German Aggression in WWII

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GERMAN AGGRESSION IN WW2

• _____ Hitler re-arms Germany
• _______________ limited Germanys army
• Hitler openly began building up the military
• US, Britain and France did nothing!
  (______________)

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March of 1938 - _____________

• Unification of Germany and ___________
• The Munich Conference

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The Start of WWII

• _______, 1939, Hitler declares war on _____
• The first ____________ (Lightning War)
• _______________________ (large groups of tanks)
  punch holes in Polish defenses, drive deep into
  enemy territory
• ________ (foot soldiers) follows through gaps
• Dive bombers strike deep inside Poland, attack
  ___________ and ________________

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The fall of __________

• The Polish military is large but outdated
• Poland was allies with Britain and France.
  ___________, Britain and France declared war on
  Germany, but they ____________________
  ___________________________________ !
• Sept. 17th, _____invades Poland from the east!
• Hitler and Stalin had signed a non-aggression
  pact in 1939 and had secretly agreed to divide
  Poland between them.
• Poland surrendered in __________

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Denmark and Norway

• Hitler wants control of the _____________
• Attacks Denmark with bombers and paratroopers
• Denmark surrenders in ___________!
• Norway is protected by water, harder to attack
• Germany invades by air and sea
• Norway surrenders in _____________

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Netherlands and Belgium

• Both have small armies and want to stay
  _______________
• Hitler wants to control the _______________
  (the entire Atlantic coast of Europe)
• Hitler attacks. Minor resistance, but both fall
  within ____________

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___________

• The French army was as large and as strong as
  Germanys
• France had built a huge system of defenses along
  the border called the __________________
• British troops protected the _____________ border

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France

• Only one gap existed in the defenses the
  ___________________
• Germany attacked through the __________!
• Attacked the Maginot Line from ________, cutting
  off most of the French army
• __________________the British and remaining
  French troops in the north

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France

• France surrendered in ______________
• General ____________________escaped and organized
  the French Resistance

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Battle of __________

• Hitler wanted to invade Britain, but Britain was
  an _______protected by the British Navy
• Hitlers Plan
• Step 1 destroy Britains ___________ (RAF)
• Step 2 use the German air force (_________) to
  chase away the British ________
• Step 3 invade Britain across the __________
  _____________

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Battle of Britain

• Luftwaffe outnumbered the RAF _____
• Britain built planes and trained pilots as fast
  as possible
• ____________ rallied the British people
• We shall defend our __________, whatever the
  cost may be, we shall fight on the ____________,
  we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall
  fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall
  fight in the hills we shall never
  _______________.

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Battle of Britain

• The Luftwaffe ______________________ Hitler
  calls off the invasion
• Churchill Never in the field of human conflict
  was so much owed by so many to so few.
• But, Germany continued _______________ British
  cities for ______ more years! (________________)
  

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USSR

• ____________, Hitler broke his non-aggression
  pact with ____________ and launched the largest
  invasion in history (_______________________!)
• ________________________________
• Germany _________ captured hundreds of miles of
  Soviet territory, killed and captured millions of
  Russians

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USSR, cont.

• Stalin makes an alliance with ____________, but
  there is little __________ can do to help
• Stalin ordered his army to stop the Germans at
  all cost, but the Germans still advanced
• By ___________, the German army was just a few
  miles from capturing ____________

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December 1941

• The Allies are in ____________ Hitler appears
  __________________
• The only country strong enough to stop Hitler is
  the ______, but most _____________ are
  ____________
• Churchill goes to _____________ and begs
  Roosevelt for help, but FDR says the US will
  ________________________________________
• Then, on _______________________, Churchills
  prayers are answered in an unexpected way