- 39 - Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact
- Hitler lied about not taking more land, within 6 months he took over the rest of Czechoslovakia.
- One week before the invasion of Poland the signed the non-aggressive Pact.
- Agreed to not fight each other if war broke out.
- Secretly agreed to invade Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and split them up.
- 39 - German invasion of Poland.
- After signing the non-aggression pact with the Soviets Germany invaded Poland.
- 39-40 - Blitz and Sitz40 - Germany invades - Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg
- Blitzkrieg "Lightening Warfare"
- Fast strikes, not for-seen.
- Tanks, airplanes, just fast!
- How they took over Poland.
- Sitzkrieg "Phony War"
- People just sat and waited out the winter.
- Axis vs. Allied
- Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan.
- Allied: US, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, China, Australia, Canada.
- German invasion of-Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg
- Invasion of Denmark and Norway 1940
- 40 - Germany invades France
- Invaded France in 1940
- Germany would focus on blitzkrieg tactics while France focused on defensive tactics.
- Surrendered in under a month.
- 30-40 - Maginot Line
- France built to keep Germany out of France.
- Giant concrete wall on the border of France and Germany.
- Machine gun turrets, spikes to keep tanks out, but Germany went around it.
- Miracle of Dunkirk
- A small victory.
- Vichy Government
- Led by Marshal Petain.
- Hitler let them remain in control of southern France.
- Did whatever Hitler said.
- Captured French Jews to be sent to concentration camps.
- Free French Underground
- The government that fled to Great Britain.
- Led by Charles de Gaulle.
- This is the government that we considered to be the French Government, our allies.
- 40 - Battle of Britain
- Aerial attack.
- What pushed back the invasion of Great Britain by Germany.
- Never was so much owed, by so many, to so few. -Winston Churchill.
- Codes
- Ultra: Code name given to the intercepting and deciphering of German code by Great Britain.
- Magic:Code name given to the intercepting and deciphering of Japan code by United States.
- 41 - Japan invades French Indochina
- We stopped trading with Japan so they needed resources.
- 3 options for Japan.
- Attack the US.
- Go back to Japan, get out of Indochina.
- Compromise. (FDR was not big on compromise. He wanted to go into war.)
- 41- German invasion of USSR
- Operation Barbarossa.
- Germany and the USSR hated each other but they had signed a non-aggression pact.
- Hitler wanted to invade the USSR because he hated Russians, they weren't Aryans, he hated communists, and the biggest reason of all lebensraum (living space.)
- Hitler was doing a breeding of Aryans and they were running out of space and needed more room so Hitler wanted the USSR space.
My topics:
Selective Training and Service Act (1940.)
- Was the first peace draft in US history.
- Required men between the ages of 21-35 to register at the local draft centers.
- When WW2 began all men 18-45 were required to go off to war while 18-65 were required to sign up for the draft.
Pearl Harbor
- December 7, 1941 Japan attacked the US at Pearl Harbor early morning.
- Unknown facts of the USS Arizona.
- 23 sets of brothers died aboard the USS Arizona.
- The day before Japan bombed Pearl harbor the USS Arizona was filled with approximately 1.5 million gallons of gas which when bombed caused the majority of the explosion and at least 9 quarts of oil everyday still come out of the ship into the harbor.
- Some of the former crew members that were cremated decided to have their urns put down at the boat.
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