WORLD WAR II
Chapter 16
Think-Write-Pair-Share
• What were Hitler’s goals?
Hitler’s Lightning War
• Nonaggression Pact – Soviet Union + Germany
Blitzkrieg – “lightning war”
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Works in Poland (1939)
• The blitzkrieg was a military strategy that
______________________________________________
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Finns vs. Soviet Union
Hitler’s Lightning War
• After Germany attacks Poland, France + G. Britain
declare war
• Hitler attacks Denmark and Norway
The Fall of France
• Hitler sends troops through
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the Ardennes and reaches
the French coast
Allied forces are trapped in
northern France
Go to the beaches of
Dunkirk
G. Britain rescues 338,000
Allied soldiers
French surrender 1940
Germans control the north
Vichy France (south)
The Fall of France
• Charles de Gaulle, French general, sets up a
government-in-exile in London
• Organizes Free French military forces
Battle of Britain
• Winston Churchill = Prime Minister
Battle of Britain
• Hitler’s plan = use the Luftwaffe (air force) to bomb
factories and then cities before deploying 250,000
soldiers
• RAF (Royal Air Force) has radar and Enigma
• Hitler calls it off
Assignment
• 1. Why did Great Britain and France declare war on
Germany?
• 2. Why was the outcome of the Battle of Britain important
for the Allies?
The Mediterranean
• North Africa
• Mussolini moves forces
into British-controlled
Egypt
• Suez Canal = reach the
oil fields of the Middle
East
• Hitler sends in General
Erwin Rommel’s Afrika
Korps
• Axis powers win
• ____________ and ________________ join forces to
defeat the Allies in the Mediterranean.
The Balkans
• Hitler’s plan = build
bases to eventually
attack the Soviet Union
Hitler Invades the Soviet Union
• Surprise attack (1941)
• Soviets retreat and used
scorched-earth strategy
• 1 million people die in
Leningrad but Hitler
cannot gain control
• 500,000 Germans die
trying to take over
Moscow
• Hitler made a mistake invading the Soviet Union because
______________________________________________
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United States
• Neutrality Acts (1937)
• Lend-Lease Act (1941)
• Atlantic Charter – free trade and choice of government
• German U-boat sinks an American destroyer
• FDR orders navy to shoot German submarines
• The significance of the Atlantic Charter was
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• The ________ - Lease Act benefited the U.S. because
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• Irony = an outcome of events contrary to what was, or
might have been, expected
Tora!Tora!Tora – Justification Paragraph
• Which events/factors led to Japan attacking Pearl
Harbor and declaring war against the United Sates?
• 1. State your claim - Provide at least two factors – “One factor that led to
Japan attacking Pearl Harbor and attacking the U.S. was
____________” “Another event that led to _________________.”
 2. Use academic language to cite evidence – “As a result of ……..”
“If …….. then ……..” “This was a cause or effect of ……..”
• 3. Support evidence – At least one additional sentence per factor.
• 4. Use content vocabulary (at least 3) – Pearl Harbor, radar, alliance,
Axis, Allies, Manchuria, embargo, sabotage, emperor, etc.