The Axis Advances - Hjelm's History Class
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The Axis Advances
CHAPTER 14.2
The Axis Attacks
Nazi
Germany invaded Poland from one side with
the blitzkrieg (lightning war), while the Soviets
came from the other.
France
and Britain had no time to help.
The Axis Attacks
Then
Germany attacked France from the north,
and Italy invaded from the south.
They
set up a puppet state with the capital of
Vichy
The Axis Attacks
Some
French officers set up a government-in-exile
in Britain under Charles De Gaulle
When
France fell, only Britain stood against the
Axis powers.
The Axis Attacks
A
Nazi bombing campaign against London and
other cities only strengthened British resolve.
Meanwhile,
Axis armies also pushed into North Africa
and the Balkans.
Germany Invades Soviet Union
Hitler
invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 in the hopes
of gaining its natural resources and putting down
communism.
Hitler’s
advance was stalled by the brutal Russian winter,
but Russians in Leningrad suffered a two-and-a-half-year
siege that caused mass starvation.
Life Under Japanese and Nazi
Occupation
The
people who lived in lands occupied by the Nazis
and the Japanese were often brutally treated.
Hitler’s
forces sent Polish and Soviet Slavs to work as
slave laborers, and the Jewish people got the same
and worse in Nazi “death camps.”
Life Under Japanese and Nazi
Occupation
The
Japanese killed and tortured Asians whom they
claimed to help free from Western colonial rule.
Japan Attacks the U.S.
When
the U.S. banned the sale of war materials to
Japan after its invasion of French Indochina,
Japan and the U.S. participated in unsuccessful
talks.
Japanese
General Tojo ordered an attack on the
American fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Japan Attacks the U.S.
December
7, 1941
Happened
just before 8 a.m. & lasted just two hours
Hundreds
of Japanese fighter planes attacked the
American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu,
Hawaii.
Japan Attacks the U.S.
The
Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20
American naval vessels, including eight enormous
battleships, and almost 200 airplanes.
More
than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in
the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.
Japan Attacks the U.S.
The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
asked Congress to declare war on Japan
Three days later, Germany and Italy (Japanese allies)
declared war on the United States, and again Congress
reciprocated.
After 2+ years, America had finally joined World War II.