Blitzkrieg
- Military Strategy
- Used by Germany
- Tanks, troops, combat engineers, and air power
- Concentrated
- Fast
- Quick
- Break enemy lines
- Keep going
- Came from Heinz Guderian
- Military pamphlet called “Achtung Panzer”
- He used it against British, French, and Russian armies
Sitzkreig
- German troops continued to pout into Poland
- France and Britain declared war on Germany
- Launched no major military land operations
- No activity in the Western front between September 1939 and May 1940
- The Germans consolidated their gains in Poland and the Soviets invaded their share of the country
- After, the Allied armies stirred themselves and pushed forward into Belgium to meet the enemy who had fallen into their trap
- Known as: “The Sitting War” and “The Phony War”
Italy Invading Ethiopia
- The Italian invasion of Ethiopia was initiated in the month of October 1935
- It was a brief colonial war that is also remembered in history as the second italo-abyssinian war.
- It was the first time that mustard gas and phosgene was used illegally
- Mussolini who was the leader of italy
- The Ambassador reported that factories for the manufacture of trucks, tanks, and artillery at and around Milan were working day and night
- The UN was trying to stop the outbreak of war, but Italy refused to not carry out their plan
- The league suggested a plan to give part of abyssinia to italy.
- Mussolini ignored the league, and invaded abyssinia
- The league banned weapon sales, and put sanction on rubber and metal
- They invaded for:
- Revenge for an earlier defeat in 1896 (The battle of Adowa)
- access to the red sea
- ethiopia was weak so they could get away with it
- The aim of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige
- national honor
Winston Churchill
- Prime Minister of Great Britain
- Famous for the saying: “We will never ever surrender”
- Allie
- Lost power by not being re-elcected
Quiz
- WW2 leaders-identify name, country w/ pictures
- Know how they lost power
- Know their biggest achievement
- Notes
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