33’ Germany withdraws League of nation

35’ Remilitarizes Germany36’ Troops to Rhineland38’ “Anschluss” – Germany/Austria

combine AGAIN38’ Munich Agreement – Hitler gets

portion of Czechoslovakia known as “Sudetenland”

39’ Non Aggression Pact – USSR/Germany

September 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland from the west

USSR invades Poland from the east

Poland is divided between Germany and the USSR

September 3, 1939: England and France declare war on Germany

WWII Begins….

Blitzkrieg – “lightning war”Short campaigns so the war

is quick & has less casualties1. Huge offensive attack

(planes, tanks, artillery) 2. Push through enemy lines

Enemy is now shocked/disorganized

Cannot resupply bc air dominance

3. Encircle enemy who now must surrender

Poland captured in 4 weeks

Norway captured in 4 weeks

Netherlands captured in 5 weeks

Belgium captured in 3 weeks

English blockade of Germany The “Phony War”, Sept 1939-

April 1940England and France place

troops all along French border & engage in a “sitzkrieg”form Maginot line

England and France dropped leaflets into Germany “truth raids”

Allies refused to negotiate and accept Hitler’s conquests

Hitler’s Plan: attack France, England completely isolated and would have to accept his conquests

June 25, 1940: France officially falls to HitlerNorth controlled directlySouth “puppet” government

“Vichy” France

June 10, 1940 Italy declares war on England and France

Wants to recreate Holy Roman Empire in Mediterranean (upset by Treaty of Versailles)

Opportunistic

Summer 1940: German Luftwaffe (air force) starts bombing England

Bomb LondonBritish RAF (Royal Air Force)

used radar to stop German attacks

Hitler scraps the invasion Germany’s first real defeat

USSR takes control East Poland

USSR quickly takes Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

Attempt and fail to take Finland

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THIS WILL CHANGE IN 1941!!!

German’s retreat to focus on Soviet Union

What about that agreement?

"What India was for England the territories of Russia will be for us... The German colonists ought to live on handsome, spacious farms. The German services will be lodged in marvellous buildings, the governors in palaces... The Germans - this is essential - will have to constitute amongst themselves a closed society, like a fortress. The least of our stable-lads will be superior to any native."

May 15, 1941: Operation BarbossaRussia now switched sides!N, Leningrad; C, Moscow, S, KievSS to kill all Communists, “total disregard for human life”

So arrogant only gave summer gear

Initially Germany devastated RussiaSiege of Leningrad “vanish from the

surface of the earth”Dec 5, 1941-1942 winter, Germany came

to a frozen haltCold and lack of supplies (size of

Russia)Scorch earth policySummer 1942; Stalingrad Lacked oil, clothes, munitions:

surrendered Feb 2, 1943At least 27 million soviets died

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