1. Chapter 23 Section 2 World War II Erupts Riddlebarger
Europe Erupts In War
Chapter 23
Section 2
World War II Erupts
Riddlebarger

4. Appeasement Neville Chamberlain and appeasement
Winston Churchill -a critic
Wikipedia images

5. Hitler’s Early Moves March 1939- Czechoslovakia
Chamberlain error.
Alliance with Italy & Mussolini
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6. Stalin-Hitler Alliance
Aug Signs non-aggression pact with Soviet Union.
Why?

7. Europe on the eve of World War II, 1939

8. Hitler Attacks Poland
Poland
Soviets role

9. Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg (lightning war)
Historical- armored warfare demo

10. Poland after German/USSR invasion
wiki

11. German Forces Turn West
Sep War declared
Allies
Sitzkrieg or “phony war”
Soviets & Finland
Winter War

12. Spring 1940 Lull in fighting ends Netherlands & Belgium Dunkirk
Denmark & Norway
Atlantic access
Netherlands & Belgium
Dunkirk
Dunkirk has been a miracle of deliverance, achieved by valour, by perseverance, by perfect discipline, and resourced by skill and unconquerable fidelity. But we must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations...-- Winston Churchill, 4 June 1940

13. France Falls Strike towards France begins in May 1940 Maginot Line
1st: wiki
2nd:
Strike towards France begins in May 1940
Netherlands & Belgium
Maginot Line

14. German invasion of France
Ardennes forest in Belgium.

15. Germans capture Paris Paris
By end of June 1940, French surrender to Germans & Italians.
French leaders flee

16. Battle of Britain Now Britain stands alone Winston Churchill

17. Battle of Britain continued
German plan:
RAF
airfields and shipping
Radar
Luftwaffe
Strategic shift
Incite terror
London (Blitz)
Civilians impact

18. London Blitz

19. Germans Fail Late ‘40 end 8 months 1st German failure
Hitler cancels Operation Sea Lion.
Impact on Luftwaffe
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much
owed by so many to so few.”
-Winston Churchill

20. Tensions in East Asia Japanese nationalists influence
imperial power.
1937- began war with China
Massacre in Nanking

21. Axis Alliance 1940 tripartite pact 1941- Take French Indochina
Axis Powers
1941- Take French Indochina
seek oil & other natural resources
Threatens British & French interests

22. US Reaction FDR takes steps to punish Japan
embargo
US & Japanese officials meet- no compromise reached.
Gen. Hideki Tojo (late 1941)