The Axis Advances
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The Axis Advances
Chapter 14.2
The Axis Attacks
• Blitzkrieg-lightning war• Fast moving tanks and airpower• Luftwaffe-German Air Force• Bombed- airfield,factories, towns
and cities• Tanks and troops advance rapidly
• Soviets move west capturing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania• Western Powers -helpless
The Miracle at Dunkirk
• April 1940 Hitler takes Norway and Denmark pursuing Belgium and the Netherlands• British are trapped on the beach• Every British boat , ship , canoe, and
kayak comes to save the 300,000 troops
France falls
• French surrender June 22, 1940• Germans set up Vichy Government• Collaborator gov’t• Free French escape to Britain• DeGualle-Free French leaders
Operation Sea Lion
• German invasion of Britain• Bombing of Britian for 57 days• Destroying nonmilitary targets• British stand fast• Battle of Britain RAF
Africa and the Balkans
• Axis control North Africa• Rommel –Desert Fox• Eastern Europe- Italy attacks Greece
and Yugoslavia• Bulgaria and Hungary join Axis
Germany Invades the Soviet Union
• Nonaggression pact broken• Soviets lose 2.5 million troops• Soviets retreat burning everything
for Germans to take• Soviet winter destroys German
troops
Siege on Stalingard
• 1 million civilians die• Stalingrad did not fall• British and Soviets unite against
Germans
Life Under Nazi and Japanese Occupation
• Hitler’s “New Order” • Master Race• Theft of art, factories, property, and
resources• Jews-sent to Concentration Camps
• The Nazis commit genocide against• Jews• Enemies of the state • Homosexuals• Gypsies• Disabled
Final Solution
• Kill all Jews• Holocaust -6 million dead• Concentration camps –Treblinka
Japans Brutal Conquest
• Escape European colonial rule• Invade and conquer China,
Philippines, Malaysia, Indochina• Take, kill, and rape
Japan Attack the US
• US neutral on war• FDR wants to help allies• Lend Lease Act- loan of military
equipment to Allies• US bans oil, steel, and raw materials
to Japan
Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Dec 7, 1941 Japan attacks at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii• FDR-”A day that will live in infamy”• US declares war on Japan• WWII begins