2. World War II
War in Europe

3. Vocab List 27 P 218 CH 12 -Periphery -Convoy System -Anschluss (P 268)
-Blitzkrieg (P 269) -Luftwaffe (P270)
-Hedgerow -D-day (P 306)

4. What Hitler was like:

5. I. Background A) Hitlers Rise to Power
Leader of Nazi Party - anti-semitic (=hate Jews) and hated ToV terms against Germany
Became Fuhrer (Leader) by using his StormTroopers to scare Germans into voting for him (Killed all other politicians (Night of Long Knives), silenced all other political parties)
2) Once in Power - he defied the ToV
Expanded Luftwaffe (airforce) and Army
Called for unification of German Speaking People (annexing Austria & Czechoslovakia)
Lebensraum - idea that German people deserve more land
3) Appeasement -France & GB did nothing in response to above hoping to avoid a war

6. II. Hitler Invades! A) Poland - 1939
Made pact with Russia to divide Poland
Poland attacked on both sides
60,000 killed by Germans-
20,000 killed by Russians
B) THEN Germans invade Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Greece
C) France
Made the French sign an armistice agreement in the same train-car that Germans signed the ToV
D) BUT NOT – Great Britain
Battle of Britain - Luftwaffe vs. British Royal Airforce. Both London & Berlin bombed.
Never gave up! Britain never invaded.

7. Poland invaded

8. Hitler in Paris

9. Battle of Britain

10. Hitler Invades Poland

11. III. Hitler vs. Stalin Hitler Turns East
Believed Russian people to be inferior
Winter War - between Finland & Russia, Finland put up a great fight humiliating Russia (although Russia won).
Google: “Simo Hayha”
Hitler sent 4 Million soldiers into Russia
Battle at Stalingrad - over 2 million people died in one battle
Bloodiest Battle in History
Germany could not defeat Russia because of the horrible cold
***MOST OF WW2 IS GERMANY VS RUSSIA***

12. MORTAL KOMBATTT

13. Hitler goes East vid

14. Eastern Front vid (If time)

15. IV. Here comes ‘Merica A) Northern Africa – 1943 - USA helps England
B) Then Italy
300,000 Allied Soldiers Killed
Captured Rome by 1944, ending Mussolini reign
C) Tehran Conference Stalin (Russia), Churchill (England) and FDR (USA) meet to plan joint attack on Germany

17. V. Germany Falls! A) D-Day
Over 100,000 Soldiers allies make it to Normandy beach
Crucial to help soviets on eastern Front
B) Battle of the Bulge - Last German offensive trying to cut off allied troops from suppliers in Belgium. Germans lose 100,000 soldiers.
C) Russia invades Berlin
Hitler commits suicide in a bunker 4/30/1945

18. D Day famous photo

19. D-Day!!!

20. VI. Victory for the Allies!
V-E day! (Victory in Europe) May 8, 1945 Germans Surrender unconditionally
V-J Day is three months later (Victory against Japan) official ending of WWII

22. VII. Nuremberg Trials 150 Nazi leaders prosecuted
31 Sentenced to death
119 imprisoned
Punished those responsible for WWII and the Holocaust/Genocides

23. Germans Defeated vid (if time