Describe How European Leaders Attempted to Appease Adolf Hitler and Avoid War

Name______Date______Per__

• Describe how European leaders attempted to appease Adolf Hitler and avoid war.
• Explain the onset of another continental war in Europe.
• Discuss Britain’s resolve in the early years of the war.

• After establishing his rule in Germany, Hitler began to make demands and conquer nearby European territories. The Allied response (at first) was to appease, but eventually war was the only option.

US Follows an Isolationist Policy

•As European tensions increase the Unites States attempts to remain ______.

•1935- US Congress passed a series of ______in response to American ______sentiment

German Unification

•In February 1938, Adolf Hitler threatened to invade ______unless Austrian

Nazis were given important government posts.

•In March 1938, Hitler announced the ______, of Austria and Germany.

Hitler Gets Greedy

•Hitler claimed the______(an area of Czechoslovakia with a

large German-speaking population).

•Czechs strongly ______Germany’s demand for the Sudetenland.

Appeasement

•______, the ______, and ______

threatened to ______Germany if it attacked Czechoslovakia.

•At the ______on September 29, 1938,

Britain and France, hoping to ______another ______, agreed to Hitler’s demands in a policy known as ______.

Appeasement Fails

•In March 1939, Germany sent troops into Czechoslovakia, bringing the Czech lands under German ______.

Hitler Wants to be Heard

•Hitler demanded the return of Danzig—______Baltic Sea______.

•He also wanted a highway and railroad across the Polish Corridor.

•These demands convinced the British and French that appeasement had ______.

Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

•In May 1939, Hitler ordered the invasion of ______by the German army.

•On August 23, 1939, Germany and the USSR signed a ______treaty, with a secret agreement to ______Poland.

War Begins

•On September 1, 1939, Germany and the USSR invaded ______. On September 3, Britain and France declared war on Germany—starting ______.

Blitzkreig

•In German blitzkrieg means “______”.

•Hitler used blitzkrieg during his invasion of Poland.

•Blitzkrieg included ______, rapid advances into enemy territory, and massive ______that struck and shocked the enemy.

•Germany achieved most of its victories in World War II with the Blitzkrieg tactic.

•On April 9, 1940, the German army attacked Norway and Denmark. Within a ______, Germany overtook both countries.

War Begins

•After World War I, the French built a line of concrete bunkers and fortifications

called the ______ along the German border.

•When Hitler decided to attack France, he went around the Maginot Line by invading

the Netherlands,______, and Luxembourg.

•The French and British forces quickly went into Belgium, becoming ______there

by German forces.

Germany Claims France

•By June 4, about ______British and French troops had evacuated to ______in an event called the ______at Dunkirk.

•On June 22, 1940, France______to the Germans. Germany installed a puppet

government in France.

Hitler Works Fast

Within _____ months Hitler had conquered Czechoslovakia

•______

•Norway

•Denmark

•______

•And ______

Britain Remains Defiant

•Hitler thought that Britain would negotiate ______after France surrendered.

•He did not anticipate the ______of the British people and their prime minister, Winston ______.

•On June 4, 1940, Churchill delivered a defiant speech that rallied the British people and alerted the ______to Britain’s plight.

•To invade Britain, Germany had to defeat the British ______.

•In the ______, the German air force, the Luftwaffe, launched an all-out air battle to destroy the British Royal Air Force.

• After German bombers bombed London, the British responded by bombing ______, Germany.

Royal Air Force

•The Royal Air Force was greatly outnumbered by the Luftwaffe, but the British had ______stations and were able to detect incoming German aircraft and direct British fighters to ______them.

•Hitler ______Britain is the winner!