, 1940, _________
surrendered to the Germans.
Germany installed a puppet
government in ____________.
France
Britain remains Defiant
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Hitler thought that ________
would negotiate peace after
France surrendered.
Britain
England’s prime minister,
________ __________ delivered
a defiant speech that rallied the
British people and alerted the
United States to the Britain’s
plight.
Winston Churchill
To invade Britain, Germany had to
defeat the British Air Force. In
the Battle of _________, the
German air force, the Luftwaffe,
launched an all out air battle to
destroy the British Royal Air
Force. The British responded by
bombing Berlin in Germany.
Britain
Brtain Remains Defiant
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The Royal Air Force
was greatly
outnumbered by the
___________, but
the British had radar
stations and were
able to detect
incoming German
aircraft and intercept
them.
Luftwaffe
Section 3
Nazi Persecution of the Jews
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The Nazis killed nearly 6
million Jews and millions of
other people during the
__________.
Holocaust
In September 1935, the
_________ _________took
citizenship away from Jewish
Germans and banned
marriage between Jews and
other Germans. Nearly half of
all German Jews became
jobless.
Nuremberg Laws
On November 9, 1938, antiJewish violence erupted
throughout Germany and
Austria known as
_____________, or “night of
broken glass”. Ninety Jews
were killed and thousands of
Jewish businesses were
destroyed.
Kristallnacht
NAZI persecution of the Jews
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Between 1933 and
the beginning of
WWII in 1939, about
350,000 Jews
escaped NaziControlled Germany.
Many emigrated to
________. Millions
of Jews; however,
could not get visas to
move from Nazi
controlled Europe.
America
The Final Solution
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In January of
1942, Nazi
leaders met at the
___________
Conference to
decide the “final
solution” of the
Jews and other
“undesirables”.
Wannsee
The Final Solution
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The plan was to take them
to ___ ____ - detention
centers where healthy
individuals worked as slave
laborers.
Concentration camps
The elderly, the sick and
young children were sent to
_____ ____ to be killed in
large gas chambers.
Extermination camps
In only a few years the
Nazis virtually obliterated
________ culture from all
lands dominated by the
Nazis.
Jewish
Deportation Routes