1. Day 2
Europe at War
A. The 1939 invasion of Poland by Germany took just 4 weeks.
The speed of the German army stunned the world, Called blitzkrieg “lightning war.”

3. Britain Prepared for War
Israel and the Occupied Territories
Britain Prepared for War
Operation Pied Piper – relocated 3.5 million people Those relocated were children and pregnant women from towns to the countryside.

4. Great Britain Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister.
Israel and the Occupied Territories
Great Britain
Chamberlain is replaced…
Winston
Churchill
becomes
Prime Minister.

5. B. In the spring of 1940, Hitler invaded Denmark and Norway.
In May, Germany attacked the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
The Germans
trapped the
British forces
on the beaches
of Dunkirk, France.

6. C. Operation Dynamo - British navy and private boats
evacuated 338,000
(British & French) troops
from Dunkirk, France

7. D. Germany now controlled western and. central Europe
D. Germany now controlled western and central Europe. Only Britain remained undefeated.
The British asked the U.S. for help.
A series of Neutrality Acts passed during the 1930s prevented the United States from involvement in European conflicts.
Cash and Carry (1939) – U.S. would sell weapons to European democracies on a cash-and-carry basis. America becomes the “Arsenal of Democracy.”

8. Aided by a good radar system, the British fought back.
E. In August 1940 the Luftwaffe, the German air force, began bombing Britain.
Aided by a good radar system, the British fought back.
German Messerschmitt

9. British Radar System

10. Israel and the Occupied Territories
These raids, along with the British efforts to counter them, became
known as the
Battle of Britain.
Hitler believed that he could destroy the British people’s will to fight.

11. Britsh Spitfire Israel and the Occupied Territories
The Royal Air Force (RAF) British pilots flew combat missions day after day – night after night.
Britsh Spitfire

12. FDR insists that US should begin a program of Lend-Lease
F. Many Americans don’t want to trade with warring nations (might draw US into war…)
FDR insists that US should begin a program of Lend-Lease
Lend-lease=we give supplies to Allied powers, they promise to return them after the war
Remember the Lusitania

13. US is slowly creeping closer to war…
Neutrality Act of 1935 and 1937-US doesn’t sell any weapons to Allies
1939 (cash-and-carry) US begins to sell weapons to the Allies
Lend-Lease Act of 1941-US gives military aid to Allied nations…promise to return after the war.

14. By June 1941 – Germany controlled almost ALL of western Europe.
Invasion for Soviet Union
By June 1941 – Germany controlled almost ALL of western Europe.
Blue – German Controlled

15. II. Germany’s Attack on the Soviet Union
A. Operation Barbarossa – without declaring war, German armies invaded the Soviet Union
on June 22, 1941.

16. B. Soviets used the same scorched-. earth methods against Hitler that
B. Soviets used the same scorched- earth methods against Hitler that their ancestors had used against Napoleon.

17. C. Germany made great progress in. taking over much of the Soviet
C. Germany made great progress in taking over much of the Soviet Union. However, in Nov winter began in the Soviet Union.
The Germans were not equipped for the bitter Russian winter.
This was the first time in the war that the Germans had been stopped.

18. III. Japanese Aggression in the Pacific
A. To become an empire Japan needed natural resources.
They looked
to expand into
Southeast Asia
for these
resources.

19. B. In 1940, the Japanese demanded the
B. In 1940, the Japanese demanded the right to exploit economic resources in French Indochina.
The U.S. responded by imposing economic sanctions unless Japan withdrew.
Now called: Laos, Vietnam,
and Cambodia

20. C. “Economic sanctions” means. restrictions on trade that are
C. “Economic sanctions” means restrictions on trade that are intended to enforce
international law.
U.S. placed an embargo on the sale of oil and scrap iron to Japan.

21. Relations between US and Japan worsened under
Japan’s new leader
Premier Hideki Tōjō

22. IV. America’s Entry into the War
A. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked the U.S. naval base
at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
They also attacked the Philippines and captured the American island of Guam.

23. USS Arizona burning

24. USS Shaw explodes

26. B-17C at Hickam Field

27. USS Arizona burning

28. Pulling bodies out of the water
USS Arizona turret
Pulling bodies out of the water

29. U.S.S. Arizona

30. B. The Japanese thought that their. attacks on the U. S. fleet would
B. The Japanese thought that their attacks on the U.S. fleet would destroy the U.S. Navy and lead the Americans to accept Japanese domination in the Pacific.
However, the attack on Pearl Harbor had the opposite effect.
It united the American people and convinced the nation that it should enter the war.