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.
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