Transcript Europe Goes to War

Unit 4
Lesson 2
Europe Goes to War
Unit 4
Lesson 2
(Section 24.2)
Objectives:
• Explain the origins and trace the spread of
war in Europe.
Warm Up
• Who were the
totalitarian leaders that
rose to power in
Europe?
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Hitler – GRM
Stalin – USSR
Mussolini – ITL
Franco - SPA
Review
• Causes of WW2?
– Nationalism
• Fascists, Nazis esp
promote national pride
– Imperialism
• Japan in Pacific; ITL in
Albania & Ethiopia;
GRM in Rhineland,
Austria (Anschluss),
Sudetenland
(Czechoslovakia)
– Militarism
• Japanese navy; GRM draft,
war industries, arms
– Alliances
• Rome-Berlin
• Rome-Berlin-Tokyo AXIS
– Internatl Anarchy
• Quit LON
• Euro nations do nothing
• US isolated
Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
• Aug 1939
• GRM & USSR won’t
attack each other (10yrs).
• Economic Support
• Secretly agree to ÷
Poland, Baltic states
Molotov-Ribbentrop Sign Pact in front of
Stalin.
Polish Blitzkrieg
German “Stukas”, part of Luftwaffe, paved
way for “panzer” tank divisions to roll
through Poland largely unopposed.
Polish Blitzkrieg
• “Lightning War”
• September 1, 1939
– Luftwaffe Stukas
– Panzer tanks
– Terror & chaos
• POL fell in 3 weeks.
– GRM laws, imprison
Jews
German Army marches through Warsaw
Sitzkrieg Begins
• “Phony” or “Sit-Down
War”
• Sept 3, 1939:
– GB and FRA declare
war on GRM to aid POL
• Fortify “Maginot Line”
– Sit and wait for GRM to
do something…
Still Waiting…
France Falls
• April 9, 1940
– Hitler blitzkriegs neighbors
(DEN, NET, NOR, BEL, LUX)
• May
– Bypass Maginot line!
– Split GB & FRA troops
• May-June
– Dunkirk Rescue
– Free France (govt-in-exile) led
by Charles deGaulle
• June 21 FRA surrenders
– Est. Vichy Govt (Puppet Govt)
in France led by Petain
Battle of Britain
• August 1940
• Operation Sea Lion:
– Control of
skies…invade by
land?
• End “island
invincibility”
Backing Off Britain
• Radar plots flights,
RAF begins
counterattack.
– Enigma machine
codebreaker
• GRM invasion
plan fails, but keep
(fire)bombing
– GB retaliates!
Members of RAF relax between flights
War in Euro on Film
Closure
• Why was Germany
able to take Poland &
France so quickly (esp
as compared to WWI
efforts)?
• Aircraft, tank
divisions, blitz tactics,
superior firepower