•  May 2016

• RAW

Hitler wrote a book about his plans!!

• Unit 7-WWII • AIM

• How did WWII in Europe begin?

I. The Impact of the New Deal• Changes the way Americans look at the government.

• Government becomes somewhat responsible for the welfare of ordinary citizens

• FDR destroys Laissez-Faire!

II. Appeasement• Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict!

• When Hitler begins to move in Europe, the major powers (England, France) will appease him rather than fight. Why?

• They lack the strength • They feel they can “talk” him down

• 1936: Hitler retakes the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.

• 1938: Hitler takes Austria. • 1938: Hitler takes part of Czechoslovakia-Sudetenland

• Nobody does anything!

III. The Munich Pact• In 1938 at a conference in Munich, Germany, England agrees to allow Hitler to have part of Czechoslovakia if he promises to take no more.

• “Peace In our Time!” -Chamberlain

• 1939: Hitler invades Poland & takes the rest!

IV. World War II begins • Japan, Germany, & Italy form

the ROME-BERLIN-TOKYO Axis

• agreed not to stop each others aggression into other nations/territories

• Appeasement had failed

• On September 1st 1939 Hitler’s German armies invaded Poland.

• Two days later England and France declared war on Germany.

• WWII had begun!

V. Nazi Offensives (Blitzkrieg)

• by 1940, Nazi Germany overran Poland, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Belgium

• Allies (French & British) cannot compete with Nazi Blitz

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VI.The War in Europe• Nazi Germany is winning a “new” kind of war from Great Britain in the West to Russia in the East

• Great Britain is constantly being bombed

• The Allies needed to land on mainland Europe

•  "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

• “Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.”

•  “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty,and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and its Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.' “