The Axis Advances

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The Axis Advances

• Chapter 14.2

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The Axis Attacks

• Nazi Germany invaded Poland from one side with
  the blitzkrieg (lightning war), while the Soviets
  came from the other.
• France and Britain had no time to help.

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The Axis Attacks

• Then Germany attacked France from the north, and
  Italy invaded from the south.
• They set up a puppet state with the capital of
  Vichy

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The Axis Attacks

• Some French officers set up a government-in-exile
  in Britain under Charles De Gaulle
• When France fell, only Britain stood against the
  Axis powers.

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The Axis Attacks

• A Nazi bombing campaign against London and other
  cities only strengthened British resolve.
• Meanwhile, Axis armies also pushed into North
  Africa and the Balkans.

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Germany Invades Soviet Union

• Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 in
  the hopes of gaining its natural resources and
  putting down communism.
• Hitlers advance was stalled by the brutal
  Russian winter, but Russians in Leningrad
  suffered a two-and-a-half-year siege that caused
  mass starvation.

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Life Under Japanese and Nazi Occupation

• The people who lived in lands occupied by the
  Nazis and the Japanese were often brutally
  treated.
• Hitlers forces sent Polish and Soviet Slavs to
  work as slave laborers, and the Jewish people got
  the same and worse in Nazi death camps.

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Life Under Japanese and Nazi Occupation

• The Japanese killed and tortured Asians whom they
  claimed to help free from Western colonial rule.

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Japan Attacks the U.S.

• When the U.S. banned the sale of war materials to
  Japan after its invasion of French Indochina,
  Japan and the U.S. participated in unsuccessful
  talks.
• Japanese General Tojo ordered an attack on the
  American fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

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Japan Attacks the U.S.

• December 7, 1941
• Happened just before 8 a.m. lasted just two
  hours
• Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the
  American naval base at Pearl Harbor near
  Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Japan Attacks the U.S.

• The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20
  American naval vessels, including eight enormous
  battleships, and almost 200 airplanes.
• More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors
  died in the attack, and another 1,000 were
  wounded.

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Japan Attacks the U.S.

• The day after the assault, President Franklin D.
  Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan
• Three days later, Germany and Italy (Japanese
  allies) declared war on the United States, and
  again Congress reciprocated.
• After 2 years, America had finally joined World
  War II.