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Section 1 Hitlers Lightning War

Nonaggression pact blitzkrieg

Charles de Gaulle
Battle of Britain

Winston Churchill
Erwin Rommel

Atlantic Charter
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Setting the Stage

1. 2. 3. 4.
Hitler Grabs New Territories Rhineland Austria Czechoslovakia Now he demands the Polish Corridor!

Germany Sparks a New War

Nonaggression Pact 1. Germany and Soviet
Union agree to divide Poland

2. Soviet Union could

take over Finland and Baltic nations (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia)

Germanys Lightning Attack

September 1, 1939
invasion of Poland

France and Britain

declare war

blitzkrieg

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No such thing as Blitzkrieg

I have never used the
word Blitzkrieg, because it is a very silly word Hitler referring to the
use of the word Blitzkrieg

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Invasion of Poland
September 17 - Soviets attack eastern half of Poland. Then continues to the Baltic nations.

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Invasion of Finland
November 1 million
Soviet troops attack Finland. Finns finally surrender in March 1940.

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Phony War
Maginot Line Seigfried Line Sitzkrieg

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End of the Phony War

April 9, 1940 Germany invades
Denmark and Norway

Build military bases on

coast in preparation for an attack on Britain

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Fall of France
May 1940 Germany invades Netherlands,
Belgium, Luxembourg (Low Countries)

Attack through the Ardennes

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Review Questions
Explain the nonaggression pact.

What event finally

caused WWII

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Rescue at Dunkirk

Allied forces retreat to

Dunkirk, French city near Belgian border

Britain sends 850 ships

to the rescue

May 26- June 4 over

300,000 soldiers rescued

France Falls (1940)

June 14- Paris

captured

June 22- France

surrenders

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Fall of France

Charles de Gaulle Leader of the Free French Forces

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Vichy France

Battle of Britain
Winston Churchill prime
minister of Britain

We shall never surrender

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Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
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June 4, 1940

Winston Churchill Speech

Battle of Britain II

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Battle of Britain III

British Royal Air Force (RAF)

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Battle of Britain IV
1940 Luftwaffe attacks Sept. 7, 1940 cities such
as London are bombed daily

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Battle of Britain V

Germany continues daily

raids until May 10, 1941

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Axis Forces Attack North Africa

September 1940 Italy
attacks British controlled Egypt

Suez Canal why is the

canal important?

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Britain Strikes Back

This is a real desert fox or a Fennec fox!

Dec. 1940 Feb. 1941

British push back Italians so Germany has to interfere and help out Italy.

Afrika Corps under

command of Erwin Rommel (Desert Fox)

Germans capture Tobruk,

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Libya

North Africa Battleground

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War in the Balkans

Hitler wants to build
bases in SE Europe to launch an attack on USSR

Bulgaria, Romania,
Hungary join Axis

April 1941 Germany

invades Yugoslavia and Greece

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Hitler Invades Soviet Union

June 22, 1941
Operation Barbarossa

Scorched- earth policy Sept. 8 city of

Leningrad attacked

Russians refuse to
surrender
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Hitler Invades Soviet Union II

October 2,

1941 Moscow is attacked NO RETREAT! Germans lose 500,000 soldiers

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United States Aids Its Allies

1. 2.
1935 Neutrality Acts (remember ?) 1939 Cash n Carry March 1941 Lend-Lease Act Atlantic Charter Free trade Self-determination Sept. 4 U-boats fire on American ships
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President of the USA

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Aka FDR

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Review Questions
What was Japan doing
in China in the 1930s?

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Section 2 Japans Pacific Campaign

Yamamoto Pearl Harbor

Battle of MidwayDouglas MacArthur

Battle of Guadalcanal
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Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor

United States believes
Japanese are a threat to Philippines and Guam

Japanese attack French

Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos

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Surprise Attack II
Japanese plan attacks on
British and Dutch colonies in Southeast Asia

Admiral Yamamoto
believes that American outposts must be attacked as well
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Day Of Infamy Dec. 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor

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Day of Infamy Dec. 7, 1941

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Day of Infamy Dec. 7, 1941

Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor

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Dec. 7, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor

Photographs from
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Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor
1. 2. 3. 4.
Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? Was the United States prepared for a war with Japan? Why was Hawaii a strategic location for both the United States and Japan? What were the immediate and long-term results of the attack?

