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| What aggressive steps did Hitler take? |
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| How did Britain and France respond to Hitler's aggression? |
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| How did Stalin respond to a potential German threat? |
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| When and where did the Germans successfully use the military strategy called the blitzkrieg?surprise and overwhelming force |
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French/German border
“He (De Gaulle) had no faith in the Maginot Line, he wrote: the next war would be fought with armored divisions, of which France had almost none.” (from Robert Daley, Portraits of France , 147) |
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| What was the "phony war"? |
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| stalemate early in the war between the Allied and German troops |
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| What were the effects of the fall of France? |
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| (Italy’s entry into the war, the creation of the Vichy government, the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk) |
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| “puppet” government headed by Petain, a French war hero from WWI – after the war he was condemned as a traitor for leading the pro-German Vichy regime |
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| What steps did Italy take? Why? |
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| (North Africa campaign, Tobruk-a town in Lydia were british forces retreated afters Rommel's Africa core attacked a year later Rommel captures Tobruk)
Mussolini: “I need a few thousand dead.” |
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| What were the British advantages in the Battle of Britain? |
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| How does "history repeat itself" with the German invasion of the Soviet Union? |
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| Soviets used the “scorched-earth” strategy to weaken the well equipped and well trained German army |
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| Leningrad did not fall, but the impatient Germans moved on to Moscow, where the Soviet general Zhukov counterattacked. Hitler demanded his troops stay – despite their summer uniforms which cost them 500,000 troops. |
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| an undeclared naval war between the U.S. and Germany |
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