1. Personal Connections paper due Friday February 10
WWII Film Assignment due Tuesday February 14
Causes of WWII quiz- Monday February 6

2. America was right to be isolationist in the 1930's
Neville Chamberlain should be remembered as a coward for appeasing Hitler
America and other Allied countries should have declared war on Germany when they invaded Czechoslovakia (Rhineland, Austria)

4. Blitzkrieg- German military strategy, "lightning war"
Uses element of surprise, land & air attacks
Sept invaded Poland
German-Russia pact- two sided attack
Britain and France declare war on Germany
WWII begins (1939)

5. Stalin (Russia) annexed Baltic states
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland
Hitler invaded Denmark and Norway
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg

6. German armies sent through Belgium Went through Ardennes
Wooded ravines
Thought impassible

7. Fled to beaches of Dunkirk
Overwhelmed Allied forces
Trapped British & French soldiers
Fled to beaches of Dunkirk
330,000 British, French, Belgian troops ferried across Channel
Dunkirk

8. What is the overall mood/tone of the beach?
What emotions do you see on different people at Dunkirk?
What mood/tone does the main character show?

9. Italy enters war on Germany’s side
Invades France from South
Germans close in on Paris from North
June 22, France surrenders

10. Germans occupied Northern France
Nazi-controlled puppet government set up in Southern France
Vichy government

11. Summer of 1940- Germany launched an air war against Britain
Goal: to gain control of skies and Britain by destroying Royal Air Force (RAF)

12. For 2 months, London and Britain bombed
Airfields and cities targeted

14. Sept 1940: RAF shot down 185 German planes
Radar- new technology
Pilots plotted paths of German planes
Sept 1940: RAF shot down 185 German planes
Lost 26
Six weeks later, Hitler called off invasion

15. Friends- Churchill wanted Roosevelt to join in the war
Special Relationship
Friends- Churchill wanted Roosevelt to join in the war
Roosevelt caught between friend (and what he wanted to do) and what the American public wanted
What would you do?

16. Sept, 1939- “cash-and-carry” passed
Allowed warring nations to buy U.S. arms as long as:
They paid cash
They transported them in their own ships
Why might this be a good policy?
Why might it be a bad policy?

17. Sept 1940- Germany, Italy, Japan signed mutual defense treaty
Known as Axis Powers
Each nation agreed to aid others if they were attacked
Aimed to keep US out of war- how?
If US declared war on any one country, would face a two-ocean war

18. America had to become “the great arsenal of democracy”
March 1941: Lend-Lease Act
President would lend or lease arms and other supplies to “any country whose defense was vital to the United States”

19. June 1941- Hitler invaded Russia
Roosevelt sent Lend-Lease supplies to Tussia
Why might this have been controversial?
“… if Hitler invaded Hell, the British would be prepared to work with the devil himself.”

20. Hitler deployed hundreds of U-boats to attack lend-lease aid ships
Wolf pack attacks- groups of up to 40 subs patrolled areas and sunk ships
Roosevelt allowed navy warships to attack U-boats in self-defense

21. FDR was right to support Allies with legislation and supplies, but not military forces by joining the war. Do you agree or disagree? Explain

22. Leading up to US entering WWII
1931
Japan invades Manchuria
1940
Battle of Britain
German invasions:
Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, etc
1933
Hitler elected Chancellor
1939
Germany invades Poland (then France)
1929
Black Tuesday
1940/1941
Cash & Carry,
Lend-Lease

23. Early morning surprise attack by Japanese
Pearl Harbor
Dec 6, 1941
Early morning surprise attack by Japanese *

24. Watch and reflect: What lines / moments stand out to you?
What was the experience like?