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    Hitler's blitzkrieg strategy allowed Germany to quickly conquer Poland in 1939. Germany then invaded Denmark and Norway in 1940. In May and June of 1940, Germany achieved stunning victories over France by going through the Ardennes forest and surrounding the Allied forces at Dunkirk. With France defeated, Britain stood alone against Germany. During the summer of 1940, Germany bombed British cities in the Battle of Britain but failed to defeat the Royal Air Force. In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, achieving major territorial gains but failing to take Moscow or Leningrad.

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    Hitler's blitzkrieg strategy allowed Germany to quickly conquer Poland in 1939. Germany then invaded Denmark and Norway in 1940. In May and June of 1940, Germany achieved stunning victories over France by going through the Ardennes forest and surrounding the Allied forces at Dunkirk. With France defeated, Britain stood alone against Germany. During the summer of 1940, Germany bombed British cities in the Battle of Britain but failed to defeat the Royal Air Force. In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, achieving major territorial gains but failing to take Moscow or Leningrad.

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    Hitler's blitzkrieg strategy allowed Germany to quickly conquer Poland in 1939. Germany then invaded Denmark and Norway in 1940. In May and June of 1940, Germany achieved stunning victories over France by going through the Ardennes forest and surrounding the Allied forces at Dunkirk. With France defeated, Britain stood alone against Germany. During the summer of 1940, Germany bombed British cities in the Battle of Britain but failed to defeat the Royal Air Force. In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, achieving major territorial gains but failing to take Moscow or Leningrad.

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    Hitler’s Lightning War Part 1 of 2

    Hitler’s Lightning War


    Chapter 16.1
    Europe
    Germany’s lightning attack
    • September 1, 1939,
    after signing
    nonaggression pact,
    Hitler Invades Poland.
    • France and Britain
    declare war on
    Germany September 3.
    • Poland fell before any
    help could arrive.
    Blitzkrieg (lightning war)
    • Poland fell to Germany’s strategy, the
    blitzkrieg:
    1. Fast moving tanks and planes
    2. Invasion of massive infantry force
    3. Idea was to surprise and overwhelm the
    enemy
    Soviet Invasion
    • September 17, Stalin
    invades eastern Poland
    • Annexes countries
    north of Poland.
    • Finland resists
    • Stalin sends 1 million
    troops to crush them
    Phony War
    • After declaring war Britain
    and France station troops
    along Maginot Line.
    • Fortified positions along
    French/German border
    • Waited for Germans to
    attack
    • Nothing happens. Armies
    stare at each other
    • April 9. 1940, Hitler surprise
    attack on Denmark and
    Norway
    Maginot Line
    Fall of France
    • Hitler sends large tank
    force through the
    Ardennes in France
    • Sneak past Maginot
    Line
    • Cross France to north
    coast in ten days
    Rescue at Dunkirk
    • Germany traps Allies in
    Lille in North France
    • Allies outgunned with
    backs to the sea
    • Great Britain uses 850
    ships to rescue the
    Allied army
    • May 26-June 4
    • Save 338,000 soldiers
    France Falls
    • After Dunkirk French
    resistance fails
    • June 14 Germany takes
    Paris
    • June 22 took control of
    northern France
    • Left puppet government
    in southern France
    • French government in
    Exile in London under
    Charles de Gaulle
    The Battle of Britain
    • Britain alone against
    Germany
    • Churchill Speech
    • Summer 1940 Hitler
    bombs British aircraft
    factories and airfields
    • September begin
    bombing cities
    Battle of Britain
    • RAF outnumbered
    • Radar and German code
    making machine help
    RAF start to win
    • To avoid raids by RAF
    Germany gave up
    bombing during the day
    • October 1940 only night
    bombing
    • Called Battle of Britain
    Allies Lesson
    • Bombing ended May 10, • Taught Allies they could
    1941 block Hitler’s attacks
    • Hitler stunned by British
    resistance
    SECTION 16.1:
    WORLD WAR TWO:
    Africa, Eastern Europe
    and the Soviet Union
    Germany invades Poland
    USSR invades Poland

    USSR invades Baltics

    USSR invades Finland


    Germany invades
    Denmark and Norway
    Germany invades
    Benelux nations

    Germany invades France

    Battle of Britain
    and the Blitz

    Germany United Kingdom

    USSR Italy
    Italy invades Egypt

    British forces kick the


    Italians’ fascist backsides

    Germany United Kingdom

    USSR Italy
    The British couldn’t lose the canal, or access to the
    oil fields in the Middle East (most of which they
    controlled). Of course, Hitler wanted it too.

    Hitler sent Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, to take


    on the British in North Africa.
    The Germans, of course, found the Lost Ark of the
    Covenant and if it weren’t for Indiana Jones, all
    would be lost….

    … no, not really.


    Rommel chases the
    British out of Egypt

    They would go back and


    forth for some time

    Eventually, the
    Americans under
    General Patton show up
    and get rid of the
    Germans for all

    Germany United Kingdom

    USSR Italy
    Of course, Hitler didn’t care that much about Africa –
    he told the whole world in Mein Kampf that his goal
    was to invade the Soviet Union.

    He wanted lebensraum.

    But first he had to build some bases to supply the


    massive armies he would need.
    Germany “persuades”
    Hungary, Bulgaria and
    Romania to join his
    cause.

    They didn’t like the


    Soviets much either.

    Germany and Italy


    invade Yugoslavia,
    Albania and Greece –
    countries that weren’t
    willing to go along with
    Hitler’s plan.

    Germany United Kingdom

    USSR Italy
    On June 22, 1941 Operation Barbarossa was launched.

    Stalin’s top advisers had warned him of an attack.

    The Red Army was unprepared, poorly equipped,


    poorly trained, and poorly led. It was a complete
    disaster for the USSR.

    Uncle Joe was TIME’s


    Man of the Year in 1940
    Army Group Center Army Group
    tried to reach South tried to
    Moscow and force push into the
    Stalin to surrender. Caucasus region
    – rich with oil.
    Prisoners and troops
    from Siberia were Hitler decided he
    shipped in to stop needed to take
    the Nazis some 20 the city of
    miles from Moscow, Stalingrad on the Army Group North
    saving the city. way. surrounded
    Most of the Soviet Leningrad for nearly
    Air Force was 700 days.
    destroyed on the
    first day while still on Hitler tried to starve
    the ground. the city to death, but
    they hung on.
    Stalingrad didn’t
    work out so well for
    the Germans…

    (more on that later)


    So… what’s going with
    the USA anyway??
    isolationism
    Neutrality Acts
    (1935-7)
    Lend-Lease Act
    (March, 1941) Atlantic
    Charter
    Undeclared naval
    war with Germany

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