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Objective Analyze the effectiveness of Hitler's war strategy and America’s involvement in the war

Objective Analyze the effectiveness of Hitler's war strategy and America’s involvement in the war Do Now If you were Hitler, what would be you plan of attack at the beginning of the war? Who would you attack first, second, third, and why?. Hitler’s Lightning War. Chapter 32 Section 1.

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Objective Analyze the effectiveness of Hitler's war strategy and America’s involvement in the war

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  1. Objective • Analyze the effectiveness of Hitler's war strategy and America’s involvement in the war Do Now • If you were Hitler, what would be you plan of attack at the beginning of the war? Who would you attack first, second, third, and why?

  2. Hitler’s Lightning War Chapter 32 Section 1

  3. I Germany Sparks a New War in Europe • Germany & SU sign the non-aggression pact • Promise not to attack each other and secretly agree to divide Poland between themselves • Non-aggression pact ensures Germany wont be attacked from east • Hitler unleashed Blitzkrieg on Poland  GB & France declare war 2 days later • Blitzkrieg = “lightning war” surprise simultaneous aerial and ground attack

  4. Stalin begins to send troops to E half of Poland as germ was in W • GB & France stationed on Maginot Line • Forts along border of France & Germany • Germans along the Siegfried Line (few miles away) • Nothing happened  “sitzkrieg” or “phony war” • “phony war” ends with German invasion of Denmark

  5. II Battle for France and Great Britain • Germ moves through Belgium & sends troops through the Ardennes to get to France • Heavily wooded area in NE France & Luxembourg • Allied forces trapped in N France fled to GB through the English channel • Sensing Frances fall, Mussolini joins forces w/ Hitler and attacks France from S • Charles De Gaulle= WWI vet in exile org. Free French mil.

  6. France falls  GB (Winston Churchill)alone against Nazis • Hitler  Operation Sea Lion (Luftwaffe to take out RAF) • RAF won Battle of Britain because of 2 major tech advances • Radar • Enigma code broken

  7. II Eastern Front & Mediterranean • GB resistance  Hitler's attention to east (Soviet Union) • Italy attacks N Africa & moves into France to join Nazi forces • Mussolini moves to Egypt to control Suez Canal • GB pushes back  Germany sending Rommel AKA “Desert Fox” • Desert Fox creates Afrika Corps & gains control of Suez • Hitler invades Balkans in order to invade SU

  8. Hitler invades SU (Operation Barbarossa) • Russians retreat with scorched earth warfare • Hitler lays siege on Leningrad during winter  thousands of deaths but no surrender • Hitler moves to Moscow (capital) in winter & is counterattacked • Harsh winter  German failure (did not learn from Napoleon's winter defeat)

  9. IV the United States & its Allies • WWI  Isolationism  Neutrality Acts • Illegal to send or sell arms to nations at war • FDR new Allied loss would  US getting involved • Congress passes Lend-Lease • FDR & Churchill sign Atlantic Charter  basis for peace plan at the end of WWII • U-Boat sinks American ship  US in undeclared naval war with Germany

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