1. The Axis Advances
Chapter 14 Section 2

2. I. The German army used the tactics of Blitzkrieg to conquer almost all of Europe in three short years. Seeds of the Nazi Empire’s eventual destruction were sown at the Battle of Britain and the assault on the Soviet Union

6. A. German Offensive
1. Invasion of Poland made possible through non-aggression pact with Soviet Union
2.Great Britain and France brought into war

7. 3. Poland was first Blitzkrieg -”lightning war”
a. Panzer tanks
b. Stuka dive bombers
4. Evacuation of Dunkirk

12. B. Attack on Western Europe
1. Belgium, Holland fall
2. Norway- Quisling
3. Defeat of France 1940
a. failure of Maginot Line
b. Vichy Government

16. C. Battle of Britain
1. Winston Churchill
2. the “Blitz”
3. Luftwaffe
4. turning point of the war- staging area for D-Day

32. American support-FDR
a. Atlantic Charter- free trade
b. Lend Lease
c. Destroyer Deal

34. Eastern Europe
1. invasion of Soviet Union
2. fall of Balkan States
3. Italy- Albania
4. 20 million Russians killed
5. German military high
command disagrees with
Hitler’s war aims

36. Results of attack on Soviet Union
1. Massive casualties
2. Tremendous drain on German resources
3. Foundations for German defeat

38. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and brought the U. S
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and brought the U.S. into the war

39. Japanese expansion
1. The Greater Asia- Co Prosperity Sphere
2. China- raw materials
3. Indochina- food
4. Indonesia- oil
5. Australia- mineral wealth

40. Conflict with U.S.
1. Philippines
2. Japan signs treaty with Germany
3. FDR cuts off trade to Japan
U.S. demand Japanese withdrawal from China

42. War with U.S.
1. Pearl Harbor
2. mistake or gamble?
3. possible sites?-Did we know?
4. “Day that will live on in infamy”
5. U.S. enters war

51. “Island hopping”
1. Allied strategy involved attacking and seizing those Pacific islands least heavily defended by Japan
2. Masterminded by Douglas Mac Arthur

52. Allied counterattack
1. The Doolittle raids on Tokyo-psychological impact-we could strike at Japan

53. Battle of the Coral Sea halts Japanese assault on Australia

55. 3. Midway- destruction of Japanese Navy

56. Guadalcanal How the War Would be Fought

58. Life Under Nazi and Japanese Occupation

59. Nazi Occupation
Secret Police and informers

60. Nazi Occupation
Collaborators

61. Nazi Occupation
Partisans

62. Japanese Occupation
The Rape of Nanking
( Nanjing)

64. Japanese Occupation Occupation of Korea 300,000 enslaved
200,000 “comfort women”
7000 die in prison

65. Japanese Occupation
Bataan Death March