1. Do Now: Grab a worksheet from the front, and answer the ‘Do Now’
Do Now: Grab a worksheet from the front, and answer the ‘Do Now’. Homework: NOTES ON 24.2 DUE TUESDAY

2. Objectives: Students will be able to
Objectives: Students will be able to... (1) describe the events leading up to World War (2) analyze a video clip for key information

3. Leaders of Europe Leaders didn’t stop Hitler. Why?
Fearful of another BLOODY war
Thought request to unite German lands reasonable
Thought Nazis would be more interested in peace once they got land

4. Hitler’s Demands GOAL: Unify German Speaking People
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Took moved troops into Rhineland in 1936

5. Austria Anschluss
1938 – Hitler and the Germans invade Austria (most Austrians spoke German and welcomed becoming a part of Germany)
But…Hitler and the Germans were expanding – and the WWI treaty told them not to…

6. Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland)
After taking Austria – Hitler wanted more
His next desire is the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
The Czechs didn’t want to give this area to Germany – nor did France and Russia

7. Munich Conference GB, FR, Italy, Germany
Czechs had to give up Sudetenland
British step in to offer a peace and avoid war
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain meets with Hitler in Munich, Germany
Hitler has to promise he is done seeking territory
Appeasement: Giving concessions in exchange for peace

8. Guess what???
Hitler violates Munich agreement and takes over ALL of Czechoslovakia…

9. Reactions to Munich
Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who came up with the agreement, said that he had achieved “peace in our time”
Winston Churchill, the future Prime Minister, said: “Britain and France had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.”

10. Part 1 (36:30-47:30)

11. Starts to Demand Poland
Hitler now wants Poland – Danzig

12. Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact
Yeah….this will work out…
Hitler signed a Non-Aggression Pact with Stalin and the Soviet Union (they agree NO WAR) – France and Britain lost an ally in Stalin
Immediately after – Germany invaded Poland (France & Britain declare war on Germany) WWII officially begins

13. What do you know about Blitzkrieg?

14. Part 2 (50:30-57:00)

15. Fall of France – Maginot Line

16. Miracle of Dunkirk Only port left was Dunkirk
Hitler stopped pursuit for a reason still unknown today
338,000 soldiers were evacuated safely
Became known as “Miracle at Dunkirk”
France would surrender 3 weeks later

17. Britain and Germany
What do you think the image on the right symbolizes or means?

18. Britain Remains Defiant!
Winston Churchill new Prime Minster
Peace was NOT an option
“Even though large tracts of Europe have fallen…we shall not flag or fail…We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender.”
Quoted in Freedom of Fear

19. Battle of Britain Air force battle (Luftwaffe vs. Royal Air Force)
Cities and civilians targeted
Britain outnumbered, but prevail mainly because of new invention, radar
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
Churchill
Germany gave up

22. Part 3 (1:02-116)