- 1. World War II 1939-1945 LIC. LAURA FLORES
2. In the spring of 1939 Hitler made new demands:
- That Danzing, plus a German railway and a highway route through
the Polish Corridor, be returned to Germany
- Finally Britain and France ended their policy of appeasement
and pledged to defend Poland if Hitler threatened its
independence
3. Reasons why Hitler and Stalin signed a ten-year nonaggression
pact:
- Hitler wanted to avoid a two-front war.
- Stalin wanted to gain territory
- In private they agreed to divide Eastern Europe.
- Soviet Union was to have Finland and the Baltic countries of
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Germany and Russia would each take
over a part of Poland.
4. Hitlers advantage for the agreement was clear:
- Germany need not to fear a two front war like the one it had
faced in 1914
5. Germany invaded Poland
- August 31, 1939. Hitler needed an excuse for attacking
Poland:
- A small band of German soldiers disguised themselves in Polish
uniforms.
- The Poles he said had violated Germanys borders
- September 1 st1939 German planes roared over Poland.
6. Germany Blitzkrieg
- In less than 48 hours the Germans wiped out the Polish air
force, army, railroads, telegraph centers and factoriesthey were
demoralized, stunned, defeated.
- Germans using the fast moving weapons of modern war, the armor
tank and the airplanes, called their sudden massive attack
blitzkrieg
7. France fell to the Nazis
- The German attack on France was similar to the beginning of
WWI. The German army swung west around French defenses and struck
through Belgium.
- Key difference between the two wars, German attack: German
blitzkrieg
- Two thirds of Northern France were occupied by Nazis, Petains
government was to hold the southern part in the city ofVichy
8. German troops blitzed the West
- In May, 1941 Neville Chamberlain was forced to resign as prime
minister, his successor was Winston Churchill
- who said: theres no quick road to victory,I have nothing to
offer but blood and tears
9. Germany attacked Great Britain
- In all of Europe, only one country still held out against
Hitler, this country was Great Britain
- Germans prepared for Operation Sea Lion
- Hitler sent his Luftwaffe(bombers)
10. British secret weapons
- America aided the Allies. Roosevelt persuaded the Congress to
allowed the sale of weapons to fighting nations
- US gave Britain 50 destroyers
11. Hitler invaded the Soviet Union
- Valuable mineral resources
- Germans conquered the Balkans, destroyed 1000 Soviet planes and
the Red Army
- Hitlers campaign turned into a disaster