Transcript Start of WWII

Start of WWII
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How does Europe and the League of Nations
respond to these aggressions?
Appeasement: The
Munich Agreement,
1938
(If we give Hitler a cookie,
Czechoslovakia, he will calm
down and stop invading
people!)
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
Now we have “peace in our time!” Herr
Hitler is a man we can do business with.
Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of
the Third Reich: 1939
 What is going on with this woman?
 Is she happy or sad about
Czechoslovakia being handed over to
the Germans in the Munich Agreement?
 Why is she giving the Nazi salute?
The Nazi-Soviet
Non-Aggression Pact, 1939
Foreign Ministers
von Ribbentrop & Molotov
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Notes Title: WWII Begins
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a new set of
notes on Pg.
14A
Your Axis
aggression
map will go
on 13A
Per.
Headings, key
words,
vocabulary
Notes, charts, drawings, lists,
graphic organizers, definitions,
etc…
Questions:
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Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939
First look at
the Invasion
Arrows…
What do
they tell
you?
Where is THIS
arrow coming
from?!?
A. Who is
helping the
Germans win
in Poland?
B. Why would
they do that?
Blitzkrieg [“Lightening War”]
Please do not talk at this time
• HW: Chapter 16, sec. 1
& 2- Due Thursday
• Options for processing
this information:
– STAR Notes
– Graphic Organizer on
Key Information
– Chart on Major Battles
of WWII
All Homework Documents
can be downloaded from
the web page.
Sept 9
Do ONE of the options to
the Left.
What I care about is that
you have a basic
knowledge of the major
battles of WWII, so that
you know what we are
talking about when we
start our Battles project.
What is this Blitzkrieg?
• A military strategy to
win war
• A massive
technologically
advanced attack
• Psychological warfare
• Watch the Video and
record evidence of each
of these things in your
notes…
German troops on the march through Poland
German Troops March into Warsaw
Poland
surrenders
in 28 days.
All that
TALK had
gotten the
countries of
Europe No
where at
all.
Chaos
Ensues….
The
European
Theater
What to do?
• Britain and France declare they WILL have war with
Germany if the Germans don’t withdraw Right NOW! (Who
does this sound like?)
– C. Based on Germany’s experience with countries like Britain
and France what do you think will happen?
• Germany does not withdraw. In fact, they ignore the British
and refuse to answer them.
• Britain declares war on September 3rd, 1939.
• Unfortunately Britain and France are not ready to fight.
They must raise, equip, train and position their armies.
That takes time…..
And Then…..
The Phony War:
• Not much happens between
invasion of Poland (Sept
1939) and April 1940.
• Everyone wonders if Hitler
has finally had enough
cookies.
• France re-enforces the
Maginot Line and some ships
get sink in the Atlantic.
• Then…. Lightning Strikes
again!
Hitler and MussoliniJust Good Friends
Mussolini and Hitler
• June 1940,
Italy
declares
war on
Great
Britain and
France
Blitzkrieg,
1940
April 9th - Norway
and Denmark
May 10th – Belgium
and the Netherlands
May 13th- France
Hitler, His
army trained,
experienced
and well
supplied with
advanced
weapons and
machines,
attacks
everywhere at
once!
Destruction in France
• Civilian centers
burned to the
ground!
• Jews, Gypsies, and
others rounded up to
be sent back to
Germany for
execution!
• Maginot Line
completely ignored!
• The combined
French, British, and
Belgian Armies on
the run!
Dunkirk Evacuated
June 4, 1940
• Allied soldiers chased all
the way to the sea
• Every seaworthy vessel in
England mobilized for the
rescue
• Hitler almost wins the day
that June, but enough
soldiers are rescued to
keep fighting the war.
France Surrenders
June, 1940
Winston Churchill Speaks
Remember APPARTS?
We’ll use this technique to analyze one of the most
famous speeches of the war.
To hear an MP3 of part of this speech, click here…
Let us Pause and make some comparisons.
Get out your Comparison Matrix from yesterday.
Using your notes so far and Chpt. 16, Sec. 1 in your book,
as well as any prior knowledge, fill out WWII side of the
Comparison Matrix.
Then see if you can identify some things each side has in
common. Put
Hitler meets with Gen. Petain of
France as France begins
armistice talks
A Divided France
“Vichy France becomes the
lapdog of Hitler and Germany.
They do what they are told.
Henri Petain Leads the new
Vichy government.
He means to save as much
of France as possible.
The French Resistance
Neither Free nor actually
in France, DeGaulle
leads the Resistance
(from England), making
spies and saboteurs out
of everyday Frenchmen
The Free French and women. The
citizens, still in France,
smuggle in supplies from
the Allies and disrupt the
Germans whenever and
wherever possible.
General
Charles
DeGaulle
D. What would we call a small group of people attacking an
unpopular government and blowing things up with small home
made weapons today? So, what makes these people different?
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis:
The Tripartite Pact
September, 1940
Now Britain Is All Alone!