7.0 | We are running out of time, so this is going to be a Blitzkrieg session

THE SECOND WORLD WAR6.5

Hitler Pulls the Reich Together A series of moves to unify German-speaking

peopleThe Rhineland reoccupied – 1936 The Anschluss – Austria enters the Reich – 1938 The Sudetenland – Germans in Czechoslovakia –

1938 Annexation of Czechoslovakia – 1939 Among other acquisitions…

Allied Response?Appeasement – placate Hitler in hopes he will

stop

Neville Chamberlain – GB Agrees to concede to Hitler’s demands in

exchange for promise to halt aggression…

I mean what’s he going to do? It is France and GB on his left and the USSR on his right.

CONFERENCE AT MUNICH 1938

Hitler organizes a NA treaty with Stalin

Promising not to go to war with each other (plus so other goodies)

This frees up his Eastern front

GB (and especially France) freak out

Known as the “Green Light to War” – signed in August 1939

THE NAZI-SOVIET NON-AGGRESSIONS TREATY 1939

Hitler stages a Polish invasion and then unleashes the Wehrmacht

The Danzig Corridor – “The worst monstrosity of the Versailles Treaty”

“Who wants to get bogged down in a world war over Danzig”

SEPTEMBER 1, 1939

Poland is CrushedGermany invades from the

west, the USSR from the east Nazi occupation will have

devastating results Soviet occupation leads to

atrocities as well Katyn Forest The Sitzkrieg

Denmark and Norway are Occupied The “Iron Route”

From Sweden, through Narvik (Norway)

April 1940

MAY 10, 1940 – FRANCE/BENELUX

By June, all were occupied –Schlieffen, the Ardennes, and the Blitzkrieg

The Miracle at Dunkirk and Churchill Dunkirk – “Wars are

not won by evacuations”

Britain stands alone“We shall fight on the

beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

VICHY FRANCECollaborates with the Nazis | Italy’s involvement in

France

The RAF, a change of strategy, and the destruction of London

THE BLITZ

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so

few.”

Italy in AfricaInvades British Egypt

Should have stuck with breadsticks… General Montgomery

The Afrika Korps Erwin Rommel “the Desert Fox”

German Submarine Warfare

THE WOLF PACKS

1941 - ***** tons of shipping sunk – America’s Lend-Lease

Meanwhile, in AsiaJapan is

conquering ChinaAtrocities

The Imperial Navy

Japanese limitations

US embargos Pressure on Japan

OPERATION BARBAROSSANazi invasion of the Soviet Union – June 22, 1941 – Delay from March

United States’ InvolvementLend-Lease ActArsenal of

Democracy Situation with

Japan

Barbarossa Slows DownArmy Group AArmy Group BArmy Group C

Early stages of invasionRainy season FrostWinter 1941Battle of Moscow

Operation Bagration https://

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=w1SZRpPGVUk&NR=1

Ilyushin IL-2Most heavily produced plane of all timeCAS – strafing