THE EVENTS LEADING TO WORLD WAR II

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THE EVENTS LEADING TO WORLD WAR II

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RHINELAND/DEMILITARIZED ZONE

• Hitler sent in troops (violated Versailles)
• Policy of appeasement (giving in ) by the West
• Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis formed

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RHINELAND
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Spanish Civil War

• Fascists vs. Communists

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ANSCHLUSS

• Hitler annexed Austria (violated Versailles)
• Munich Conference Hitler given Sudentenland
  (appeasement)
• Hitler took rest of Czechoslovakia

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Sudetenland
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NAZI-SOVIET PACT

• Hitler/Stalin agree to not fight one another

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INVASION OF POLAND- 1939

• BRITAIN AND FRANCE DECLARED WAR
• WORLD WAR 2 BEGAN

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Poland fell
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World War II Early Events (1939-1941)

• German strategy
• Blitzkrieg- lightning war
• Around the Maginot Line
• France fell (Vichy, France) puppet state
• Battle of Britain (the blitz) almost a year
• British PM Churchill would not give up
• The Germans in Africa- Rommel (Desert Fox)

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MAGINOT LINE
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ROMMEL
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Breaks pact with Stalin

• Operation Barbarossa German plan to invade the
  Soviet Union
• Seige of Leningrad 2 ½ years
• General Winter
• Germans pushed out of USSR

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LENINGRAD
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THE US ENTERED THE WAR

• General Tojo Japanese Supremacy in the Pacific
• Attacked Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941
• A Day which will live in infamy
• US entered the war as an ally President Franklin
  D. Roosevelt

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Pearl Harbor