1. World War II

2. Treaty of Versailles ends World War I

3. Terms of the Treaty
Germany loses European territories & overseas colonies
German army is reduced to 100,000 men & limited amounts & types of armaments
War Guilt Clause
$32 Billion in Reparations

5. Weimar Republic – Germany gov’t from 1919 – 1933
Nazi Party – Political Party in Germany
Jan Hitler named Chancellor
Feb. 27, 1933: Reichstag Fire: Hitler assumes full dictatorial powers
Third Reich – name for Germany between 1933 and 1945
Hitler’s Nazi Government

6. "We are overpopulated and cannot feed ourselves from our own resources"

7. Lebensraum Means “living space”
Germany needed more space in order for their “Superior” Aryan population to have room to develop.
Look towards Eastern Europe
Anschluss – Germany annexes Austria in March 1938
March 1939 – Germany invades and occupies Czechoslovakia

9. Japan Invades Manchuria 1931 Begins Creating a Japanese Empire in the Pacific

11. Reaction to Germany’s expansion
Allied Powers:
Appeasement: the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid a war
Munich Conference
Let Germany keep Austria and Czechoslovakia, but nothing else…
Italy & Japan see Hitler’s growing strength and make an alliance known as the Axis Powers

13. September 1, 1939 Germany Invades Poland

14. World War II Map Allied Powers Axis Powers Great Britain France USSR
United States
Germany
Italy
Japan

15. Blitzkrieg: “lightening war”
Germany’s WWII Military Strategy
Used in Poland as well as Western Europe
Depended on surprise and overwhelming force

16. Fall of France
May 1940 – Hitler sweeps through the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
Begins to attack France
June 14, 1940: Germany occupies Paris
June 22, 1940: France surrenders to Germany

18. Battle of Britain
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets…we shall never surrender”
Hitler wants to destroy the Royal Air Force and land ground soldiers on England’s shore
Summer 1940: Luftwaffe (Germany’s air force) begins bombing GB

19. British are able to resist
May 10, 1941: Hitler calls off attacks & changes focus to Mediterranean and Eastern Europe
RADAR = extremely important
Shows that Hitler can be blocked

20. Operation Barbarossa Germany’s plan to invade Soviet Union
June 22, 1941: begin invasion
USSR is not prepared for attack
Germans make in over 500 miles into USSR within one week

21. September 8, 1941: Germanys begin siege of Leningrad
October 2, 1941: begin advancement to Moscow
Scorched-Earth Policy
Germany gains nothing but over 500,000 Germany lives lost

22. Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941: Japan attacks the US Navy base at Pearl Harbor
US declares War on Japan & joins the allies