Transcript WORLD WAR II BEGINS

WORLD WAR II BEGINS
Ch. 19, Section 2
By Thomas Parsons
I. Peace in our Time
A. 1938 Hitler
threatened to
invade Austria
1. In February
demanded Austrian
Nazis given important
government posts
2. March 1938 Hitler
announced
Anschluss, or
unification of Austria
and Germany.
B. Hitler claimed the
Sudetenland (area
around
Czechoslovakia with
large German
population.
C. Czechs resisted
D. France, the Soviet Union and Britain threatened
war if Germany attacked Czechoslovakia
1. September, 29, 1938,
leaders of Britain
(Neville
Chamberlain),
France, Italy
(Mussolini), Germany
(Hitler) met at Munich
2. Leaders allowed
Hitler to take just
Sudetenland
3. became known as the
Policy of
Appeasement
E.
F.
After Munich Hitler took
all of Czechoslovakia in
March, 1939.
Hitler demanded the
return of Danzig –
Poland’s Baltic Sea Port.
1.
2.
Also demanded Polish
Corridor - a highway
and railroad across
Poland to Danzig
British and French
refused to appease
Hitler
G. August 23, 1939
Germany and
USSR signed a
Nonaggression
Treaty to divide
Poland
II. The War Begins
A. September 1, 1939,
Germany and USSR
invaded Poland.
1. September Britain and
France declared war
on Germany
B. The Germans used
Blitzkrieg (lightning
war) to attack
Poland.
1. Poland was defeated
on October 5, 1939
Continued
C. April 9, 1940 Germany attacked Norway and
Denmark, they fell within a month
D. The Maginot Line
1. After WWI the French
fortified the border
with Germany
2. Impenetrate-able
Concrete fortifications
3. Hitler went around by
invading Netherlands,
Belgium and
Luxembourg (low
countries)
4. The French and
British went into
Belgium and were
trapped there
E. British and French escape
1. June 4th about 328,000
British and French
troops had escaped
Belgium through
Dunkirk
2. Picked up on the coast
and sent to Britain.
F. On June 22, 1940
France surrendered
to the Germans.
1. Germany set up a
puppet government
(Vichy)
III. Britain Remains Defiant
A. Hitler thought that Britain would negotiate peace
after France surrendered
1. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered a
speech of defiance June 4, 1940
2. Rallied the British people
B. The Battle of Britain
1. To invade Britain, Germany had to defeat the British air force
2. Germany’s Luftwaffe launched an all-out air battle to destroy the
Royal Air Force
3. Germany bombed
London,
4. Britain bombed
Berlin in response
C. Radar turned the tide
1. The R.A.F was greatly outnumbered by the
Luftwaffe
2. Radar picked up planes leaving Germany and
British Spitfires and Hawker fighter planes
intercepted bombers
Closing assessment
Directions: Answer the following prompts in 2-3 complete sentences.
1.) Explain the policy known as Appeasement, and what effects did it
have on Europe once it was granted to Hitler’s Germany?
2.) What was Britain’s response to Germany’s expansion of power
throughout Europe, and what crucial piece of technology change the
tides of the war?