1. Totalitarian Aggression Causes of World War II

2. Versailles Peace Treaty 1919 War Reparations Territorial Issues Disarmament All lead to German discontent and economic distress – inflation, unemployment, high debt

3. 1914 Political Map of Europe

4. Map of Europe after WWI

5. Nazi Aggression 1936-1938

6. Reoccupation of Rhineland March 1936

7. Anschluss – Occupation of Austria March 1938

8. Munich Conference September 1938 – Appeasement “Peace in our time” Neville Chamberlain

9. Invasion of Czechoslovakia- March 1939

10. Non-Aggression Pact or Marriage from Hell

11. Blitzkrieg in Poland September 1, 1939 – WWII begins

12. Fall of France - June 1940

13. Battle of Britain August-September 1940 (Operation Sea Lion)

14. Hitler invades Soviet Union – July 1941 (Operation Barbarossa)

16. Winston Churchill Quote to Parliament in early 1940 as the German war machine was preparing to invade France We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, 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 fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,