1. Global Conflict: Axis Advances
How did new technologies affect the fighting in WWII?
What goals did the Axis powers pursue in Europe and Asia?
Why did Japan attack the US?

2. The First Onslaught 1939- Blitzkrieg- “lightning war”
German bombers and tanks smash Poland
Stalin attacks from the East
One month later, Poland exists no more

3. Early Axis Victories France waits behind the Maginot Line
April Germany
Conquers Norway, Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands

4. Miracle At Dunkirk
May Allied forces are trapped between the Nazis and the English Channel
Naval ships and pleasure boats rescued troops
300,000 troops saved
Raised British morale

5. Fall of France Germany attacks from the North and Italy from the South
June France signs the surrender in the same railroad car that Germany had signed the WWI surrender
Vichy- puppet government set up in France by Germany
Charles de Gaulle leads the “free French” forces

6. Modern Warfare Use of sonar and radar New technologies improve weapons
Faster tanks
Submarines
Paratroopers
Scientists helped improve weapons
Use of sonar and radar

7. Battle of Britain Operation Sea Lion
Hitler tries to weaken Britain’s air power and will to resist
August 12, massive German air strikes
RAF fights back

8. London Blitz
Sept. 7, nights straight German planes bomb the capital
15,000 die
Air raid sirens every night
People go to underground shelters
People continued daily lives
Germans finally leave

9. Axis Advances Sept. 1940- fighting in N. Africa
Erwin Rommel- “Desert Fox”- successful
Greece and Yugoslavia conquered
1941- Axis controls W. Europe

10. Operation Barbarossa Hitler’s plan to conquer Russia
Wanted to gain the natural resources
Forests
Wheat
Destroy Communism
Defeat Stalin

11. Germans Advance To Russia
3 million Germans attack
Russia lost 2-3 million soldiers
By the fall, Germans set to take Moscow and Leningrad
“General Winter”- 1000’s freeze and die

12. Siege of Leningrad Sept. 1941- 2 ½ yr. Siege on Leningrad
Food rations- 2 pieces of bread a day
Boiled wallpaper and leather to eat
Over 1 million Russians die
Stalin asks Britain to open a 2nd front

13. American Involvement
1941- Lend-Lease Act- US could sell or lend war materials to any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the US
Atlantic Charter- FDR and Churchill meet secretly on a warship to discuss war goals

14. Tension Between US and Japan
Japan invades SE Asia for oil
US bans sale of oil, iron, and steel
Japanese are furious
Attack is imminent

15. Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 2,400 Americans die 19 ships destroyed
FDR “a date that will live in infamy”
US declares war