Transcript WW2 The “Good” War

WW2
The “Good” War
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Bargaining for the Sudetenland
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Neville Chamberlain
– Prime Minister of Great Britain
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How did Hitler break the
Versailles Treaty?
– Built up military
– Brought troops into Rhineland,
forbidden area serving as a
buffer zone between France and
Germany
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What did Hitler want?
– Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
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What happened?
– Munich Pact- UK and France
give land to Germany to avoid
war
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Define APPEASEMENT.
Is appeasement ALWAYS a
mistake?
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Soviet Union -Neutral
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• Define Soviet-Nazi Pact
– Peace treaty between Germany and Russia
• How did this pact benefit Germany?
– Germany was able to attack France with full power. They did not
have to fight a 2 front war with France and Russia.
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Blitzkrieg in Poland
• What German
action officially
started the war
– Attack of
Poland. UK
and France
enter war
• What is a
blitzkrieg?
– Lightning
quick attack
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Fall of France
Battle of Britain
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What was the Maginot Line?
– Heavily fortified French/German border
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What was the Ardennes?
– A forested area believed by the French to be an impossible place for the
Germans to break through into France.
– They were wrong
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What was the RAF? The Luftwaffe?
– The British airforce, the German airforce
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Why did Germany use aircraft so much?
– Britain is an island
– Britains’s navy was powerful
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What invention gave Britain an advantage?
– Radar
– http://Fall of France Image
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Battle of Britain
What was Operation Sea Lion?
-Germany’s planned invasion of Britain
What was the blitz?
-57 nights of Nazi bombing of Britain
List 5 facts about the blitz.
- Thousands died
- London seriously damaged
- Bomb shelters
- Britain refused to surrender
Why do you think Germany attacked Britain by air?
- Britain was an island.
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London pix
Holocaust
• What was kristallnacht?
– “crystal night” or night of
broken glass
– 11/9/1938- SS
attacks/vandalizes Jewish
homes, synagogues, etc.
• What was the final solution?
– Genocide-extermination of
all Jews
• Why did the Nazis try to kill
all of the Jews?
– Thought they were inferior
– They were a “scapegoat” for
the loss of WWI and
economic troubles
• Unimaginable horrors of
concentration camps and the
death toll of the Holocaust:
– Gas “showers”
– Crematoriums
– Nearly 10,000,000+ died in
the Holocaust.
Voroncov
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Pearl Harbor and Midway
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Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?
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Summarize the events of the attack in 3-4 sentences.
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Japan sent 150 ships to attack Midway Island. Huge American airfield. We destroyed 332
Japanese planes all 4 aircraft carriers, and a support ship.
What is one advantage that we had in this battle?
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Only 29 Japanese planes lost
Almost the entire Pacific fleet was destroyed
Describe the Battle of Midway.
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US stood in the way of their plans to build an empire.
We also embargoed oil to protest Japanese aggression.
They thought the attack would demoralize us.
We had broken a Japanese code and knew the attack was coming.
Why is this Battle significant?
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Avenged Pearl Harbor
Turning Point- from then on Japan was on the defensive
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Attacking the Soviet Union &The Battle of Stalingrad
• List 5 facts about the Battle of Stalingrad.
– German goal: oil fields, capture Stalingrad
– Soviets lost >1,250,000 soldiers and civilians
– German army cut from 330,000 to about 91,000
• What is one key factor that helped lead to the defeat of the Germans
in the USSR?
– The winter
– https://stalingrad pix
Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 183-B0130-0050-004
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D-DAY and the Battle of the Bulge
• What was D-Day? List 5 facts
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The day of the invasion of France.
June 6, 1944
Largest land sea operation in history
156,000 troops, 4,000 landing craft, 600 warships, 11,000 planes
• What was the main goal of D-Day?
– Attempt to break through to Germany
• What was the Battle of the Bulge?
– A German assault. A last ditch effort stop the allied advance.
– Germans seemed fairly successful
– Not really. They suffered heavy losses in infantry and weapons. It was
the end.
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Yalta & The End of the European War
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What was the Yalta Conference? Who was there?
A meeting to decide post-war Europe.
The BIG THREE: Winston Churchhill, Roosevelt, Stalin
List 2 decisions from Yalta.
Split Germany into four parts (England, France, USA, Soviets)
Stalin would allow free elections in Eastern Europe
Fall of Berlin
Berlin surrendered to Soviets May 2, 1945
What was V-E Day?
May 8
Victory in Europe day
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Island Hopping and the Bomb
• What is a kamikaze?- suicide bombers
• Describe Guadalcanal.- first offensive attack
• Describe what occurred during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
– Island 750 miles from Tokyo- part of Japan
– 7000 US soldier die
– 20,000 Japanese soldiers out of 21,000 who began
• What was the Manhattan Project?- Top Secret Project to build
Atomic Bomb
• Why did Truman drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
• hiroshima pic
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