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Title: World War II Begins


1
World War II Begins
  • By Sarah Gurley

2
German Resistance
  • In 1939-
  • British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy
  • United States proclaims neutrality
  • Canada declares war on Germany
  • Warsaw surrenders to the Nazis

3
War Full Steam Ahead
  • Nazis and the Soviets divide up Poland
  • Soviets attack Finland
  • Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations
  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway

4
War Full Steam Ahead
  • 1940-Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and
    the Netherlands
  • Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
  • Holland and Belgium surrender to the Nazis
  • Germans bomb Paris
  • Norway surrenders

5
Britain Fights Back
  • Italy declares war on Britain and France
  • Germans enter Paris
  • German U-boats attack merchant ships in the
    Atlantic
  • Battle of Britain begins
  • Air battles and daylight raids over Britain

6
Axis Powers Formed
  • Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
  • Italians occupy British Somaliland in East Africa
  • Italians invade Egypt
  • Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy
    and Japan
  • German troops enter Romania
  • Italy invades Greece
  • Hungary and Romania join the Axis Powers

7
More Captured Countries
  • Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia
  • Yugoslavia and Greece surrender
  • Sinking of the Bismarck by the British Navy
  • Allies invade Syria and Lebanon
  • United States freezes German and Italian assets
    in America
  • British occupy Syria

8
War Continues
  • Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United
    States and suspends relations
  • United States announces an oil embargo against
    aggressor states
  • Nazi siege of Leningrad begins
  • First experimental use of gas chambers at
    Auschwitz

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Now time for a movie
  • Sink the Bismark
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