1. Section 1: Hitler’s Lightning war

2. Non-Aggression pact
An agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union in which each promised not to invade the other with military force
They also agreed to secretly split Poland between the 2 nations

3. Who were the Axis Powers?

4. Blitzkrieg
Germany’s newest military strategy which involved fast-moving airplanes and tanks, followed by massive infantry forces
Translated to “Lightning War”

5. Rescue at dunkirk
British navy and civilians rescued Allied forces at Dunkirk after the Germans had trapped them there
338,000 soldiers were rescued by Navy ships as well as yachts, lifeboats, motor boats and fishing boats

6. Charles degualle
A French general who set up a government-in-exile in London after the Nazis conquered France

7. Winston churchill New British Prime Minister
Declared that the nation would never give in, even after the Nazis took control of France
Powerful speaker

8. The Battle of Britain
After defeating France, the Nazis attacked Britain from the air from the summer of 1940 until spring of 1941
Hitler’s Luftwaffe (German air force) lost this battle even though they outnumbered the RAF (British Air Force)
IMPORTANT!!! – 1ST STOP OF GERMANY IN WWII

9. Operation barbarossa
Hitler’s plan to break the nonaggression pact and invade the Soviet Union
Germans used the element of surprise to push Soviet forces back 500 miles into the country
Soviets fought back by using the scorched-earth policy
Germans lost 500,000 men to the Soviet winter

10. Atlantic charter
A declaration of the principles and goals that Churchill and Roosevelt had for the free world
Upheld free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own government