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World War IIBlitzkrieg
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Appeasement
• giving in to aggressive demands to maintain peace
• Timeline–March 1936 – remilitarized the Rhineland–March 1938 – Anschluss (annexation of
Austria)– September 1938 – Munich Conference/Sudeten
Crisis (annexation of the Sudetenland)–March 1939 – Germany invades
Czechoslovakia
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Agreements
• 1936 – Anti-Comintern Pact– Germany & Japan– 1937 – Italy
• 1938 – Munich Conference• 1939 – German-Italian Alliance• August 1939 – Non-Aggression Pact– Germany & Soviet Union
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Blitzkrieg• “blitz” = lightning• “krieg” = war• September 1, 1939 – Invasion of
Poland– official start of WWII
• September 3 – Britain & France declare war on Germany
• September 17 – Russia invades Poland
• October 6 – Poland surrenders
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Blitzkrieg
• April 1940–Denmark surrenders–Norway surrenders–Netherlands surrenders
• May 1940–Belgium surrenders
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Invasion of France
• May 1940 – invasion begins• Evacuation @ Dunkirk– 300,000+ Allied troops escape across the
English Channel– Hitler’s 1st major blunder of WWII
• June 1940 – German army enters Paris– Hitler – “This is the happiest day of my
life.”– June 22 – France surrenders
• Germany humiliates France
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Battle of Britain• July 1940 – October 1940• Luftwaffe vs. RAF• German goal–soften up British defenses in
preparation for a land invasion
• Outcome–German defeat, British victory–Germany’s first defeat in WWII
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Operation Barbarossa• Germany invades Russia• June 22, 1941• Hitler breaks the Non-Aggression Pact• Soviets are poorly trained, ill-equipped,
and caught off guard• German troops unprepared for weather• easily the biggest blunder in Hitler’s
military and political career