The Global Conflict

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The Global Conflict

• Section 2 The Axis Advances
• Ms. Garratt

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Blitzkrieg Against Poland

• Massive bombing followed by tanks and infantry.
• Poland gave up within 3 weeks.
• Nazis inflicted great damage

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British Assistance Dunkirk

• Britain provided military assistance.
• Germans pushed the British back to Dunkirk on the
  English Channel.
• A fleet of military and private vessels saved the
  Brit army by evacuating 338,000 troops between
  May 28-June 4, 1940.
• The French held out for a few weeks more
• Then Mussolini attacked from the South.
• France surrendered in June

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Fall of France 1940

• Germans bypassed the Maginot line and conquered
  France by June 1940
• Italians attacked in the South.
• Vichy government established in the South. They
  collaborated with the Nazis

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Battle of Britain the London Blitz

• Operation Sea Lion attempt to break British
  moral air power with massive bombings
• Failed to break British morale quite the
  contrary
• Began bombing civilian targets straight for 57
  nights
• Terror bombing did not work
• Hitler abandons Britain and focuses on Russia
• 15,000 civilians killed

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Africa

• Mussolini
• Rommel Desert Fox
• Race for the Suez Canal
• El Alamein

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Operation Barbarossa - USSR

• Hitlers attack on USSR to gain lebensraum
  vast raw materials
• USSR weak from military purges
• Russians used scorched earth tactics to deny the
  Germans fruits of victory
• Winter devastated Germans who didnt even have
  winter uniforms
• Battle of Leningrad Stalingrad will be fierce
• Stalingrad was major turning point when Soviets
  now took the offensive

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US Arsenal of Democracy

• Lend Lease

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Lend Lease Aid to Allies
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The Japanese Threat

• Japanese aggression continued in China, Korea.
• Japan announced its intension to create the
  Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere which
  would be a Japanese empire.
• Japan joins an alliance with Germ Italy known
  as the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

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Pearl Harbor 1941
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Nazi Occupation
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Total War
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Turning Points

• El Alamein
• Invasion of Italy
• Stalingrad
• Normandy, D-Day
• Battle of Midway

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D-Day June 6, 1944

• Invasion of Normandy

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D Day June 6, 1944
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War in the Pacific

• Japan was on offensive until Battle of Midway
  Coral Sea
• From then it was defensive
• Strategy of US was island-hopping

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The Bomb the Defeat of Japan

• Manhattan Project
• Truman said he never wavered.
• It was a matter of saving ½ to 1 million American
  lives
• Enola Gay delivered the bomb to Hiroshima
• Another example of a civilian target
• Second bomb dropped on Nagasaki

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