HIS 102 1st Edition Lecture 36 Outline of Last Lecture I Rearming Breaching Versailles Military Limits II Reoccupying the Rhineland Breaching Versailles Territorial Provisions III Fascist Italy and Ethiopia Failure of the League of Nations IV Spanish Civil War A Polarized Europe V Anschluss Austria s Annexation VI Sudeten Crisis Appeasing Hitler VII Last Acts A Dismantling Czechoslovakia B Nazi Soviet Pact Outline of Current Lecture I War begins Sept 1939 April 1940 A Poland 1 After signing the non aggression pact with Soviet Union attack Poland i Blitzkrieg move fast surprise enemy ii Britain and France both declare war on Germany but neither launch an attack iii British and French mobilize armies and wait for Hitler to attack form Maginot lines on French border B The Phony War 1 C People were upset with the inaction Invasion of Denmark and Norway 1 Denmark gave way immediately 2 Norway gave way within a month These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute 3 Churchill 4 Chamberlain withdrew from office and was replaced with Winston Germany invaded France through the Ardennes forest i Unguarded because it was assumed the forest could not be passed by modern army II The Anglo American Front May 1940 May 1945 A Battle of France 1 Britain s air force was able to fight off just enough to allow evacuation to be extended 2 Evacuated 340 000 men with all manner of boats 3 Churchill able to spin the evacuation into enough of a victory to prevent the public from turning against the war effort B Battle of Britain 1 Hitler sends Luftwaffe and starts air attacks on Britain 2 Key target was the air fields trying to destroy the royal air force 3 Hitler backed down unable to achieve what he wanted by the time the winter storms came but had Luftwaffe continue 4 C London Blitz nighttime bombing raids Battle of the Atlantic 1 German shipping was interrupted by US and Britain i 2 D British and US became good at decoding Enigma messages Cash and carry policy passed by Roosevelt i Began American involvement in the war ii Roosevelt kept going around Congress to aid the war effort War shifts to North Africa then Italy 1 Campaign in North Africa against Egypt Britain had armed forces stationed in Egypt 2 E Battle of El Alamein i British were successful with help of Operation Torch ii Kicked Germans out into Tunisia Allied invasion of France 1 Anglo American front i Churchill s strategy to bring Roosevelt into the war British run out of money and become financially dependent on US III The Soviet Front June 1941 May 1945 A Barbarossa begins B Stalingrad and Kursk 1 Germans try to take Stalingrad after failing to take Moscow 2 Eventually Germans are forced to abandon attempt 3 Soviets have taken control of Eastern Front by 1943 but Germans still controlled large portions of West Soviet Union C Stalin s Left Turn into Southeastern Europe D The Final Push to Berlin 1 IV VE day victory in Europe Who really was responsible for victory A By the Numbers 1 Soviet front was larger and more pivotal for victory against the Nazi s than Anglo American front B Differences between the two fronts 1 In Soviet Fronts soldiers forced to go forward because if they turned back they d have to deal with their own police force 2 Soviets willing to take any kind of losses not true for Britain and US 3 British only went on the defensive at the end when US joined 4 Area bombing in discriminatory bombing Bombing of Dresden by Anglo Americans C Examining the Churchill Legend 1 If British had been defeated in Egypt the Germans would ve pushed on to the Middle East and have control of Suez canal and oil fields 2 Oswald Mosley 3 King Edward VIII abdicated throne 4 If Britain had fallen they probably would ve become a dictatorship and if this had happened US could not have participated in war
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