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Section 2 The Axis Advances
Ryan Jones, Vanguard Minter, Casey Piparo, Azende’ Smith, Jason Tucker
The Axis Attacks• Germany used the tactic of Blitzkrieg• Germany and Russia divide Eastern Europe– Nazi-Soviet Pact– Baltic States and Finland taken by Soviets
Blitzkrieg• Lightning war• Luftwaffe – German Air Force– Bombed buildings, airfields, and
factories• Tanks and ground troops next
Dunkirk• British and French guard Maginot
Line• Blitzkrieg forces them back to Dunkirk
• 300,000 British troops are ferried to Britain
• Evacuation known as Operation Dynamo
France Surrenders• Germany moves south
through France• Italy moves north• June 22, 1940 – France
surrenders• Set up “puppet state” at Vichy
Me 110s over Paris
Operation Sea Lion• Invasion of Britain by Germany– Target: southern military locations– Result: RAF fights back Luftwaffe
• Battle of Britain– Luftwaffe attacks London– Bomb London for 57 nights– RAF wins, British morale grows
Me 323 and Spitfire
North Africa
• Germany attacks North Africa• Led by General Erwin Rommel• Push British back to Cairo
Invasion of USSR
• Hitler pushes through Moscow and Leningrad– Harsh winter – lose 3,000 troops
• Stalin and British agree to fight Germany
• Hitler’s plan to invade the Soviet Union
• “Operation Barbarossa, 1941.”• http://www.english-online.at/history/world-w
ar-2/operation-barbarossa-and-the-battle-of-stalingrad.htm
• Hitler saluting(Seig heil) to his troops
Hitler’s New Order
• Master Race (Aryan)• Puppet Governments• Concentration Camps• Targeted Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals,
the disabled.• Forced Jew to live in Ghettos• The Final Solution
The Holocaust
• Jews and others put into death camps• Gassed in shower rooms• Young, Elderly, and sick immediately killed• Jews rebel to the Nazis in Warsaw• Vichy sends thousands of Jews to death
Japanese Conquest
• Took control of Asian and the Pacific• Goal is to escape Western Rule• Killed and tortured people they took over• Seized crops, destroyed cities, made citizens
slaves
American Involvement Grows
• March 1941 congress passed the Lend-Lease Act
• Allowed us to sell/lend war materials• Roosevelt met secretly with Churchill
on warship • Set goals for the war• “the final destruction of the Nazi
tyranny”
Japan and US Faceoff
• 1940 Japan advanced into French Indochina
• And Dutch East Indies• US banned sale of materials to Japan• Japanese leaders saw as threat to
economy• Held talks to ease tension• Tojo made ease to tension hard
Attack on Pearl Harbor
• December 7, 1941• General Tojo Ordered Surprise attack on Us• Japanese planes bombed the American
fleet• Claimed about 2,400 Lives • Destroyed battle ships and aircrafts • Roosevelt named it • “a date which will live in infamy”
Pearl Harbor continued
• On December 8 Us declared war on Japan
• On December 11 Germany + Italy declared war
Japan Victories
• Months after Pearl Harbor Japan captured Philippines
• Overran Hong Kong, Burma, and Malaya
• By 1942 empire from Southeast Asia to west Pacific ocean
Pearl Harbor Damage
• 19 American ships sunk or damaged• 188 American aircraft destroyed• 2,348 Americans killed• 1,109 Americans injured
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