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The Second World War

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

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The Second World War

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  1. The Second World War 7.0 | We are running out of time, so this is going to be a Blitzkrieg session 6.5

  2. 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 • The Sudetenland – Germans in Czechoslovakia – 1938 • Annexation of Czechoslovakia – 1939 • Among other acquisitions… • Allied Response? • Appeasement – placate Hitler in hopes he will stop

  3. Conference at Munich 1938 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.

  4. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggressions Treaty 1939 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

  5. September 1, 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”

  6. Poland is Crushed • Germany 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

  7. Denmark and Norway are Occupied • The “Iron Route” • From Sweden, through Narvik (Norway) • April 1940

  8. May 10, 1940 – France/Benelux By June, all were occupied –Schlieffen, the Ardennes, and the Blitzkrieg

  9. 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.”

  10. Vichy France Collaborates with the Nazis | Italy’s involvement in France

  11. The blitz The RAF, a change of strategy, and the destruction of London “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

  12. Italy in Africa • Invades British Egypt • Should have stuck with breadsticks… • General Montgomery • The AfrikaKorps • Erwin Rommel “the Desert Fox”

  13. 1941 - ***** tons of shipping sunk – America’s Lend-Lease The Wolf Packs German Submarine Warfare

  14. Meanwhile, in Asia • Japan is conquering China • Atrocities • The Imperial Navy • Japanese limitations • US embargos • Pressure on Japan

  15. Operation Barbarossa Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union – June 22, 1941 – Delay from March

  16. United States’ Involvement • Lend-Lease Act • Arsenal of Democracy • Situation with Japan

  17. Barbarossa Slows Down • Army Group A • Army Group B • Army Group C • Early stages of invasion • Rainy season • Frost • Winter 1941 • Battle of Moscow

  18. Operation Bagration • https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=w1SZRpPGVUk&NR=1 • Ilyushin IL-2 • Most heavily produced plane of all time • CAS – strafing

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