Copy of Chapter 26: World II

V. Fall of France

1. Stalin sent Soviet

troops to occupy the

eastern half of Poland

2. Bulgaria, Romania &

Hungary joined Hitler

through force.

1. 1940 GR swept thru the Netherlands,

Belgium, & Luxembourg

2. Stalin then took Lithuania, Latvia, &

Estonia fell without a struggle, but

Finland resisted.

N. 1938 Hitler took Bohemia & Moravia

3. Yugoslavia & Greece

resisted

a. Yugoslavia fell in 11 days

b. Greece fell in 17 days

2. Then, he sent more troops thru

Ardennes, Luxembourg, & Belgium

O. GB, FR offered to take Poland

P. FR & GB began negotiating w/the Soviets

4. Hitler invades the USSR

a. 1 million Russians die in

Leningrad

b. scorched-earth policy

c. 500,000 Germans dead

W. Battle of Britain

U. The Phony War

1. GB, FR line up behind the Maginot Line

2. GR lined up behind the Siegfried Line

3. Germans called it the "sitting war"

4. the media referred to it as the phony

war

5. April 9, 1940 calm ended; Hitler invaded

Norway & Denmark

6. Norway fell after 2 months

7. GR built bases there

to attack GB

Q. 1939 Hitler & the Soviet Union signed the

Non-Aggression Pact

1. Stalin mad b/c he was excluded from the Munich

Conference

2. secret alliance- Russia & Germany agreed to split

Poland amongst themselves; Russia gets Baltic

Republics

1. fall of France left Britain

alone against the Nazis

3. By May, the Allies were trapped on the

beaches of Dunkirk.

4. GB set out to rescue 338,000 army

personnel

5. France surrendered on June 22

6. GR took the north & left a puppet

government in the South

7. FR government led by Petain

8. capital in Vichy

9. de Gaulle set up

FR in exile

2. began bombing the airfields and then

the cities

H. March 7, 1936 Hitler

took the Rhineland

R. Sept. 1, 1939 Hitler invaded Poland; Sept. 3,

1939 GB & FR declared war on Ger.

S. Hitler used his blitzkrieg

a. lightning war

b. take enemy defenders by surprise &

quickly overwhelm them

T. Russia Makes Moves

I. Britain began a policy of

appeasement

3. two inventions helped the British-

radar & the Enigma

4. from the summer of 1940 to May 10,

1941 the British w/stood GR's assault

5. lesson Hitler's attacks could be blocked

X. Mediterranean & Eastern Front

1. Axis Powers attack North Africa b/c

they wanted control of the Suez

Canal.

J. Hitler created an alliance with

Mussolini

K. 1938 Hitler created the Anschluss w/

Austria (goes against Treaty)

L. Austria put Nazis in charge of their gov.

& took over Austria & Czech.

M. Hitler takes the Sudetenland

N. Munich Conference offered

"the peace for our time"

-Chamberlain

II. Japanese Path to War

Chapter 26: World II

A. Sept. '31 Japanese soldiers seized

Manchuria

B. Japanese faked the "Mukden incident" to take

over the resource rich area that Japan needed.

C. US did not recognize the takeover, but would not

use force.

D. War with China

I. The German Path

to War

1. Chiang Kai-shek did not want to deal w/ the

Japanese b/c China was in the middle of a civil

war against Communists.

A. Hitler indicated that Ger. would

find its lebensraum in the East

B. The Slavic people would be his slaves

2. Japanese & Chinese forces clashed in Beijing.

3. Japanese seized Nanjing (capital at the time).

Chiang Kai-shek refused to surrender & moved

his government upriver.

C. Treaty of Versailles had limited Germany's

military power.

4. Japan wanted to move into French

Indochina, US objected and

threatened sanctions

D. March 9, 1935 Hitler announced the creation of

the Luftwaffe-new German Air Force

E. One week later he began a military draft &

enlarged the army from 100,000 to

550,000

F. FR, GB, It condemned Hitler

G. Hitler became convinced that

no one was going to do

anything

G. the US response-

aid the Chinese &

cut off oil shipments

H. Japan still continued their conquests &

hoped to catch the Europeans & US by

surprise.

I. Dec. 7, 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

J. 2300 Americans killed & 1100 wounded

K. same time they attacked Pearl Harbor, the

Japanese attacked Hong Kong, Guam, & Wake

Island

L. They treated their captives cruelly

M. Bataan Death March- 16,000 people died

N. Doolittle's Raid

O. Battle of Midway turned the tide

E. New Asian Order

1. Japan hoped to create an

Asian Empire comprised of

Japan, China, Soviet Siberia, &

Manchuria.

2. When the Non-Aggression Pact

was signed Japan had to rethink

its plans.

3. Moving southward would anger

European colonial powers.

H. Battle of the Bulge

was the Germans

last stand.

1. This battle is to decide

whether we shall live or

die........

F. US cracked a secret code that the Japanese used

in sending secret messages

1. knew that the Japanese wanted European

possessions there

2. Japanese Imperialism could threaten the

US territories of the Philippines &

Guam

I. May 7, 1945 GR surrendered

J. Victory over the Pacific

1. now w/ victory in Europe the Allies

could focus on Japan

2. after losing their fleet, the Japanese

used the kamikazes (suicide pilots)

3. Americans took Iwo Jima &

Okinawa

4. America drops the

atomic bomb

Allies (GB, FR, US, Russia) vs. the Axis (GR, Aus, Italy, & Japan)

Section 4: The Allied

Victory

I. The Allied Victory

A. Churchill wanted GB & US

to attack N. Africa & southern

Europe

B. Stalin wanted a 2nd Front in France

C. Without it, he was forced to face the

Germans alone.

D. GR defeated in N. Africa in 1943.

E. Stalingrad- Germany started

w/330,000 troops; 90,000

surrendered

F. May 1945 Germany fell.

G. June 6, 1944 D-Day began

(Operation Overlord)