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• Germany & USSR promised not to fight each other.

• [secretly] divided up Poland.

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WORLD WAR II !!

BLITZKREIG

BLITZKREIG

BLITZKREIG

BLITZKREIG

•Cartoonist shows Hitler’s intent.

•Hitler’s “blitzkrieg” military tactics made his armies difficult to stop.

While planes of the Royal Air Force drove off German

bombers, the fleet of British vessels (composed of

destroyers, motor launches, private yachts, old ferries,

steamers, even fishing boats, about 850 vessels in all) moved to Dunkirk and proceeded to

evacuate about 338,000troops from May 26 to June 4,

1940.

Now Britain Is All Alone!

• Largest air battle ever fought in the history of warfare.

• July to November 1940 and was won by the Royal Air Force (RAF or British Air Force).

• First major German set-back in WWII and forced Hitler to change his strategy

• British people fought for their country and a possible Nazi invasion (Operation Sea Lion).

"This was their finest hour."

Britain

WINSTON CHURCHILL

JUNE 18, 1940

FROM HIS "FINEST

HOUR" SPEECH

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Program in which the United States supplied Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945 in return for, in the case of Britain, military bases.

In one of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 30 fireside chats, he referred to Detroit, Michigan as "the great arsenal of democracy" because much of the Detroit-area automotive industry began to produce armaments. It was "a call to arm and support" the Allies.

A published agreement between the United Kingdom and the U.S. It was intended as the blueprint for the world after World War II, and turned out to be the foundation for many of the current international treaties/organizations.