Review

What is Appeasement?
What is Aggression?
How did Hitler/the dictators
violate the Treaty of
Versailles?
How did
Appeasement/Aggression
lead to WWII?

EQ: What were the

major events in the
early years of the
war and how did
they impact the
war?

Allies vs Axis Powers

Allied Powers: Britain - Churchill,
U.S. - Roosevelt, Soviet Union Stalin
(The Big Three)
Axis Powers: Germany Hitler, Italy
Mussolini, Japan - Tojo

Soviet-Nazi Nonaggression
Germany andPact
the Soviet Union
sign nonaggression pact in
August 1939
10 Year Agreement not to attack
one another
Secret agreement to divide up
Poland

The Beginning of WWII:

Invasion of Poland

Germany invades Poland Sept

1, 1939
Uses blitzkrieg (lightening war)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpYpbiIZDGw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyryiMk9w4M

Great Britain and France

declare war on Germany

Soviet Invasions
September 17, 1939
Soviets invade other half of
Poland
Also, invades Estonia,
Latvia, Finland, Lithuania

German Blitzkrieg Continues

Britain and France mobilize
armies and wait in France.
While they wait, Hitler
conquers Denmark, Norway,
Belgium, and Holland in May
1940.

Invasion of France
Blitzkrieg into France June
1940
France surrenders in one month
to Germany
British retreat back to Britain

Battle of Britain
July Oct 1940
Britain stands alone to face
Hitler
Benefits Britain is an island
nation and has radar
Hitlers Plan is to destroy
British air force so Germany can
invade across the English
Channel

 Luftwaffe vs RAF http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBO61qg-kc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euRlmTHpSCI

Importance of the Battle of

Britain

Proved that Hitler and Germany

were not invincible
Hitler loses large number of
pilots and planes
Hitler now looks to the east
the Soviet Union
Britain will serve as a base for
Allied troops

Importance of the Battle of

Britain
Proved that Hitler and
Germany were not
invincible
Hitler now looks to the
east plans to invade the
Soviet Union
Britain will serve as a base

Essential Question

How and why did U.S.

involvement in WWII
change?

America Remains Neutral at First

Why?
United States is still in the
Depression
Saw WWI as a mistake so want to
stay out of Europe

What does the U.S. do to stay

out?
Pass the Neutrality Acts banned
U.S. loans and sale of weapons to
countries at war

America Moves Closer to

1.Places an embargo
War on Japan after

they invade China (not sell them

resources/oil)
2. U.S. Congress passes the LendLease Act where the Allies could buy
arms from the U.S. but must use own
ships
3. U.S. Navy protects allied cargo
ships against German U-boats
4. Japanese Expansion
Expanding into the Pacific but the U.S. is
there too

Surprise Attack at Pearl

Harbor
Japanese attack U.S.
naval base/fleet at Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii on
December 7, 1941

Dec 7, 1941

Aftermath
2,500 killed, several battleships
sunk
U.S. declares war on Japan and
enters WWII

Doolittle Raid
U.S. launches bombers from
carriers and bombs Tokyo
Shows Japan that the U.S. will not
back down
Morale boost for Americans

"I fear all we have done is

to awaken a sleeping
giant and fill him with a
terrible resolve.
~Yamamoto

U.S. Mobilizes
People are needed in the army
and factories ends Depression
FDR wants the U.S. to become an
Arsenal for Democracy
By 1944, US production was double
what all the Axis Powers produced
combined