1. Chapter 16
Part 2
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2. Terms to Know Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill Appeasement
Nonaggression Pact
Blitzkrieg
Charles de Gaulle

3. Aggression Remember Italy took Ethiopia 1935
Spanish Civil War led to the Rome-Berlin Axis

4. Hitler Had said that he intended to unite all German Speaking Peoples
Treaty of Versailles:
Austria
Czechoslovakia…Sudetenland
Poland and the Polish Corridor (Danzig)

5. Europe 1935

6. Hitler Annexed Austria 1938
Austria’s reaction
World Reaction

7. Hitler attacked and took The Sudetenland 1938
Czech reaction
Europe’s Reaction: The Munich Accords

8. The Munich Accords Hitler Neville Chamberlain Edouard Daladier
Hitler said that he was done expanding
England and France Let him keep Austria and the Sudetenland
Czechs very unhappy

9. The Policy of Appeasement
France and England allowed Hitler to keep Austria and the Sudetenland
They believed that Hitler was done expanding
Neville Chamberlain was a hero in England
English believed that Chamberlain kept them out of war

10. Then Hitler took the rest of Czechoslovakia
And made a nonagression treaty with Russia
Also a secret agreement with Russia over an upcoming invasion of Poland

11. In the Meantime
1939 Mussolini took Albania

12. Italy invades Albania

13. Hitler demands Danzig and the Polish Corridor
Wanted to build a road across the Polish corridor linking the two parts of Germany.
Wanted the return of the port city of Danzig
Was refused by the Poles and the League of Nations

14. Hitler claimed that…
The Poles were committing atrocities on Germans in the Polish Corridor
So he attacked!
England and France had promised Poland help if Hitler attacked

15. BLITZKRIEG Means lightening war
Brits and French could not send help on time
As the Germans attacked Poland on their western front…Russia attacked from the east.
Warsaw fell in 3 weeks

16. SITZKRIEG
From the fall of Poland (fall of 1939) to the spring of 1940 Hitler made no other aggressive move
Many in Europe and U.S. womdered if he was done
However…Russia was pretty active

17. After Poland Russia demanded occupation of the Baltic States Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
And Finland

18. Finland fought Russian occupation
Finland fought alone
Lasted for 3 months
The U.S. felt badly about Finland
The Fins were the only country to repay the U.S. in full after WWI
Congress voted to send the Fins $30,000,000 in non-military supplies

19. Spring 1940
April Hitler demanded occupation of Denmark and Norway.
May Hitler demanded occupation of the Netherlands and Belgium
The Neatherlands held out for 5 days
Belgium held out for 18 days

20. Belgium Had help from the English and French
BUT they were trapped at Dunkirk

21. Miracle at Dunkirk
English and French troops in Belgium had their backs to the English Chanel and were going to be overwhelmed by German Troops
They called for help from anyone with private crafts that could reach them
600 private craft arrived and saved 90% of the men trapped there

22. BUT The English and French had to leave their weapons behind
Hitler attacked France and France fell in 3 weeks
Italy attacked France from the south in the last week

23. Terms of the Armistice
The French had to give up 1 million POWs to the Germans
Germany would occupy 2/3 of France
Allowed for a puppet government in the Southern third
The Vichy government was led by Petain (a French general who was a heor in WWI)

24. Hitler made an offer To Winston Churchill
Since the English were also Aryans…
Hitler would leave England alone if England would acknowledge that the rest of the European continent belonged to Germany.
Churchill refused

25. The Battle of Britain
Hitler began to bomb the Brits non stop in order to prepare for an invasion across the English Channel
The bomb9ing continued until the end of the war
First they targeted military bases and weapons factories
Then…civilian population

26. German civilians
Began to starve as a result of the British navy blockading the Coast

27. Charles de Gaulle (French)
Set up a government in exile in England
AND organized the Free French Movement
Was an underground organization in France and elsewhere in Europe dedicated to interferring with the Nazi efforts
Had their own newspaper, helped POWs escape

28. Back to the Battle of Britain
Hitler’s Luftwaffe v the RAF (Royal Air Force)
The Brits had radar
Hitler was forced to “delay” the invasion of Britain.

29. WWII animated map