Chapter 16

World War Looms

1931-1941
Section 2
War in Europe
Pages 536-541
Section 2: War in Europe A Sequence of Events

March 1938
Germany invades
Austria.
September 1938
Munich Pact is signed
by Germany, France,
and Britain.
Section 2: War in Europe A Sequence of Events

? Why did Neville
Chamberlain sign
the Munich Pact?
To avoid war.
Why did Winston
Churchill oppose the
pact?
The pact was
dishonorable and
wouldnt prevent war.
Section 2: War in Europe A Sequence of Events

March 1939
Germany invades
Czechoslovakia.
August 1939
Germany and USSR
sign nonaggression
pact and secret
agreement.
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? What did Germany
and the USSR
agree to in their
accords?
Not to fight each other
To divide Poland
between them
September 1939
Germany invades
Poland.

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? What happened to
Poland as a result of
the invasion?
Poland was divided between
Germany and the USSR
The country ceased to exist

? How did Britain
and France
respond to it?
Britain and France
declared war Germany
Section 2: War in Europe A Sequence of Events

November 1939
USSR invades
Finland.
Spring 1940
Germany invades Norway,
Denmark, the Netherlands,
Belgium, and Luxembourg.
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June 1940
France surrenders to
Germany.
? What were the
surrender terms
offered to
France?

Germany occupied the
northern part of France
A Nazi-controlled
puppet government was
set up at Vichy in
Southern France.
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Summer 1940
USSR overruns Baltic
states.
Summer 1940
Battle of Britain begins.
Section 2: War in Europe A Sequence of Events

? What type of battle
was the Battle of
Britain?
Air war
? Why was Englands
victory so
important?
A British victory forced
Hitler to call off the
invasion of Britain
indefinitely.
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? Who was
Charles de
Gaulle?



? Define the
following-
nonaggression
pact
blitzkrieg

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Define the
following-
appeasement

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Peace For Our Time http://library.byu.edu/ ~rdh/ eurodocs/ uk/ peace.html
Text of Neville Chamberlain's historic statement after the Munich conference in September
1938

Chronology of International Events, March 1938 to December 1941
http://metalab.unc.edu/ pub/ academic/ history/ marshall/ military/ wwii/ chrono_1938-
41.txt
Detailed time line of events preceding the U.S. entry into World War II, issued by the U.S.
Department of State in 1941

Winston Churchillhttp://www.winstonchurchill.org/
Account of Churchill's life, with links to his most famous speeches and quotations.

The Allies at War: Three Titans http://www.bbc.co.uk/ history/ war/ wwtwo/
allies_at_war_01.shtml
Chronicles the tense relationship between the World War II leader of the French
government in exile, Charles de Gaulle, and the allied leaders who helped bring him to
power in France, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The Munich Crisis http://www.otr.com/ munich.html
Account of the German provocations that led to talks in Munich, Germany, among the major
European powers, and the eventual German occupation of Czechoslovakia.

Neville Chamberlain http://www.bbc.co.uk/ history/ historic_figures/
chamberlain_arthur_neville.shtml
Brief biography of the British prime minister who first negotiated with Adolf Hitler and later
declared war on Germany, only to be driven from power at home. Includes links to analysis
of Chamberlain's policy of appeasement and the start of World War II.

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