Section 2 Page 930 The Axis Advances
Blitzkrieg– lightning war (with the quickness) Russia also begins to take over territory Germany takes over Norway and Denmark Britain and France declare war on Germany in 1939 after Hitler invades Poland Poland defeated within a month Allies couldn’t get there to help in time
Axis Powers look to the west -Germany begins to advance into northern France -Italy joins in the invasion and attacks France from the south -France is defeated -Great Britain was the only country left to fight the Nazis
Germany launches “the Blitz” Germany begins to bomb Britain using its Luftwaffe (air force) Britain’s air force was outnumbered but had two advantages 1. radar to tell where and how many ships were coming 2. enigma - decoding machine of Nazi secret messages with this knowledge, Britain stops Hitler and he calls off the attacks
Germany looks East Germany attacks Russia Breaks their peace agreement Russia was retreating and burning everything as they went Winter comes and Germany is unprepared for the cold they try to retreat but Hitler tells them to stay, stalemate occurs
The Holocaust -mass killings of Jews and other so-called inferiors -used propaganda to influence people -Hitler wanted Lebensraum (living space) for his Aryans at first, Jews not allowed to be in the government Nuremberg Laws - laws that said Jews were no longer citizens, made them lose jobs and property had to wear yellow stars to identify them as Jews
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) -Nov. 9, 1938 -Many Jewish homes and businesses destroyed -Hitler wanted to force all Jews out of Germany
Jews evacuate rest of the world running out of space for Jewish refugees Hitler then forces Jews to live in ghettos (segregated Jewish areas) in Poland Jews held in by soldiers, stone walls and barbed wire *object was for the Jews to die from starvation or disease
Jews not dying fast enough The Final Solution Jews not dying fast enough Death Camps genocide, or killing, of an entire race of people Jews rounded up and killed or placed in: concentration camps (slave labor camps) -extermination camps built also, filled with gas chambers -approximately 6 million Jews die during holocaust
Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed
Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Crematoria at Majdanek Entrance to Auschwitz Crematoria at Majdanek
Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Slave Labor at Buchenwald
Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Mass Graves at Bergen-Belsen
Japan and the war in the Pacific -overcrowded and needed more natural resources -invade China and then European and American colonies in Asia -U.S. sends aid to China to help slow down the Japanese -U.S. cuts off oil trade with Japan -December 7, 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii -2,800 Americans die, 1,000 injured -U.S. declares war on Japan
Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Pilot
A date which will live in infamy! Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941 A date which will live in infamy!
USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Memorial 2,887 Americans Dead!
President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War