Chapter 16 Section 2 War In Europe
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Chapter 16 Section 2
War In Europe
Main Idea:
Using the sudden mass attack
called blitzkrieg, Germany
invaded and quickly conquered
many European countries.
Austria and Czechoslovakia Fall
Nov 5, 1937 Hitler met w/ military
advisors
Declared that to grow and prosper
Germany needed the land of the
neighbors
Hitler’s 1st target =Austria
March 12, 1938 German troops marched
into Austria unopposed
Hitler’s 2nd target Czechoslovakia
Bargaining for the Sudetenland
Hitler
said the Czechs were abusing
the Sudeten Germans
Great Britain and France promised to
protect Czechoslovakia
Hitler met with French premier
Edouard Daladier and British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain
He stated that this would be his “last
territorial demand”
To avoid war they believed him and
signed the Munich Agreement
Munich Agreement
To avoid war France and Britain
believed Hitler and signed the
Munich Agreement
This turned the Sudetenland over to
Germany
Winston Churchill said that Britain
and France adopted the policy of:
Appeasement-giving up principles
to pacify an aggressor
The German Offensive Begins
After
Hitler conquered Czechoslovakia he
turned to Germany’s eastern neighbor
POLAND
An attack on Poland would
Bring
Germany in conflict w/ the Soviet
Union
Provoke declaration of war from Britain and
France (promised military aid to Poland)
Result would be fighting a 2 front war
Nonaggression Pact
Stalin
surprised everyone by
signing a nonaggression pact
with Hitler
Fascist Germany and
Communist Russia committed to
never attack each other
Also signed a secret pact to
split up Poland
BLITZKRIEG IN POLAND
Blitzkrieg (lightning war)- Germany’s
new military strategy
Air force rained bombs over military
bases, airfields, railroads and cities
Made use of tanks and powerful aircraft
September 3 (2 days after invasion)
Britain and France declared war on
Germany
WWII had officially begun!
THE PHONY WAR
After
the fall of Poland French and
British troops held the Maginot Line
(along France’s eastern border)
Hitler sent Generals through the
Ardennes (region of wooded area) in
northwest France
Italy entered the war on the side of
the Germany and defeated France
The Battle of Britain
Summer
of 1940
Germany could not compete with
Britain’s navy
Germany launched an air war over
Britain
On a single day (August 15th) about
2,000 German planes attacked Britain
Every night for 2 months bombers
pounded London
RAF (Britain’s Royal Air Force)
RAF fought back against
Germans
Used radar to detect and plot
the flight paths of German
planes
RAF shot down over 185
German planes
Hitler called off the attack
indefinitely