Do Now

• Please get out a piece of paper• Please get out something to write with

The Course of WWII• Summer 1940 Germany invades

France• France surrenders June 22,

1940• Using your third color, choose a

design and draw over already colored France. Mark your key with this design and label, “under German control”

• Hitler now planned for invasion of Britain

• launched massive air strikes, “Battle of Britain”

• July 1940, 1,000+ German planes attacked British airfields/factories

• British planes fought back• August-October 1940,

Germany bombed London daily, “London Blitz”

• English stayed strong• Hitler eventually gave up

• June 1941 Hitler turned to Soviet Union

• Attacked with 3 million soldiers, breaking Hitler-Stalin Pact

• Stalin unprepared, destroyed factories and burned crops as German forces advanced

• German forces had Moscow by winter

• harshness of Russian winters = thousands of German soldiers froze to death

• Germany stalled• Using your same design, draw

over already colored Russia

Hitler’s New Order

• With Europe under Nazi occupation, Hitler could now begin to carry out “New Order”

• Based firmly on principal of racial imperialism– Persecuted inferior peoples in countries under

German control– Begin to carry out his “Final Solution,” the

decimation of the Jewish race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRcNq4OYTyE