let’s review what we know so far! …… please don’t say “nothing”
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Let’s review what we know so far! …… please don’t say “nothing” . Appeasement: . Germany can have the Sudetenland Rest of Czechoslovakia broken up. Look at your blank map. . Label as many countries as you can. Sweden. Norway. Denmark. United Kingdom. Soviet Union. Netherlands. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Let’s review what we know so far!
…… please don’t say “nothing”
Germany can have the Sudetenland Rest of Czechoslovakia broken up
Appeasement:
Label as many countries as you can.
Look at your blank map.
Czech
Germany
Austria Hungary
Poland
Soviet Union
Norway
Sweden
DenmarkUnited Kingdom
France
Italy
Netherlands
Belgium
Shade in the area that Hitler (Germany) received as a result of
the Munich Conference.
Make a prediction… what happens next?
Where will Germany attack next….
CORRECT! A year later Hitler takes all of Czechoslovakia
France and Britain need
to take action… what do they do?
France and Britain create an alliance with Poland.
“We will help you if Hitler attacks”
What about Germany? What are Hitler’s
concerns?…..in other
words, who is he concerned
about?
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact Aug. ‘39
Blitzkrieg
PlanesTanks
Vehicles Foot
SoldiersSU from
East
France and Britain do NOTHING
AXIS PowersGermany
Italy
Japan
ALLIES
Britain
France
More to come…
Spring 1940:
Denmark
NorwayNetherlands
BelgiumLuxembur
g
France
Start at 35 mins in...
Miracle at Dunkirk…
Churchill: “wars are not won by evacuations…”
So what happens next?
Look at your maps to support your predictions
CORRECT! Hitler targets Britain
Britain’s Response:
German Strategy:
Operation Sea Lion
Goal – use air force to destroy British Royal Air Force and gain control of the skies above Britain
July 1940
Result: Britain lost 1000 planesGermany lost 1700 planesMonth long bombing campaign “the Blitz”
What did Hitler do….?
POSTPONE
INVASTION OF BRITAIN
These things all went together to make the most hateful, most beautiful single scene I have ever known."
As of 1940… who do you think will win?
Use at least two pieces of evidence to support your answer.
(Remember evidence is specific)
So what next?
Take a break and look into the Holocaust
Return to our study WWII with America’s involvement
Home front
Two days for in class reading (book chat)
One day for preparing your project in class – great time to work on dialogue!