chapter24 26 war europe part one

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Chapter 26Chapter 26 World War II The War BeginsWorld War II The War Begins

World War II Memorial Washington, DCWorld War II Memorial Washington, DC


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World War II (Video 4 min)


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Steps to WarSteps to War Hitler TakesHitler TakesThe Industrial Rhine River ValleyThe Industrial Rhine River Valley

Hitler ignores the Versailles

Treaty Hitler knew the west would not

raise a hand to stop him, he was

right

March 7, 1936 he took backthe Rhineland

Appeasement European

nations would satisfy

reasonable demands inexchange for peace.

Great Britain allowed Hitler to take

back the Rhineland


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Nazi Soldiers Retake The Rhineland

Major Industrial Region along the Rhine River


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March 13,1938

Hitler Defies Versailles Treaty and Marches into Austria Video 1:00


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AppeasementAppeasementYou have only tolook at the map tosee that nothingwe could do could

possibly saveCzechoslovakiafrom being overrunby the Germans.

- British PM NevilleChamberlain, writing to hissister in 1938.

The Rhineland

The worlds leadersstood by and allowedHitlers rise. This photoshopped imagehumorously shows arather dire situation.Hitler grows in power.


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Munich ConferenceMunich Conference Height of AppeasementHeight of Appeasement British, French, German and Italian representatives

Reached an agreement to allow Hitler to have his demands

Hitler got Sudetenland and the Czechs were

abandoned by the west. Neville Chamberlain Prime Minister of

Britain claimed he had negotiated:

Peace for our timePeace for our time


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The Happy War?

Crest of theSudetenland


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Germany, France, England & Italy Sign Treaty Video 2:00


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Angry Czechs experience Prime Minister Chamberlain's "peace".

Sudeten Woman Weeps as Hitlermotorcade moves through her city.

I will begin by saying what everybody else would like to ignore or forget we have sustained a total and unmitigated

defeat And I will say this, that I believe the Czechs, left to themselves would have been able to make better terms thanthey got. We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France Anddo not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. - Winston Churchill, ParliamentaryDebates, 1938

From left to right, Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini as they prepareto sign the Munich Agreement


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Nazi-Soviet Pact Allows Hitler Invades Poland

Hitler demanded the Polish port of Danzig

Great Britain offered to protect Poland

France & Britain tried to negotiate a deal with

Soviets to protect Poland August 23, 1939 Hitler and Stalin agree on a treaty:

Nazi-SovietNon-Aggression Pact

Stalin gets control of Eastern Poland

Sept. 1, 1939 Hitler invades Poland

The map shows the beginning of World War II inSeptember 1939 in a wider European context.


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Hitler Betrays Poland to Sign Friendship Treaty with Moscow (USSR) Video 1:00


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Sept 1, 1939Hitler Addresses Reichstag

I do not want to be anything but the first soldier of theGerman Reich. I have once more put on theuniform which was once most holy and precious

to me. I shall only take it off after victory or I shall

not live to see the end

Just as I myself am ready to risk my life any time formy people and for Germany, so I demand the same ofeveryone else. But anyone who thinks that he canoppose this national commandment, whether

directly or indirectly, will die!

Traitors can expect death!- FromNazism 1919-1935, A Documentary Reader

Hitler reviews troops inWarsaw, Poland. October 5,

1939


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German Soldiers Enter Poland


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German Blitzkrieg 1940German Blitzkrieg 1940


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German soldiers march through Warsaw, Poland.


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German Blitzkrieg lightning war

using armored columns called

panzer divisions with air support Stuka dive-bomber planes first Then, Panzer Tanks = 300 per division

Sept.1939: In 4 weeks, Poland Surrenders, then

April 1940: Denmark, Norway, Yugoslavia

May 1940: Netherlands, Belgium and then France!

The classic characteristic of what is commonly known as "blitzkrieg" is a highly

mobile form of infantry and armor working in combined arms teams.


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German Stuka dive-bombers


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September 1, 1939 Hitler Invades Poland (Video 1:39)


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Danish troops await a

German Invasion of

Denmark, 1940


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AXIS Powers Pact ofSteel

May 22, 1939

Alliance of Germany and

Kingdom of Italy


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Axis Powers later add Japan

with the Tripartite Pact September 1940.


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Battle of France, 1940

German Troops in Paris, France 1940

Hitlers Troops Bear Down on Paris


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Dunkirk Triumph of man over machine (Video 2:20)


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Battle of Dunkirk

Germans drive the Allies into the

sea.


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Maginot Line

French fortifications protecting from German invasion.


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June 10, 1940 Mussolini Enters the War (Video 1:00)


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Hitler Takes Continental EuropeHitler Takes Continental Europe

French sign an armistice onJune 22, 1940 with Germany.

Britain was his last target to defeat US stands by under

isolationist policy FDR wanted to go to war, but did not have

public support


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HitlerGloats Over Victories Video :40


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