1. Bell Ringer
What factors do you think a country’s leaders consider when deciding whether to surrender or fight?

2. 9.1 Hitler’s Lightning War

3. A Pact of Non-Aggression
Stalin isn’t eager to join the West after not being invited to Munich Conference
Germany and Soviet Union will split territories they conquer

4. The Phony War
French and British troops sat behind the Maginot Line waiting for Germany
Germany sat behind their Siegfried Line waiting for the Allies
“Sitting war” or
“Phony War”

5. Winston Churchill New Prime Minister 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.”

6. The Desert Fox Axis attack Africa British defeat the Italians
Hitler sends in the Afrika Corps and General Erwin Rommel
Defeat the British

7. Operation Barbarossa Plan to invade Soviet Union
Soviets were unprepared
Soviet troops=largest army in the world but not trained or well equipped

8. General Frost Strikes Again
Used scorched-earth tactic and waited out the Germans
Winter came
Hitler: “No retreat!”
Germany gained nothing and lost 500,000 German lives

9. America Responds to the Battle of Britain
The Lend-Lease Act: The US could provide arms to any country considered “vital to the defense of the US” as long as they promised to return or rent the weapons after the war
Atlantic Charter: Agreement between FDR and Churchill laying out the democratic goals of the war