The Axis Advances
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The Axis Advances
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The Blitzkrieg
• “Lightning War”• Luftwaffe bombs factories and airfields • Tanks and troop transports advance rapidly.
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Fall of France
• Poland falls in a month.• Hitler invades France, through the Ardennes
Forest in Belgium, in May 1940. – Close to Schlieffen Plan.
• France surrenders in 6 weeks.
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Miracle at Dunkirk
• 338,000 trapped British and French troops are evacuated.
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Vichy France
• Puppet government set up by Germany after France’s fall
• Continued Nazi’s racial policies.– Sent Jews and other “undesirables” to camps in
Germany.
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Battle of Britain
• Britain stands alone.• August 1940 begins a daily bombardment of
England. • Radar gives early warning. • RAF is outnumbered but fights valiantly.
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Who do you consider a civilian, a non-combatant in the war?
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London Blitz
• September 1940, Hitler targets civilian cities.• London is bombed 57 nights in a row. • People continued about their daily lives.