World History Chapter 20 - World War II Section 2 - War in Europe

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World History Chapter 20 - World War
II Section 2 - War in Europe
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• War Begins
• September 1, 1939
• Hitler invades Poland.
• Great Britain and France declare war.
• German offensive
• German war strategy- blitzkrieg (lightening
  war) taking the enemy by surprise.
• April 1940
• Norway and Denmark taken by Hitler.
• Germans secure outlet to Atlantic Ocean at Baltic
  Sea.

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• May 10-15, 1940
• Netherlands surrender.
• Hitler invades France.
• May 26, 1940 Dunkirk, France
• Germans push allies to the English Channel
• British Navy and civilians rescue 300,000
  soldiers across English Channel.
• June 22, 1940- France surrenders.

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• Battle of Britain
• Hitler attacks Britain with Luftwaffe (air
  force).
• Factories, munitions, airfields destroyed.
• Attack continued from August-November 3.
• London bombed for 57 consecutive nights- known as
  the blitz.
• RAF, Royal Air Force, defeated Luftwaffe and
  blockaded Hitlers invasion of Britain.

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• Atlantic Charter
• August 1941
• Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt call for
  the destruction of Nazi tyranny.
• Agreed that freedom of trade and self-rule must
  be upheld.

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• USA aids Great Britain
• Cash and carry policy- Great Britain traded cash
  for supplies.
• Lend-lease- president could lend war supplies to
  countries.
• April 1941
• German forces, under General Rommel, drive
  British out of Libya, Africa.