Hitler

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Hitlers Lightning War

• WWII Begins

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Hitler Grabs New Territories

• The Rhineland
• Austria
• Czechoslovakia
• Then he turned to Poland to reclaim the Polish
  Corridor

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Rhineland Corridor
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Nonaggression Pact

• 10 year pact between Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
  and Adolf Hitler (Germany).
• Hitler promised Stalin territory
• Secretly agreed to divide Poland between them
• USSR could take over Finland and the Baltic
  countries of Lithuania, Lativia, and Estonia

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Hitler courting Stalin
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Germanys Lightning Attack

• Hitler attacked Poland at dawn on September 1,
  1939
• Known as Blitzkrieg
• First test of Germanys newest military strategy
• Use fast-moving planes and tanks followed by
  massive infantry forces

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Blitzkrieg
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Allies are too late

• September 3rd, 1939, Great Britain and France
  declare war on Germany
• However, Poland fell to Germany quite sometime
  before the allies could make a military response.

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Poland

• Germany annexed the West
• The USSR sent troops to occupy Eastern Poland on
  September 17th, 1939

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Poland Divided Between Germany and Russia
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Soviets make their move

• Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia fell without
  struggle
• Finland resisted
• November Stalin sent 1 million troops into
  Finland
• Expecting a quick victory they didnt prepare for
  a winter battle
• s again benefit the soviets
• March 1940 Finns surrender

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The Phony War

• Sitzkrieg sitting war
• French and British armies mobilized around the
  Maginot Line (FG border)
• Allies waited on Germans to attack and nothing
  happened
• Germans decided to launch a surprise attack
  elsewhere

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Denmark and Norway

• April 9, 1940
• Hitler launched a surprise invasion
• Denmark fell in just 4 hours
• Norway surrendered 2 months later

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Significance of Denmark and Norway

• This gave Germany bases along the Norwegian and
  Danish coasts from which they could launch
  strikes on Great Britain

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Exit Slip

• Summarize the events that led to the second world
  war.