Onset of World War II
Agenda
1. Bell Ringer: Quick Review of Interwar Period
(5)
2. Lecture: Beginning of World War II (20)
3. Lend-Lease Act Quote (10)
4. Wartime Propaganda Analysis (15)
5. Changing the view of kids… Propaganda
within cartoons. (15)
6. Quick Review of WWII (5)
7. Pass back tests, corrections are due next
Friday. (5)
Quick Review Interwar Period
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Who is the leader of Italy during this time period?
What type of government exists in Italy and Germany?
What are Nuremburg Laws?
How does Hitler come to power?
What effect does the Great Depression have on
Germany?
How is the Soviet Union affected by the Great
Depression?
What is the Munich Conference?
Describe the Mandate System.
What is Stalin’s Great Purge?
What is the purpose of the Five Year Plan?
Hitler and Blitzkrieg
• Hitler invades Poland
to get back territory
lost in World War I.
• Stalin signs nonaggression pact in
August, 1939.
– Hitler promised Stalin
territory, including half
of Poland.
• Blitzkrieg = lightning
war.
A New War
• Germany invades Poland,
using fast moving planes
followed by a large
infantry.
• Soviets move into
Eastern Poland, has
resistance from Finland.
• Finnish Winter keeps
Soviets at bay, but they
finally win in 1940.
The Phony War
• Seven months after the
fall of Poland, very little
fighting.
• German soldiers called it
the “sitzkrieg.”
• France and Britain took
the time to mobilize
forces.
• It ends when Hitler
launches an attack on
Denmark and Norway.
The Fall of France
• June, 1940, Mussolini
declares war on Britain
and France.
• Paris falls on June 14th,
and France surrenders.
• Northern France is
controlled by Nazis, and
Southern France by a
“Puppet Government”
• Charles de Gaulle flees to
London, creates a
resistance force to fight
the Nazis.
Battle of Britain
• Winston Churchill is
Prime Minister of Great
Britain.
• Hitler launches Operation
Sea Lion
– Knock out RAF, and land
Nazi troops on the shores
of Britain.
– Constant airraids over
Britain lasted for months.
• Radar and Enigma
Machine help Britain
survive.
The Eastern Front
• Italy tried to attack
British controlled
Egypt.
• Britain fights back,
taking nearly 130
Italian prisoners.
• General Erwin
Rommel of Germany
helps Italian forces,
and they fight through
1942.
Hitler invades the Soviet Union
• Hitler has Balkans’
allegiance in 1941.
• He invades Soviet Union
in 1941. Blitzkrieg tactics
work well until the
Russians burn everything
as they retreat.
• In an attempt to gain
Moscow, they are forced
into Russian Winter.
The United States
• Lend-Lease Act
allowed Roosevelt to
help any country vital
to the United States.
• Kept America neutral,
but mobilization to a
war economy brings
the United States out
of the Great
Depression.
Review
1. Which event marks the beginning of World War
II?
2. What is Blitzkrieg?
3. How does Hitler avoid a two-front war?
4. What happens after the fall of France?
5. What is the “phony war”? When did it occur?
6. How does Germany plan on attacking Britain?
7. What new technologies help Britain survive the
attack?
8. What is the Lend-Lease Act?