Chapter 3 World War II

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World War II

Volgens de afspraken van het bondgenootschap van de As-mogendheden, verklaren Duitsland en Italië op 11 december de oorlog aan de Verenigde Staten.

Could you name a cause of World War II? Try and explain it.

Lebensraum

• Splitting of Austria-Hungary after WW1 → Germans living in other countries 
• Greater German Reich 
• Germany had no colonies → Become self-sufficient → Lebensraum

Democratically elected - NSDAP in AD 1933

Hitler violates the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, but other countries do not protest

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• Hitler stops the war reparation payments
  
• Rebuild Army - Conscription
  
• 1935 Saar Plebiscite
• AD 1936 - Marches troops into the Rhineland
  
• 1938 Anschluss 

AD 1936 – Alliance with Mussolini (fascism)

Germany + Italy =  Axis powers

What was lebensraum and why did Germany need to expand?

Situation in AD 1938

September –

The Munich Conference

> Peace treaty: Great Britain, France, Italy & Germany

Cost: Sudetenland

SU was not invited

Policy of appeasement

= making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict

The Munich Conference

Chamberlain (GB):

‘Peace in our lifetime’

March - Hitler invades Czechoslovakia

What was the appeasement policy? Explain also why it was used.

The start

• - Germany invades Poland on September 1st 1939.
• - Because of the non-agression pact  (Molotov-Ribbentrop pact) Russia attacks too. 
• - Brittain and France declare war on Germany: World War 2 begins

Benefits of making a deal with the Soviet Union,

for Germany

No longer a threat on the Eastern front

Expanding the German territory (Lebensraum!)

Better able to withstand the Allied forces in the West

(Germany + Soviet Union together = force to be reckoned with)

Blitzkrieg

• - The Germans were succesful with their Blitzkrieg.
• - Literally: ''Lightning War''
• - Blitzkrieg was used to signify a surprise attack or lightning-fast advance. 

War in Europe

• - 10th of May 1940: Hitler attacks Western Europe with succes (the Netherlands had hoped to stay neutral...). 
• Also invades Belgium, Luxembourg and France

The Netherlands capitulates on the 15th of May after the bombing of Rotterdam

Maginot line. Defensive line between Belgium, Luxembourg en Germany. 

Weak spot was the Belgian Ardenne

Battle of Britain

July - October 1940

• The German attack on Great Britain. Thanks to the invention of the radar, Great Britain manages to fend off Germany.

• However, the German bombardments of British cities continue ...
  

1) Anschluss 

2) Battle of Britain

3) German invasion of Belgium, The Netherlands and France

4) German invasion of Poland 

5) Rhineland remilitarised 

6) Munich Conference

Put the following events in the correct sequence

Why was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact good for Germany?

Name a big diffrence in warfare between WW1 and WW2.

1942

• - Operation Barbarossa 22 June AD 1941

• Beginning was a succes - until the Battle of Stalingrad 1942-1943 = turning point

No succes! - Scorched Earth Tactic 

What can you tell me about operation barbasorra?
And what can you tell me about the battle of Stalingrad? Try and use concepts / keywords

23. Put the events  of the WW2

in the correct chronological order

Atomic bomb on Hiroshima

D-Day

VE-Day

Battle of stalingrad

Operation Barbarossa

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

Name two things you've learned this lesson

Write down something you don't yet understand