1. The War in Europe Unit 4- Hot and Cold War Lesson 2

2. Objectives Analyze a quote and relate it to the prior nights reading Identify how the German invasion of Poland led to war with Great Britain and France Describe the major events of the war in Europe

3. Warm up: Quote analysis What is meant by the following quote? How does the PM’s beliefs reflect the reality of the time? “That is the deep difference between the Prime Minister and myself throughout these days. The Prime Minister has believed in addressing Herr Hitler through the language of sweet reasonableness. I have believed that he was more open to the language of the mailed [armored] fist.” – Alfred Duff Cooper, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1938

4. Setting the Scene Hitler: Sudetenland Occupies western half of Czechoslovakia Mussolini Albania British and French Appeasement- policy of granting concessions to potential enemies to maintain peace

5. Activity: Story Book You will each be responsible for creating a page in our class book! You will need to identify the important information by summarizing it. In addition you will need to visually represent your summary.

6. Page 1: 807 Page 2: Invasion of Poland pg 808 para1 Page 3: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin pg 808 Page 4: Lightning War pg 808 Page 5: War in the West pg 808-809 Page 6: Germany Attacks pg 809 Page 7: Dunkirk 809-810 Page 8: Fall of FRA para 1&2 pg 810 Page 9: Fall of FRA para 3&4 pg 810 Page 10: Relentless Attack pg 810-811 Page 11: Courageous Defense para 1 pg 811 Page 12: Courageous Defense para 2&3 pg 811 Page 13: Timeline of all events

7. Invading Poland FRA and GB agree to protect Poland March 31, 1939 GRM & RUS Nonaggression Pact 10 years Sept 1, 1939 Hitler invades Poland Sept 3, 1939 GB and FRA declare war on GRM

8. Lightning War: Definitions Panzer divisions = armored divisions Blitzkreig= “lightning war”; air and land attack that took the enemy by surprise Stuka- dive bombing warplane Sitzkrieg= lull in fighting (“sit-down war”) Luftwaffe= GRM airforce

9. War in the West Maginot Line= massive string of fortifications along FRA’s border w/ GRM 2 problems- protected only part of FRA/GRM boarder Guns pointed east twd GRM Attack through Belgium?? GRM Attack April 1940 Denmark & Norway May 10 Netherlands (5 days), Belgium (3 weeks), LUX (1 day) Then set their sights on FRA

10. War in the West Dunkirk GRM divide GB & FRA British retreat Fall of France June 10 gov’t leaves Paris June 14 th GRM troops enter Paris Vichy, FRA Henri-Philippe Petain Collaboration- close cooperation with GRM FRA govt in GB Resistance mvmts

11. Battle of Britain Relentless Attack Aug-Sept 1940 Bombings Continued until May ‘41 RAF vs Luftwaffe

12. Share Activity!!!

13. Closure How did relations between Britain and Germany change between the Munich Conference and the invasion of Poland?