The Axis Advances

Chapter 14.2

The Axis Attacks

• Blitzkrieg-lightning war• Fast moving tanks and airpower• Luftwaffe-German Air Force• Bombed- airfield,factories, towns

and cities• Tanks and troops advance rapidly

• Soviets move west capturing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania• Western Powers -helpless

The Miracle at Dunkirk

• April 1940 Hitler takes Norway and Denmark pursuing Belgium and the Netherlands• British are trapped on the beach• Every British boat , ship , canoe, and

kayak comes to save the 300,000 troops

France falls

• French surrender June 22, 1940• Germans set up Vichy Government• Collaborator gov’t• Free French escape to Britain• DeGualle-Free French leaders

Operation Sea Lion

• German invasion of Britain• Bombing of Britian for 57 days• Destroying nonmilitary targets• British stand fast• Battle of Britain RAF

Africa and the Balkans

• Axis control North Africa• Rommel –Desert Fox• Eastern Europe- Italy attacks Greece

and Yugoslavia• Bulgaria and Hungary join Axis

Germany Invades the Soviet Union

• Nonaggression pact broken• Soviets lose 2.5 million troops• Soviets retreat burning everything

for Germans to take• Soviet winter destroys German

troops

Siege on Stalingard

• 1 million civilians die• Stalingrad did not fall• British and Soviets unite against

Germans

Life Under Nazi and Japanese Occupation

• Hitler’s “New Order” • Master Race• Theft of art, factories, property, and

resources• Jews-sent to Concentration Camps

• The Nazis commit genocide against• Jews• Enemies of the state • Homosexuals• Gypsies• Disabled

Final Solution

• Kill all Jews• Holocaust -6 million dead• Concentration camps –Treblinka

Japans Brutal Conquest

• Escape European colonial rule• Invade and conquer China,

Philippines, Malaysia, Indochina• Take, kill, and rape

Japan Attack the US

• US neutral on war• FDR wants to help allies• Lend Lease Act- loan of military

equipment to Allies• US bans oil, steel, and raw materials

to Japan

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Dec 7, 1941 Japan attacks at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii• FDR-”A day that will live in infamy”• US declares war on Japan• WWII begins