Strategic Moves · Hitler occupied demilitarized Rhineland, violating Treaty of Versailles · Hitler takes over Sudetenland · Hitler invades Poland with use of Blitzkreig · Chamberlain advocated appeasement · Hitler and Stalin’s Non-Agression Pact · Use of Maginot Line by France · Stalin’s policy of scorched earth to destroy potential supplies for Germany army · Civilian bombing-Luftwaffe destroyed British cities Battles · Dunkirk- allowed many British and French soldiers to escape to England · Battle of Britain- Luftwaffe offensive attack on British Royal Air Force, Hitler began bombing but defeated by British · Operation Barbossa- Nazi Germany and Axis powers invasion of Soviet Union · Pearl Harbor- Japanese occupied Indochina, Americans cut off sales of scrap iron and oil to Japan, Japan attacked American naval fleet at Pearl Harbor · Battle of El Alamein- British forces stopped Rommel’s German forces from advancing into Northern Africa · Battle of Stalingrad- turning point in war, Hitler attempted to take Stalingrad but troops were stopped and forced to surrender Outcomes/Effects of War · Final Solution-attempted annihilation of Jews · Death toll of 50 million · Cold War-due to ideological differences between U.S. and Soviets
World War II
Strategic Moves
· Hitler occupied demilitarized Rhineland, violating Treaty of Versailles
· Hitler takes over Sudetenland
· Hitler invades Poland with use of Blitzkreig
· Chamberlain advocated appeasement
· Hitler and Stalin’s Non-Agression Pact
· Use of Maginot Line by France
· Stalin’s policy of scorched earth to destroy potential supplies for Germany army
· Civilian bombing-Luftwaffe destroyed British cities
Battles
· Dunkirk- allowed many British and French soldiers to escape to England
· Battle of Britain- Luftwaffe offensive attack on British Royal Air Force, Hitler began bombing but defeated by British
· Operation Barbossa- Nazi Germany and Axis powers invasion of Soviet Union
· Pearl Harbor- Japanese occupied Indochina, Americans cut off sales of scrap iron and oil to Japan, Japan attacked American naval fleet at Pearl Harbor
· Battle of El Alamein- British forces stopped Rommel’s German forces from advancing into Northern Africa
· Battle of Stalingrad- turning point in war, Hitler attempted to take Stalingrad but troops were stopped and forced to surrender
Outcomes/Effects of War
· Final Solution-attempted annihilation of Jews
· Death toll of 50 million
· Cold War-due to ideological differences between U.S. and Soviets