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NaziGermany.pptxNazi Germany
Brenda Thomas
LaShuntae Jackson
The Rise of Nazi Germany
Hitler’s Expanding Axis
The United States’ Intervention
The Collapse of Nazi Germany
Key Points
The Rise of Nazi Germany
Hitler (Chancellor) January 30, 1933
Created A Secret Police Force
No Election
No Labor Unions
No Strikes
Cont. Hitler’ Expanding Axis
1. The Battle of Great Britain
German bombers attack Great Britain: The Blitz
b.In July and August 1940, the German Air Force launched day and night bombing raids against military targets across Southeast England. The air raids killed some 43,000 civilians, wounded thousands more, and left 2 million homeless.
Hitler’s Expanding Axis
Cont. Hitler’s Expanding Axis
2. Invades The Soviet Union
a. In April 1941 invading Nazi armies overwhelmed Yugoslavia and Greece. With Hungary Romania and Bulgaria under Nazi control, Hitler ruled nearly all of Europe.
b. On July 22, 1941 without warning massive German armies invaded their supposed alley, the Soviet Union, in “Operation Barbarossa.” Hitler's decision to attack the Soviet Union was the defining moment of the European war, for the German eventually would be worn down and thrown back by the Soviets.
Cont. Hitler’ Expanding Axis
3. The Attack on Pearl Harbor
American battleships were sunk disabled along with eleven other ships, japanese bombers also destroyed 180 American warplanes.
The raid which lasted less than two hours, killed more than 2,400 American servicemen and civilians and wounded nearly 1,200 more.The surprise Japanese attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 which prompted the immediate American entry into the war.
The United States’ Intervention
1. The Manhattan Project
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer led the team of almost 200,000 people which consisted of distinguished scientists scattered among several secret facilities across the country to develop an atomic bomb before the German did.
This was a top secret effort set up by the President June 1940 called the National Defense Research Committee to coordinate military research.
Cont. The United States’ Intervention
2. The Lend Lease Bill
Introduced in Congress on January 10,1941.
Allowed the President to lend or lease military equipment to any country whose defense of the United States.
Cont. The United States’ Intervention
3. The Tripartite Pact
September 27, 1940 the Tokyo government signed a pact with Germany and Italy.
Each pledged to declare war on any nation that attacked any of them.
Cont. The United States’ Intervention
4. The Atlantic Charter 1941
Joint statement crafted by Franklin D. Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill listed the war goals of the allied powers.
The Collapse of Nazi Germany
Soviet troops enter Berlin.
Germany surrenders.
Hitler married his mistress, she poisoned herself, and he killed himself two days later.
May 2, Berlin fell. Five days later, on May 7 the chief of staff of the German armed forces signed a treaty agreeing to unconditional surrender.
Cont. The Collapse of Nazi Germany
1. The Casablanca Conference
The British convinced the Americans that they should follow up the victory in North Africa with an assault on Germany and Italian forces on the Italian island of Sicily.
Roosevelt announced that the war would end only with the unconditional surrender of all enemy nations.
Cont. The Collapse of Nazi Germany
2. The Normandy Landings
The Normandy invasion was a turning point in the war.
German headquarters near Paris warned Hitler, “The enemy air superiority is terrific and smothers almost everyone of our movements….. Losses in men and equipment are extraordinary.”
Work Cited
Emory, Shi David. America The Essential Learning Edition. Vol. 2. New York, NY, 2018.
