Transcript The Axis Advances - Hjelm's History Class

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.