Agenda To Get Handout from the back shelf
Agenda • To Get: – Handout from the back shelf • To Do: – Review appeasement – Lecture Notes: Blitzkrieg and new warfare tactics – Video Thinking Questions – Exit Slip Why It Matters Now: Hitler’s actions set off WWII. The results of the war still affect the politics and economies of today’s world
Friday… • Intermural basketball game starts at 2: 10. • All your classes will be 15 minutes shorter. • We will have a lecture with lots of notes; as usual. Just write faster…
Opener Define appeasement What was Churchill’s view of appeasing Germany leading up to WWII?
Opener Define appeasement giving in to demands to avoid conflict What was Churchill’s view of appeasing Germany leading up to WWII? Bad idea, would lead to Germany expanding its borders by force.
Major Players in WWII Allies: England- Winston Churchill US- Franklin D. Roosevelt USSR- Joseph Stalin Axis: Germany- Adolf Hitler Italy- Benito Mussolini Japan- Hideki Tojo
Germany Sparks a New War in Europe • After taking Austria and Czechoslovakia, Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939 – Use blitzkrieg warfare to defeat Poland • Planes bomb Polish cities, then tanks move in followed by 1. 5 million troops A British View of blitzkrieg
Europe Joins the War • September 3, 1939 Britain and France declare war on Germany • Soviets invade Poland, Baltic states and Finland while Hitler starts through Europe Neville Chamberlain broadcast the news to the nation
Battle for France • Germans go around Maginot Line (system of fortifications along France/German Border) – Push French and allies to the sea • Italy now joined Axis Powers – Declare war on France and Britain – Italian troops force France to surrender on June 22, 1940
Maginot Line Today
Battle for Britain • Germany constantly bombs England – 3 things save England 1. Morale (positivity) 2. Enigma Machine 3. Radar – Forced Hitler to call off bombings • Operation Sea Lion Never used
Operation Sea Lion
Enigma Machine and Encryption The Imitation Game Trailer
Enigma Thinking Questions 1. What was a complication of breaking the enigma code? 2. Why was creating a computer the only way to crack Enigma? 3. Ultimately, what allowed cryptographers to crack the “code? ”
Radar Play until 10: 22
Radar Thinking Questions 1. How did the use of radar significantly change warfare compared to World War One? 2. How did the use of radar prevent a German invasion of Britain (Operation Sea Lion) 3. What is a practical application for civilian life of this wartime technology?
Eastern Front and the Mediterranean • Led by Gen. Erwin Rommel (Desert Fox), the Africa Korps achieve victory in N. Africa • Hitler takes Balkans as he secretly prepares to invade Soviet Union – Operation Barbarossa begins June 22, 1941 • Upset by German attack, Russians able to stop Hitler’s forces near Moscow 1. What was Rommel’s relationship to Hitler? 2. Where did he gain his military experience? • Desert Fox Video
U. S. Aids its Allies • US remains neutral but helps Britain with Lend. Lease Act (1941) – Lend and lease weapons and supplies to countries vital to the US 1. How did the Lend-Lease Act affect the American economy? 2. What was the ultimate aim of the Lend-Lease Act? • FDR and Winston Churchill issue Atlantic Charter – Declare free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own govts
Germany Tests the US • German submarines start to attack US ships and destroyers bringing America close to war • Hitler chooses not to bring the US in to the war…yet
Exit Slip 1. Name three things that allowed Britain to fend off the Germans and ultimately prevent an invasion of the island. 2. Explain the significance of one of these concepts or inventions.
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