The Axis Advances
Chapter 14.2
The Axis Attacks
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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
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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
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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
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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