Transcript WWII Begins ppt

World War II
Begins
A Dark Time for the Allies
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Britain during WWII
Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact

August 23, 1939
 Germany and Russia
promise not to attack
each other.
 This allows Hitler to
start WWII without
worrying about fighting
a two front war.
The world was stunned
 The
biggest
enemies of the
Nazis (aside from
the Jews) had
been the
Communists
Allies vs. Axis
 Allies
 Britain
 France
 Soviet
Union
 United States
 45 other smaller nations
Allies vs. Axis
 Axis
 Germany
 Italy
 Japan
Allies – Label and color in the Allies
Great
Britain
France
Soviet
Union
Axis – Label and color in the Axis powers
Germany
Italy
Hitler invades Poland
September 1939
 Hitler and the Soviet Union invade
 Find Poland on your map
 Draw a line from Germany to Poland.
Label it 1939
 Draw a line from Soviet Union to
Poland. Label it 1939

Poland
Poland
Soviet
Union
Germany
Poland
How did Hitler win?
 Blitzkrieg
 “lightning
war”
 Planes bomb airfields,
factories, towns and cities
 Then fast moving tanks and
troop transports roared into
the country
Why did Hitler use
Blitzkrieg
 Trench
Warfare was useless,
Blitzkrieg got you land!
 Planes changed things
How long did it take?
 Poland
fell in a little over 2
weeks
 Hitler did not make another
aggressive move until spring
of 1940
Hitler attacks France
 Spring
1940
 Goes in through the Netherlands and
Belgium
 Allied troops escape defeat at Dunkirk
by using military and civilian boats to
get across English channel
 Germans head south toward Paris
Map work
 Label
Netherlands and
Belgium on your map
 At the boarder between
France and Belgium next to
the English Channel place a
dot and label that Dunkirk
Netherlands and Belgium
Netherlands and Belgium
Netherlands
Belgium
Dunkirk
Map of
Dunkirk
 300,000
Allied
troops
flee to
England
by boat
But France is not saved
 Hitler
moves on Paris from the
north and Italy moves in from
the south
 By June 22, 1940 Hitler
controls France
 Set up Nazi government in
Vichy, France
Hitler in
Paris
Hitler in Paris
Hitler in
Paris
Map Work
 Draw
an arrow from Germany
through the Netherlands and
Belgium and then down into
France. Label it 1940
 Draw an arrow from Italy up to
France and label it 1940
France Falls
Battle for Britain
 By
June 1940 Britain stands
alone against Axis powers
 Hitler starts Operation Sea
Lion – to invade Britain
Battle for Britain
 But
he will bomb them first to
weaken them – August 12, 1940
 British Royal Air Force vs. the
Luftwaffe (German Air force)
 First it is just against military
targets
London Blitz
 September
7 1940
 Lasts 57 nights
 15,000 civilians die
 Live your life by the Air Raid siren
 Hide in cellars, bomb shelters,
cold subways
 Wait till the all clear
London
Blitz
A
spotter searches the horizon for
German aircraft.
London Blitz
 Bomber
headed for
London.
Air Raid Siren
 Hide
in
the
Tube!!!
London
Blitz
 St.
Patrick’s Cathedral stands as a
beacon of hope among the smoke
and flames in London
London
Blitz
London Blitz

Firemen work on a blaze. A daily
occurrence during the height of German
bombing in London.
London Blitz
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Confused women stand among the ruins
of a demolished building.
London Blitz

Children
survey the
wreckage
of another
destroyed
building.
Winston Churchill –
Inspires his people
It Failed
 The
city did not break under
the attack
 Bombing failed to crush the
British, instead it brought them
together. By June 1941 Hitler
gave up the London Blitz
Battle for the Soviet Union
 June
1941
 He wants living space
 Lebensraum
 Attacked
France for revenge
 He wants to expand Germany to
the east
Battle for the Soviet Union
3 million Germans pour into Russia
 2.5 million Russian soldiers die trying
to fend off German
 By Autumn 1941 Germans were deep
into the Soviet Union and poised to
take Leningrad and Moscow

Map Work
 Draw
an arrow from Germany
deep into the Soviet Union label it
1941
Battle for the Soviet Union
Not good
Hitler is about to win!
 It
is a dark time for Europe