1. What policy allowed Hitler to conquer so much territory?
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What policy allowed Hitler to conquer so much territory?

2. Hitler’s lightening war
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3. Germany’s Lightening War
Sept : Germany invades Poland
Uses blitzkrieg “lightening war”
Sept 3: France and GB declare war
Soviets conquer ½ Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland
France expects war on Maginot Line
Germany instead invades Denmark and Norway

6. The Fall of France
May 1940: Germany sweeps through Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
Traps French soldiers at Dunkirk
GB sends ships to rescue them
France falls June 22, 1940
France sets up in- exile govt in GB
Leader: Charles de Gaulle

10. The Battle of Britain Britain standing alone against Hitler (audio)
Sends in Luftwaffe to defeat RAF
Two technological devices turn the tide:
Enigma
Radar
May 10, 1941: Hitler calls of his attacks
Proves he can be blocked

13. Axis Attacks N. Africa
Sept. 1940: Mussolini attacks British- controlled Egypt and Suez Canal (key: oil fields)
Feb. 1941: British counterattack
Hitler saves Mussolini
Sends General Erwin Rommel (Afrika Korps)
Both sides advance and retreat
Rommel seizes Tobruk, Libya but NOT Suez

14. Fighting on Eastern Front
Countries surrounding Soviet Union key to Hitler’s plan
1941: Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary join him
Yugoslavia and Greece fall within days
June 22, 1941: Leads Operation Barbarossa
Soviets not prepared
Use scorched-earth policy again
Tries to conquer Leningrad and Moscow
March 1943: retreats after losing 500,000 lives

20. U.S. Aids It’s Allies March 1941: Congress passes Lend-Lease act
Can lend or lease arms/supplies to any country vital to U.S.
Germans attack U.S. ship – puts us in undeclared naval war