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The Axis Advances

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
-Nov. 9, 1938
-Many Jewish homes and businesses destroyed
-Hitler wanted to force all Jews out of Germany

8. 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

9. 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

10. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

11. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Crematoria at Majdanek
Entrance to Auschwitz
Crematoria at Majdanek

12. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Slave Labor at Buchenwald

13. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Mass Graves at Bergen-Belsen

14. 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, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
-2,800 Americans die, 1,000 injured
-U.S. declares war on Japan

15. Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Pilot

16. A date which will live in infamy!
Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941
A date which will live in infamy!

17. USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor

18. Pearl Harbor Memorial
2,887 Americans Dead!

19. President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War