Transcript Europe goes to war GT

Explain how WWII started
Key Terms
• Axis Powers
• Anschluss
• Munich Pact
• Appeasement
• Blitzkrieg
Opening Activity
• What aggressive actions
did Japan and Italy make
in the early 1930s?
• How did the League of
Nations respond?
• Non-aggression Pact
• Dunkirk
• Battle of Britain
• Winston Churchill
• HW: Map Activity use pg.
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Complete the handout on Appeasing the
Nazis
H
Europe Goes to
War
A. Hitler’s not satisfied
1. Germany takes
the rest of
Czechoslovakia
2. Hitler wants
Poland
B. Setting the Stages
for War
1. French and British leaders
swear to defend Poland.
2. Hitler makes the
Nonaggression Pact with the
Soviet Union
a.
Germany avoids a war from the
east
H
Invasion of Poland (1939)
C. War Breaks Out
1. Germany invades Poland just a week
later. (9-1-39)
2. France and Britain, the Allies, declare
war on Germany. (9-3-39)
3. Sitzkrieg (Phony War): 8 months
passed with no fighting
a. France and Britain mobilized (get ready
for war)
C. War Breaks Out (Cont.)
4. Germany invades Norway and
Denmark (4-9-40)
a. During this time, Chamberlain
resigns as leader of Britain and is
replaced by Winston Churchill
5. Then Germany invaded Belgium,
Netherlands, and Luxembourg (5-1040)
Blitzkrieg
D. Why was Germany
successful? GERMAN
BLITZKRIEG
a. Lightning War: Strategy used to
take over other countries quickly.
b. Uses bombers then tanks, finally
the infantry
E. France
1. France and the Maginot
Line
a. After WWI, France built major
fortifications along the French-German
border- known as the Maginot Line.
b. Problem- French artillery could not be
turned around if the Germans got behind
the line.
H
The Invasion of France
• In May of 1940, Germany invades France
through Belgium
• The Maginot Line was worthless
• French and British soldiers were divided
– Almost 400,000 soldiers became trapped at
the beaches of Dunkirk
– A makeshift fleet of British tug boats, fishing
boats, and yachts rescue 330,000
– The largest rescue in history
France Falls
a. By June 14th Hitler was in Paris and France
was conquered.
b. On June 22nd the world watch as France
surrendered
1.
France was officially divided into a northern
occupied France and a southern Nazi puppet
state known as Vichy France
2.
French General Charles De Gaulle set up a
government from England to continue the fight
c. With France gone Great Britain was the only
Ally left.
H
F. BATTLE OF BRITAIN
1. Britain led by Prime Minister Winston
Churchill
2. Largest air assault yet, Germans send
over 1,000 planes
3. To break the English resolve to fight,
Hitler began the “Blitz” an all out attack of
civilian targets.
4. Under gunned and outnumbered British
air force defend Britain
5. Churchill, “Never give up, never
surrender”, Germans end raids in late
1941
Exit:
• Summarize the beginning of World War II
in four sentences.
– What was happening? Why?