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WWII: LECTURE 2

CLASS PREVIEW Current Events Hand in letters Lecture Dieppe video? dieppe+uncovered/video.html?v= #diep peuncovered/video/featured+presentation dieppe+uncovered/video.html?v= #diep peuncovered/video/featured+presentation

CURRENT EVENTS

PREVIOUS CLASS What did we learn? Hands Please!

PREVIOUS CLASS Fascism- Mussolini, Franco, Hitler German Aggression: Anschluss, Rhineland, Sudetenland Appeasement Non-Agression Pact Germany invades Poland- War begins Winston Churchill Remember: the war was to created to end the great depression, it just happened to stop it.

WWII- LESSON 2 What is worth going to war for?

WWII-LESSON 2 Sept 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland Sept 3: :Britain & France declare war on Germany September 10: Canada declares war on Germany

CANADIANS GO TO WAR 1939 People not happy to go back to war however people volunteered in September ’39= A lot!! First Nations volunteered at the highest proportion of their population than any other group in Canada

CANADIANS GO TO WAR 1939 Canadians were drawn into service for: 1.Pay- get out of the depression 2.Loyalty to European blood lines 3.Canadian national pride 4.Adventure

CANADIANS GO TO WAR 1939 British Commonwealth Air Training Program: British instructors trained pilots from all over the commonwealth in Canada. Canada suited the needs because it: 1.Open skies 2.Safe distance from enemy 3.Climate

WWII-LESSON 2 Strong wall of defensive garrisons built up after WWI along the French border- The Maginot Line Allied forces build up defences on the French/German border waiting for Germany to make their next move.

MAGINOT LINE

WWII-LESSON 2 From September 1939 to May 1939, no fighting occurred, people began to call this the “phoney war” because they believed nothing was going to happen.

WWII-LESSON 2 German army travels through the Arden forest, thought to be impassable Able to attack Maginot line from behind Maginot line not built to fire in this direction, quickly falls

WWII-LESSON 2 German army travels through the Arden forest, thought impassable

BLITZKRIEG- LIGHTNING WAR German war strategy that utilized surprise, tanks, and aerial assault This was the reason Germany was able to invade Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France in one year!

BLITZKRIEG Blitzkrieg was the key to German military power Allies expected a war similar to WWI- trenches but technological advances made this warfare obsolete.

LUFTWAFFE Luftwaffe- German air force, during WWII Germany had the largest air force.

LUFTWAFFE German air superiority played a major factor in the Allies attempts to retake continental Europe

1940 GERMAN MOVEMENTS April: Nazi forces invade Norway and Denmark May: Nazi forces invade Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, France June: France surrenders Interactive Map: map.htm map.htm

1940 GERMAN MOVEMENTS Dunkirk: French Port town where Allied forces became surrounded

DUNKIRK Allied armies congregated in the port town of Dunkirk while German forces surrounded them British navy summoned every ship capable of crossing the English channel to ferry troops away from the mainland and back to Britain.

DUNKIRK

100’s of fishing boats and pleasure craft answered the call After 9 days of evacuating troops, 340,000 troops were saved French soldiers fought hard to repel German offensive, and German's waited for reinforcements before reengaging the troops in Dunkirk

1940 GERMAN MOVEMENTS By July 1940 France had fallen, leaving Britain and the Commonwealth alone to battle Germany.