Chapter 3 World War II

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    Chapter 3 
World War II

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Volgens de afspraken van het bondgenootschap van de As-mogendheden, verklaren Duitsland en Italië op 11 december de oorlog aan de Verenigde Staten.

Slide 2 - Tekstslide

Could you name a cause of World War II? Try and explain it.

Slide 3 - Woordweb

Lebensraum
  • Splitting of Austria-Hungary after WW1 → Germans living in other countries 
  • Greater German Reich 
  • Germany had no colonies → Become self-sufficient → Lebensraum

Slide 4 - Tekstslide

Slide 5 - Tekstslide

Democratically elected - NSDAP in AD 1933

Hitler violates the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, but other countries do not protest

  • Hitler stops the war reparation payments
  • Rebuild Army - Conscription
  • 1935 Saar Plebiscite
  • AD 1936 - Marches troops into the Rhineland
  • 1938 Anschluss 
AD 1936 – Alliance with Mussolini (fascism)
Germany + Italy =  Axis powers

Slide 6 - Tekstslide

What was lebensraum and why did Germany need to expand?

Slide 7 - Open vraag

Situation in AD 1938



September –
The Munich Conference
> Peace treaty: Great Britain, France, Italy & Germany
Cost: Sudetenland

SU was not invited

Slide 8 - Tekstslide

Policy of appeasement
= making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict
The Munich Conference
Chamberlain (GB):
‘Peace in our lifetime’

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

March - Hitler invades Czechoslovakia

Slide 10 - Tekstslide

What was the appeasement policy? Explain also why it was used.

Slide 11 - Open vraag

The start
  • - