Chapter 16 Section 2

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Chapter 16 Section 2

• War in Europe

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Germany on the Move

• March 12, 1938 German troops marched into Austria
  unopposed
• Anschluss combining of Germany and Austria

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• Czechoslovakia
• Sudetenland full of German-speaking people
• Hitler wanted
• Munich Pact Daladier and Chamberlain
• Policy of Appeasement

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Result of Appeasement
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Winston Churchill

• Felt appeasement was a shameful policy to pacify
  and aggressor
• Britain and France had to choose between war and
  dishonor. They chose dishonor. They will have
  war.

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Russo-German Nonaggression Pact

• August 23, 1939
• Germany and Russia
• Hitler wanted to avoid a 2-front war
• Agreed not to fight each other
• Signed a 2nd secret pact agreeing to divide
  Poland between them

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Poland

• September 1, 1939
• Germany attacked Poland
• Blitzkrieg lightening war take enemy by
  surprise and with overwhelming force
• In 3 weeks Poland fell
• Britain and France had promised military aide to
  Poland but could not respond quickly enough to
  help

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Poland

• September 1, 1939 official beginning of World
  War II.

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• Sitzkrieg phony war no fighting
• Hitler building strength
• France and Britain maintaining the Maginot Line
  border with Germany

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Hitler on the move

• April 9, 1940 Hitler launched a surprise attack
  on Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium and
  Luxembourg.
• By end of May, 1940 all were under the control
  of Germany.

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France

• Hitler attacked from the North
• Maginot Line did little good
• June, 1940 Hitler controlled France
• France surrendered to protect Paris
• France falls once again!
• France split
• North German occupied
• South Nazi controlled government
• Marshal Petain - Vichy Government

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France - 1940
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Charles DeGaulle

• French General
• Fled to England
• Set up a government in exile
• France has lost a battle,
• but France has not lost the war

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Battle of Britain

• Operation Sea Lion Hitlers plan to invade
  England
• Wanted to bomb England into submission
• Plan failed
• Royal Air Force (RAF) had radar and was able to
  deliver deadly strikes on Germany.
• Churchill praised RAF Never in the field of
  human conflict was so much owed by so many to so
  few