World War II War in Europe Vocab List

World War II War in Europe

Vocab List 27 P 218 CH 12 -Periphery -Convoy System -Anschluss (P 268) -Blitzkrieg (P 269) -Luftwaffe (P 270) -Hedgerow -D-day (P 306)

What Hitler was like:

I. Background • • o A) Hitlers Rise to Power o Leader of Nazi Party - anti-semitic (=hate Jews) and hated To. V terms against Germany o Became Fuhrer (Leader) by using his Storm. Troopers to scare Germans into voting for him (Killed all other politicians (Night of Long Knives), silenced all other political parties) 2) Once in Power - he defied the To. V o Expanded Luftwaffe (airforce) and Army o Called for unification of German Speaking People (annexing Austria & Czechoslovakia) o Lebensraum - idea that German people deserve more land 3) Appeasement -France & GB did nothing in response to above hoping to avoid a war

II. Hitler Invades! • • A) Poland - 1939 o Made pact with Russia to divide Poland o Poland attacked on both sides § 60, 000 killed by Germans§ 20, 000 killed by Russians B) THEN Germans invade Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Greece C) France - 1941 o Made the French sign an armistice agreement in the same train-car that Germans signed the To. V D) BUT NOT – Great Britain o Battle of Britain - Luftwaffe vs. British Royal Airforce. Both London & Berlin bombed. o Never gave up! Britain never invaded.

Poland invaded

Hitler in Paris

Battle of Britain

Hitler Invades Poland

III. Hitler vs. Stalin • • • Hitler Turns East o Believed Russian people to be inferior o Winter War - between Finland & Russia, Finland put up a great fight humiliating Russia (although Russia won). o Google: “Simo Hayha” Hitler sent 4 Million soldiers into Russia o Battle at Stalingrad - over 2 million people died in one battle § Bloodiest Battle in History o Germany could not defeat Russia because of the horrible cold ***MOST OF WW 2 IS GERMANY VS RUSSIA***

MORTAL KOMBATTT

Hitler goes East vid

Eastern Front vid (If time)

IV. Here comes ‘Merica • • • A) Northern Africa – 1943 - USA helps England B) Then Italy o 300, 000 Allied Soldiers Killed o Captured Rome by 1944, ending Mussolini reign C) Tehran Conference 1943 - - Stalin (Russia), Churchill (England) and FDR (USA) meet to plan joint attack on Germany

V. Germany Falls! • • • A) D-Day o Over 100, 000 Soldiers allies make it to Normandy beach o Crucial to help soviets on eastern Front B) Battle of the Bulge - Last German offensive trying to cut off allied troops from suppliers in Belgium. Germans lose 100, 000 soldiers. C) 1945 - Russia invades Berlin o Hitler commits suicide in a bunker 4/30/1945

D Day famous photo

D-Day!!!

VI. Victory for the Allies! • • V-E day! (Victory in Europe) May 8, 1945 Germans Surrender unconditionally V-J Day is three months later (Victory against Japan) official ending of WWII

VII. Nuremberg Trials • • 150 Nazi leaders prosecuted o 31 Sentenced to death o 119 imprisoned Punished those responsible for WWII and the Holocaust/Genocides

Germans Defeated vid (if time