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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