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• May 1, 2013
•RAW
• What is
appeasement?
•AIM 87
• HELLO WWII!
1939-1945
•How did
WWII in
Europe
begin?
• May 1, 2013
•RAW
• Which country
did Germany
invade to start
WW II?
•AIM 87
• How did
America Feel
about WWII
when it began
in Europe.
I.
America and the War.
• Americans wishing to avoid
any future conflict in Europe
• push Congress to pass a series
of Neutrality Acts.
• U.S is NOT allowed to sell
weapons to any nation at war!
• England and France are
powerless to stop Hitler’s
powerful military machine.
• England Stands Alone in
1940
• (57 consecutive nights London
was bombed)
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II. The Election of 1940
• FDR(D)
• Wendell Wilkie(R)
• FDR runs for an
unprecedented third term.
I. World War II begins
• Japan, Germany, & Italy form
the ROME-BERLIN-TOKYO
Axis
• agreed not to stop each others
aggression into other
nations/territories
• Appeasement had failed
• On September 1st 1939
Hitler’s German armies
invaded Poland.
• Two days later England and
France declared war on
Germany.
• WWII had begun!
II. Nazi Offensives (Blitzkrieg)
• by 1940, Nazi Germany overran Poland,
Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and
Belgium
• Allies (French & British) cannot compete
with Nazi Blitz
• Allies trapped at Dunkirk, France along
the English Channel
• Hitler’s mistake was to not attack -Instead he attacked/captured Paris
• 300,000 Allied soldiers escaped to England
•“Victory at all costs, victory in spite
of all terror, victory however long and
hard the road may be; for without
victory there is no survival.”
• “Let us therefore brace ourselves
to our duty,and so bear ourselves
that if the British Commonwealth
and its Empire lasts for a thousand
years, men will still say, 'This was
their finest hour.' “
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• "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 the 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."
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• “An appeaser is one who
feeds a crocodile, hoping it
will eat him last. “
II. Lend Lease
• Allow countries to
“borrow”needed military
supplies.
• In return the U.S. would
get to lease English military
bases for 99 years.
• FDR gets around the
Neutrality Acts by
Lending
supplies to
England and Russia.
• “we must become the
great arsenal of
Democracy.” -FDR
• Hitler’s plans for invading Great Britain
depended on air supremacy over the English
Channel
• Head of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Hermann Goering began to bomb England
day & night August 1940 (57 consecutive
nights London was bombed)
• The R.A.F. (Royal Air Force) saved England
Germany never landed on Britain
• Spring 1941, GB alone against Nazi
Germany
• Hitler looks east to the Russians
• "I am fond of pigs. Dogs
look up to us. Cats look
down. Pigs treat us as
equals.”
• April 30, 2002
• RAW
• Why didn’t
anyone
stop
Hitler?
•AIM 95
•WAR!
• May 1, 2002
• RAW
• How did most
Americans
feel about
the war in
Europe when
it began?
•AIM
• How did
FDR manage
to help
England?
• May 10, 2011
•RAW
• What was
Blitzkrieg?
•AIM 76
• What were
the
Neutrality
Acts?