1. Agenda

2. 1. Drill: to appease someone means to bring about a state of peace usually by sacrificing one’s principles. List 2 times in your life that you (or someone you know) has appeased someone else. What was the result? 2. Homework: Read and outline pages 623 – 625, “The Japanese Path to War.”

3. Paths to War
Isn’t it Ironic?
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4. World War I – A War to End All Wars?
Steps to Avoid War
1. League of Nations – a general association of nations designed to keep peace among nations.
2. Kellogg-Briand Pact – renounces war. Signed by most European countries after WWI (signed in 1928)
3. Appeasement - policy used by Britain and France of giving in to an aggressor to keep the peace

5. Hitler violates the Treaty
Hitler built up army and created an air force
Drafted soldiers
Sent troops into the demilitarized Rhineland
Later said he would have backed down if the French and British had challenged him
Hitler saw that Britain and France would let him get away with anything

7. Hitler goes too far:
1936 – Hitler reoccupies Rhineland
-- Also signs alliance with Italy and Japan
1938 – Hitler annexes Austria
1938 – Hitler invades Czechoslovakia (says Czech’s Sudentenland is rightfully Germany’s)
1939 – Hitler demands parts of Poland
-- France and Britain finally get mad

8. Germany Invades Poland
First signs non-aggression pact with Soviet Union – Germany and Soviet Union promise not to attack each other. Hitler promises Stalin ½ of Poland.
German tanks and trucks plowed into Poland with more than 1.5 million troops
Dropped bombs on Warsaw in a lightning attack known as Blitzkrieg (lightning war)
Poland fell to the Germans almost immediately
2 days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany

9. German battle- ship shelling Westerplatte in Poland
Soviet troops invade Poland

11. Soviet troops occupy eastern Poland shortly after the German invasion
The Soviets Advance
Soviet troops occupy eastern Poland shortly after the German invasion
Then Stalin sends Russian troops to Finland
Finnish winter brutal
Fins fought Russians on skis!
Russia won in 1940

12. Finnish army on skis, and Russian tank in sub-freezing temperatures

13. Phony War
7 months later still no fighting
British and French troops lined the Maginot Line and waited for the Germans to attack
Germans first invaded and conquered Denmark and Norway.

14. The Maginot Line

15. The Battle for France
Hitler went through Holland, Luxembourg and Belgium to get to France
Distracts France and goes around the Maginot Line with different troops
French ran away to the beaches of Dunkirk.
850 British ships then sailed down to rescue the French army
Rescued 338,000 French soldiers!

16. Dunkirk-rescued French troops disembarking in England.
British troops evacuating Dunkirk's beaches. Many French stood shoulder deep in water for hours, waiting to board the warships.
Dunkirk-rescued French troops disembarking in England.

17. Fall of France
June 22, France surrenders
Germans control northern France
Left southern France under control of French prime minister, Marshal Petain
Petain was in charge of the French “puppet” government in Vichy, France
Another French general, Charles de Gaulle, fled to Britain and led the Free French Military force that fought the Nazis until France’s liberation in 1944

19. Pétain shaking hands with Hitler