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Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939 Blitzkrieg [“Lightening War”]

Axis Success Germany defeated Poland in less than 4 weeks. –Panzer: armed forces –Luftwaffe: superior air force –Blitzkreig: fast moving war; “lightening”

Invasion of Scandinavia Sitzkrieg: means sitting war. –7 months without either side launching a major offensive –It ended on April 1940 when Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrendered within a few hours of fighting What factor aided the German conquest of Norway? –Fifth columnists: a term coined during the Spanish Civil War to refer to individuals within a country who secretly aid the enemy by spying, and spreading enemy propaganda, and committing sabotage or other similar activities. –In Norway, Vidkun Quisling was the most notorious of the 5 th columnists.

France – False Sense of Security? The Maginot Line

France – False Sense of Security?

German Troops March into Warsaw

France Surrenders June, 1940

A Divided France Henri Petain

The French Resistance The Free French General Charles DeGaulle The Maquis

The North Africa Campaign: The Battle of El Alamein, 1942 Gen. Ernst Rommel, The “Desert Fox” Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery (“Monty”)

Now Britain Is All Alone!

Great Britain $31 billion Soviet Union $11 billion France $3 billion China $1.5 billion Other European $500 million South America $400 million The amount totaled: $48,601,365,000 U. S. Lend-Lease Act, 1941

Lend-Lease

Battle of Britain: The “Blitz”

The London “Tube”: Air Raid Shelters during the Blitz

The Royal Air Force

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

The Atlantic Charter y Roosevelt and Churchill sign treaty of friendship in August y Solidifies alliance. y Fashioned after Wilson’s 14 Points. y Calls for League of Nations type organization.

Operation Barbarossa: Hitler’s Biggest Mistake

Operation Barbarossa: June 22, 1941 y 3,000,000 German soldiers. y 3,400 tanks.

Pearl Harbor

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Pilot

Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941 A date which will live in infamy!

President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War

USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor Memorial 2,887 Americans Dead!

The “Big Three” Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin

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