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24-2: War in Europe. 1936 Hitler sends troops to the Rhineland (buffer zone between Germany and France) Considered a violation of the Treaty of Versailles.

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1 24-2: War in Europe

2 1936 Hitler sends troops to the Rhineland (buffer zone between Germany and France) Considered a violation of the Treaty of Versailles and an act of war

3 September 1938: Neville Chamberlain signs the Munich Pact? Munich Pact: Great Britain and France appease Hitler by allowing Germany to take the Sudetenland In return Hitler agrees that this would be his last territorial demand

4 Winston Churchill Opposes the Munich Pact Churchill's remark: "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." Churchill did not believe that Great Britain should pacify an aggressor like Hitler in order to keep the peace = appeasement ←On back of your note page

5 3. Germany and the USSR sign nonaggression pact August 1939: Germany and the USSR agree not to fight each other = nonaggression pact Germany and the USSR enter into a secret agreement to invade Poland and divide the country between them. ←On back of your note page

6 4. 1939 Poland /France and Great Britain Responds. September 1939: Germany invades Poland. Meanwhile USSR invades Poland from the East. Poland is divided between the USSR and Germany, Poland ceases to exist Great Britain and France declare war on Germany/World War II has begun An armored column of Third Reich forces streams into Poland in September 1939, igniting the war in Europe.

7 ON BACK OF PAPER: Lightning war strategy used by Germany against Poland in 1939 …and used against Norway, Demark, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the spring of 1940. Germany uses tanks and planes to take the enemy by surprise and crush them quickly

8 SURRENDER TERMS OFFERED TO FRANCE Germany occupies the Northern Part of France A Nazi-controlled puppet government is set up at Vichy in Southern France On Back of Paper: Charles de Gaulle: The French general sets up a French government in exile in England. He promises to free France from the Nazis.

9 The Battle of Britain Summer 1940: Hitler begins air raids over England as a first step toward invading Great Britain The Germans bomb London night after night in August of 1940 The RAF successfully defends Britain against these attacks using the new technology of radar to locate and shoot down hundreds of German planes Hitler is forced to call off the invasion of Britain

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