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15.4 - Aggressors Invade Nations

Bonus Opportunity

What country was the first to invade another leading up to World War II?

JAPAN

Japan invades Manchuria

Who attacked first in Europe?

What about Germany?

Rhineland

Sudentenland

Czechoslovakia

Bonus Opportunity:What did Britain and France do about all these invasions?

Theodor Seuss Geisel

16.1 – Hitler’s Lightning War

Bonus Opportunity:What was the blitzkrieg tactic? What did it rely on?

What country was the first to fall under the German blitzkrieg?

Panzer divisions roll…

Phony War

Winter 1939/1940

France heavily defended Maginot Line on boarder of Fr. & Germ.

Germans waited a few miles away on their own Siegfried Line

No one attacked, no fighting ensued

Schlieffen Plan – WW1

Blitzkrieg – WW2

May 10 – 16, 1940

May 16 – 21, 1940

And for my next trick….

What was the Battle of Britain?

England prepares its defenses

Pictures of battle of Britain devastation

Hitler attacks Russia

Bonus: What was the Lend-Lease Act?

Churchill & Roosevelt

What was the Atlantic Charter?