32.1 HITLER`S LIGHTNING WAR

WORLD HISTORYPETERSON SCHOOLMR.HOOD

MAIN IDEAEMPIRE BUILDING.

USING THE SUDDEN MASS ATTACK CALLED THE BLITZKRIEG, GERMANY OVERRAN MUCH OF EUROPE AND

NORTH AFRICA.

WHY IT MATTERS NOW HITLER`S ACTIONS SET OFF WWII.

THE RESULTS OF THE WAR STILL AFFECT THE POLITICS AND

ECONOMICSOF TODAY`S WORLD.

INTRODUCTION

GERMANY + ITALY + JAPAN

AXIS POWERS

HITLER HAD EXPANDED

BUT ADOLF HITLER HAD

GREATER AMBITIONS

OBJECTIVE 1SUMMARIZE THE EVENTS THAT LED TO WAR

HITLER + STALIN SIGNED A

NON-AGGRESSION PACT

GERMANY + SOVIET UNION

AGREED TO DIVIDE POLAND

GERMANY INVADED POLAND 01 SEPTEMBER

1939

FRANCE + BRITAIN DECLARED

WAR ON GERMANY

FRANCE + BRITAIN

FORMED ALLIED FORCES

IN POLAND GERMANY USED NEW MILITARY

TACTIC

BLITZKRIEG: FAST-

MOVING AIRPLANES + TANKS

FOLLOWED BY MASSIVE INFANTRY

BLITZKRIEG CAUSED SURPRISE +

OVERWHELM

POLAND WAS EASILY DEFEATED

+ SURRENDERED ON 06 OCTOBER

GERMANY ANNEXED

THEIR PART OF POLAND

SOVIET UNION TOOK MUCH LONGER TO GAIN THEIR PART

OF POLAND

OBJECTIVE 2DESCRIBE THE

FALL OF FRANCE AND THE BATTLE

OF BRITAIN

“PHONY WAR” FOLLOWED

(NOTHING HAPPENED)

THEN GERMANY TOOK

DENMARK + NORWAY

GERMANY THEN TOOK

NETHERLANDS BELGIUM + LUXEMBOURG

SOON AFTER

GERMANY TOOK FRANCE

GERMANY THEN FOCUSED

ATTENTION ON GREAT BRITAIN

GREAT BRITAIN STOOD ALONE AGAINST

THE NAZIS

GERMANY + GREAT BRITAIN

FOUGHT BATTLE OF BRITAIN

A BATTLE IN THE SKY

GERMANY BOMBED

BRITISH CITIES IN THE BLITZ

MANY BRITISH CITIES

DESTROYED

CIVILIANS DOVE FOR COVER

BUT BRITAIN GAVE AS GOOD AS THEY

GOT

AND GREAT BRITAIN WAS

VICTORIOUS

FINALLY, HITLER HAD BEEN

BLOCKED

OBJECTIVE 3EXPLAIN THE

CONFLICTS ON THE EASTERN FRONT

HITLER CHANGED HIS STRATEGY

HITLER WOULD DEAL WITH BRITAIN

LATER

HITLER TURNED TO EASTERN

FRONT WANTED SOVIET UNION

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE NON-AGRESSION

PACT?

HITLER PERSUADED BULGARIA, ROMANIA + HUNGARY TO JOIN

AXIS POWERS

GERMANY ALSO TOOK YUGOSLAVIA +

GREECE

HITLER WAS NOW

READY TO INVADE RUSSIA

GERMAN PLAN CALLED OPERATION

BARBAROSSA

GERMANS ADVANCED TO

MOSCOW

BUT WINTER SET IN

BUT HITLER DEMANDED: “NO

RETREAT”

COST GERMANY 500,000 LIVES

OBJECTIVE 4DESCRIBE U.S. AID

TO THE ALLIES

AMERICANS FAVORED

ISOLATIONISM

BUT USA KNEW IF

ALLIED FORCES FELL…

…USA WOULD BE DRAGGED INTO

WAR

THE USA BEGAN

HELPING THE ALLIED FORCES

SUPPLIED BRITISH WITH ARMS USING BOATS ACROSS

ATLANTIC

HITLER ORDERED THESE SHIPS BE SUNK

CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT

SIGNED ATLANTIC CHARTER

FREE TRADE AMONG NATIONS +

PEOPLE CHOOSE OWN GOVERNMENT

DESPITE THIS, GERMANY SUNK A SHIP BELONGING

TO USA

USA RESPONDED BY

ATTACKING GERMAN SUBMARINES

U.S.A. + GERMANY FOUGHT UNDECLARED

NAVAL WAR

NOT LONG UNTIL USA

OFFICIALLY JOINED THE FIGHT