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Japanese Victories
Jan. 1942- Japanese attack
Philippines

Philippines

Manila

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Bataan Death March I

The Bataan Death March began at Mariveles on April 10, 1942. Any troops who fell behind were executed. Japanese troops beat soldiers randomly, and denied the POWs food and water for many days. One of their tortures was known as the sun treatment. The Philippines in April is very hot. Therefore, the POWs were forced to sit in the sun without any shade, helmets, or water. Anyone who dared ask for water was executed. On the rare occasion they were given any food, it was only a handful of contaminated rice. When the prisoners were allowed to sleep for a few hours at night, they were packed into enclosures so tight that they could barely move. Those who lived collapsed on the dead bodies of their comrades. For only a brief part of the march would POWs be packed into railroad cars and allowed to ride. Those who did not die in the suffocating boxcars were forced to march about seven more miles until they reached their camp. It took the POWs over a week to reach their Chapter 16 WWII Standard 10.8 destination.

Bataan Death March II

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Bataan Death March III

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Japanese Victories
East Asia for the Asiatics

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Allies Strike Back

April 1942 Doolittle
raid on Tokyo

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Allies Turn the Tide

Battle of the Coral
Sea

Midway

Airplanes take off

from aircraft carriers attack ships

Allies stop Japans

southward advance
Coral Sea

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Battle of Midway
June 4, 1942 Admiral
Yamamoto attacks American airfield at Midway Island

Admiral Nimitz

commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet towards the Allies!

Turned the tide of the war

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An Allied Offensive
General Douglas
MacArthur

In war there is no substitute for victory.

island-hop strategy
Attacking the weaker islands
first then attack the stronger islands.

I shall return.
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Allied Offensive
Battle of Guadalcanal
Aug. 1942

Japanese attempt to
build airbase on the island

Island of Death

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Section 3 The Holocaust

the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime

Ghettoes Final Solution

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genocide

Holocaust

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Star of David

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Section 4 Allied Victory

Dwight Eisenhower Battle of Stalingrad D-day Battle of the Bulge
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kamikaze

Setting the Stage

Dec. 22, 1941- Churchill and Roosevelt meet at the
White House

Stalin wants Allies to open a second front in Western

Europe. Why?

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Tide Turns on Two Fronts

North Africa Campaign Gen. Montgomery Oct. 23, 1942 Battle of El Alamein Axis powers retreat to the west
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Operation Torch 1. Nov. 8, 1942

100,000 troops land in Morocco led by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower 2. Africa Korps crushed in May, 1943

Operation Torch

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Battle for Stalingrad

1. August 23, 19422. Nov. 19, 1942Luftwaffe begins nightly bombings Soviets counterattack and surround German soldiers Germans surrender
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3. Feb.2, 1943- 90,000

Invasion of Italy
1. 2. 3. 4.
July 10, 1943 Allies land on Sicily July 25 King Victor Emmanuel has Mussolini arrested Sept. 3 Italy surrenders June 4, 1944 Allies enter Rome

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Leningrad Moscow

Stalingrad Normandy

Sicily

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Japanese Internment Camps

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Victory in Europe

D-Day Invasion (Operation Overlord) General Dwight Eisenhower in command June 6, 1944 British, American, French, Canadian soldiers

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D-Day
America and its allies
invade Western Europe Starting in Normandy,
France

Will take back France

and other western European countries back from Germany.
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Operation Overlord

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Battle of the Bulge

Germany has to fight on 2 fronts Germany decides to counterattack in the West They catch American soldiers off guard and are
initially winning the battle, but the US eventually fight back the Germans

Germanys last stand and can no longer replace the

soldiers and supplies lost in the battle.
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Germanys Unconditional Surrender

By April 1945 Soviets had
surrounded capital city of Berlin

American, French, British April 30, Hitler commits

suicide

soldiers arriving from the west

May 7, 1945 Eisenhower

accepts unconditional surrender of Germany

May 9 V-E Day

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Victory in the Pacific

Oct. 23, 1944 Battle of
Leyte Gulf
Philippines

Japanese Navy
destroyed

kamikazes

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Victory in Pacific II
March June 1945
Americans capture islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa

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Japanese Surrender
Manhattan Project led to development of atomic
bomb

1st atomic bomb tested on July 16, 1945 Aug. 6 President Truman decided to drop bomb on
Hiroshima

Aug. 9 another bomb dropped on Nagasaki

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 Nuremberg Trials
Nazi leaders charged
with waging a war of aggression

Charged with Crimes

against humanity

Many Nazi leaders

sentenced to death
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Postwar Japan
Demilitarization
Disbanding the armed
forces of Japan

Democratization
Process of creating a
government elected by the people (democracy)

No more emperor
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