Road to World War II

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Road to World War II

• Meeting in Munich
• Britain, France, Germany sign an agreement that
  they say saves Czechoslovakia from destruction
• Neville Chamberlain Peace in our time
• http//www.history.com/speeches/chamberlain-secure
  s-peace-in-our-time
• Winston Churchill They had to choose between
  war and dishonor. They chose dishonor they will
  have war!

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Fate of Czechoslovakia
3
Hitlers Strategy

• Nazi menace
• Bully
• Plays on fear of war and pacifism
• Did this work?

4
How did the West react?

• Appeasement to give into an aggressor to avoid
  conflict.
• Did Hitler keep his word?

5
Blitzkrieg lightning wars

• September 1, 1939 German forces stormed into
  Poland. Britain and France honor their
  commitment to Poland and declare war on Germany
• Bombed airfields, factories, towns, cities,
  screaming dive bombers and then sends in troops

6
Blitz

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vICr_fHy1Z84

7
Battle of Britain

• http//www.history.com/speeches/churchill-on-the-b
  attle-of-france

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NAZI take over
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Battle of Britain Operation Sea Lion

• http//www.history.com/video.do?nameamericanhisto
  rybcpid1676043206bclid1729305800bctid1606845
  788
• Churchill the new Prime Minister We shall
  defend our island whatever the cost may be
• Luftwaffe, led by Goering, hit military targets
  first. When that failed he went for civilian
  targets
• Blitz of London 57 nights 15,000 people died
• Brits win a moral victory
• Myth of Dunkirk
• 300,000 rescued from Dunkirk and ferried to
  English coast

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Propaganda Posters and Cartoons
11
Nonaggression Pact
12
Invasion of Soviet Union- Operation Barbarossa

• 3 million Germans pour into Russia
• Stalin is unprepared
• Russians lost 2.5 million
• Slash and burn
• Siege at Stalingrad and Leningrad

13
German Soldiers in Soviet Union

• Like Napoleon, Hitler is defeated by General
  Winter!

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Turning Points of World War II

• Global 10 Honors

15
Allied Invasion of France

• Allied planes dropped paratroopers behind enemy
  lines
• June 6, 1944 General Eisenhower commanded 176,000
  allied troops across the English Channel
• August 25th the Allies entered Paris within a
  month France was free

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War in the Pacific

• The War in the Pacific was an Island Hopping
  Campaign
• General Douglass MacArthur led forces across
  Pacific
• Battles at Coral Sea Midway US damaged two
  Japanese fleets
• US took offensive after Midway
• October 1944 US retook Philippines
• Mid 1945 Allies poised to invade Japan

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Advance on Berlin

• Allied troops raced towards the capital of
  Germany Berlin
• Hitler launches a hopeless last push called the
  Battle of the Bulge his last success
• Americans and Soviets met and shook hands at the
  Elbe River
• May 7th Germany surrenders
• May 8th VE Day

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Defeat of Japan

• The Allies made the decision to end the war in
  the Pacific with the dropping of the Atomic bomb,
  rather than an invasion
• August 6th Hiroshima
• August 9th Nagasaki
• September 2, 1945 is VJ day

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Atomic Bomb

• http//www.history.com/media.do?actionclipidtdi
  h_aug06_broadband

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D-Day
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War in the Pacific
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Hitlers Suicide