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The Second World War. 7.0 | We are running out of time, so this is going to be a Blitzkrieg session. 6.5. Hitler Pulls the Reich Together . A series of moves to unify German-speaking people The Rhineland reoccupied – 1936 The Anschluss – Austria enters the Reich – 1938 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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