Chapter 27 World War II
German Rearmament
Reoccupation of the Rhineland – March 1936
Blitzkrieg
First Step: Austria – March 13, 1938 Kurt von Schuschnigg coerced by Hitler to allow the Nazi’s to run the government
2 nd Step: Czechoslovakia Residents salute Hitler as he marches thru Sudentenland
Munich Conference – September 29, 1938 Chamberlain and Hitler shake hands “Peace for Our Time” And then Hitler takes the rest of Czechoslovakia.
War in the Pacific
Next Step: Poland
Panzer Division Poland Surrenders September 28, 1939
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French Maginot Line
German Invasion of Norway and Denmark – April 9, 1940
Defeat of the West May 10, 1940
Battle of Dunkirk – May 27- June 4
From Chamberlain to Churchill Policy of AppeasementNo compromise with Nazism
Vichy France June 5, 1940 – Hitler invades France June 22, 1940 – France falls Henri Petain – hero of Vichy France Mussolini will attack Southern France
August 1940 – Hitler attacks British
Italy attacks Greece October 28, 1940
Hitler Invades Yugoslavia and Greece – Feb 1941
Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union
Japan’s control in the Pacific
War in North Africa – May 13, o_map_n_africa/index_embed.shtml
Battle of Midway June
D-Day June 6, 1944
April 30, 1945
Truman, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and Enola Gay
Nazi Empire
Heinrich Himmler and the SS
Resistance Movements
Charles de Gualle
Reinhard Heydrich and Final Solution
Women and War in Great Britain
Grow Your Own Food