European violence

1. Part 2:European Violence
• Your goal:
Understand the strategies and battles of
World War II.

2. Violence, 1939–1945
Time Line
1939 Germany 1941 (June) Germans 1944 D-Day invasion
invades Poland. invade Soviet Union. occurs.
(Dec.) Japan attacks
Pearl Harbor.
1939 1945
1940 France 1943 Allies 1945 (May) Germany
surrenders to German; defeat Japan at surrenders. (Aug.)
Battle of Britain Guadalcanal. Atomic bombs
begins. dropped; Japan
surrenders.

3. Blitzkrieg on Poland
September 1, 1939
Soviet
Union
Greater
Germany

4. Defeat of France
June 22, 1940
Greater
Germany
France

5. What About Britain?

6. Winston Churchill
“Those who can win
a war well can
rarely make a
good peace.
And those who
could make a
good peace would
never have won
British Prime Minister
the war.”

7. Battle of Britain
June 1940 --- May 1941
57 day attack on
London and the
Nazis still didn’t win.
This was Hitler’s
first defeat.

8. The invention of radar
was an effective tool for
tracking enemy planes .
Britain got a smuggled
German Enigma code
making machine.
Now they could
understand the Nazis’
encrypted messages.

9. Lend-Lease Act 1941
• 1935-1937 US Is neutral BY LAW
• 1941, Britain is the only Ally left, the
outcome of the war could still be a Nazi
Europe
• 1941 Lend-Lease Act gets involved
• US businesses can now sell weapons to
the Allies, but they have to pick them up
here.

11. Greer Incident 1941
• German submarine fires on the US
destroyer Greer
• It is not the first time U-boats fire on
American ships in World War II
• Greer was not innocent
• President Roosevelt then ordered the Navy
to shoot U-boats on sight.
• US is now more involved, but this is not a
declaration of war --- yet.

12. Greer Incident 1941
USS Greer

13. Barbarossa 1941
Germany invades the Soviet Union

14. Leningrad Blockade
1941-1944
• Germans fully encircled the city
• Attacked the city for 900 days
• Blockade: cut off from outside world
• Winter: no heating, no water supply,
almost no electricity and very little food
• City did not surrender

15. Stalingrad
1942-1943
• Germans
encircled city
• Inner city
fighting
• Red Army
surrounded
Germans and
won the battle

16. Allies Invade Italy 1943
• Mussolini was
arrested by the
Fascist party
• Nazis rescued
him and put him
in northern Italy.

17. D-Day Invasion 1944
• Mussolini was
arrested by the
Fascist party
• Nazis rescued
him and put him
in northern Italy.

18. D-Day Invasion 1944
• Germans
expected an
invasion
• We made them
think it would
come from
Dover
• Check out the
inflatable tank
• We attacked at
Normandy

19. Battle Of The Bulge 1944
• Allies took back
France
• Hitler was
fighting both
West and East
• Germans
pushed deep
into France
• See the bulge?

20. Germany Surrenders 1945

21. Germany Surrenders 1945
Hitler commits suicide as Allied
troops approach.
Mussolini tries to escape to
Switzerland, but is captured
and hung.

22. 1. What is lebensraum?
a) a city in Germany
b) living space
c) a Nazi general
d) a kind of sandwich

23. 2. Anschluss is
a) a Russian winter
b) racism against Jews
c) the joining of Austria and Germany
d) a river in Czechoslovakia

24. 3.The Blitzkrieg on Poland
was important because
a) Poland had never been in a war before
b) Hitler never authorized it
c) It was the start of fighting in World War II
d) Russia tried to stop it

25. 4. In 1936, Hitler sent troops
to occupy a river valley
between Germany and
France called
a) The Rhineland
b) The Wineland
c) Seine River Valley
d) Versailles Canyon

26. 5. Hitler wanted the
Sudetenland from
Czechoslovakia because
a) It had too many Jews in it
b) He wanted the trees
c) He used to live there
d) There were Germans living there

27. 6. Trying to solve a problem
by giving someone what they
want is called
a) apportionment
b) appeasement
c) aftershock
d) punchless

28. 7. After attacking Poland,
Hitler next attacked
a) the Soviet Union
b) Britain
c) North Dakota
d) France

29. 8. In 1939, Germany and the
Soviet Union signed a
nonaggression pact because
a) they have always been friends
b) they wanted to divide up Poland
c) the United States made them
d) they needed money

30. 9. After World War I, the
Weimar Republic was
a) Germany’s official government
b) A country in Africa
c) Hitler’s political party
d) a Dutch trading company

31. 10. When Hitler was in
prison, he wrote a book titled
a) Night
b) Mein Kampf
c) Germany Over All
d) Supersize Me