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Germany
Advances
The fall of Poland, the Low Countries and
France
Appeasement
• During the 1930s the Allies had “appeased”
Germany.
• Nazi Germany began to build up her army, airforce
and navy again.
• Germany also began to take land they thought
they were entitled to.
• Allies did not punish Germany for breaking the terms
of Treaty of Versailles nor for their actions towards
Czechoslovakia.
• This allied policy is known as ‘appeasement’.
Adolf Hitler orders the German Army into
Austria.
12 March
1938
Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler sign the
Munich Agreement.
29 Sept, 1938
Joseph Goebbels organizes Crystal Night
(Krystallnacht).
9 Nov 1938
The German Army invades Czechoslovakia.
15 March
1939
Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler sign the NaziSoviet Pact.
23 Aug 1939
The German Army invades Poland.
1 Sept 1939
Britain declares war on Germany
3 Sept 1939
Nazi-Soviet
Non-Aggression
Pact 1939
Russia secretly agrees not
to declare war on Germany
if Germany invades Poland
(in return for Polish land)
Declaration of War
• Germany invaded Poland 1 Sept 1939
• Allies told Germany to withdraw
• When they did not, the Allies declared war on 3
Sept 1939
Blitzkrieg
• Literally means
“Lightning War
• It is a concentrated coordinated assault
based on
overwhelming force
and speed by planes,
tanks, artillery and
infantry.
• Blitzkrieg tactics works
best in small areas
Invasion of France and the
Low Countries
• Germany launched their attacks on 10 May 1940.
• Belgium and the Netherlands surrendered in May
1940 and France surrendered in June 1940.
• The Germans again used Blitzkrieg tactics
successfully.
Invasion of
Poland –
Blitzkrieg
Tactics
German bombing of Poland
Leah Hammerstein Silverstein describes the bombing of Praga and Warsaw (Clip):
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_oi.php?ModuleId=10005437&MediaId=1175
Invasion of Poland
Destruction in Warsaw in 1939 as a result of Blitzkrieg
German troops parading after capturing Poland
Invasion of Poland
Hitler reviewing the troops after capturing Poland Oct 5, 1939
Photo of Warsaw,
May 1940
Invasion of the Low Countries
May 1940
Destruction of Rotterdam
Clip of German paratroopers dropping into Rotterdam
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_fi.php?ModuleId=10005181&MediaId=196
Germany invades France
Footage of the Invasion of France:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_fi.php?MediaId=195
Speer, Hitler and Breker in
Paris after Germany
defeated France in
June,1940.