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Blitzkrieg - Coggle Diagram
Blitzkrieg
Stalin and Hitler sign a secret pact
Stalin could take over Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
Germany and Russia divide Poland
September 1, 1939: Hitler launches surprise attack on Poland
April 9, 1940: Hitler launches surprise invasion of Denmark and Norway
Denmark and Norway fall
Germans build bases along the coasts to launch strikes on Britain
May 1940: Hitler began dramatic sweep through the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
German force of tanks slice through the Ardennes and "squeeze between" the Maginot Line
They reached France's coast in ten days
Resistance in France began to crumble
June 14, 1940: Germans take Paris
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By the end of May 1940, Allied forces were trapped in the beaches of Dunkirk
850 British ships and many civilian boats sailed back 338,000 soldiers back to safety across the English Channel
The Allies waited for the German attack
Nothing happend
Jokingly called the Phony War
September 17, 1939: Stalin sends armies into the lands he was promised. Only the Finish resist
Soviets not prepared for winter war, so they suffered big losses but win in the end
10 year nonaggression
Pacific Campaign
1931: Japan takes over Manchuria
1937: Japan swept into China
Chinese resistance causes war to drag on
October 1940, Americans cracked Japanese codes
Americans were aware of the Japanese plans for Southeast Asia
U.S. sends support to Chinese resistance
Japanese overrun French Indochina
Roosevelt cuts of old shipments to Japan
Japanese hoped to catch Allies by surprise
December 7, 1941: attack on Pearl Harbor
America officially in the war
Guam and Wake fall of the Japanese
January 1942, Japan takes the Phillipenes
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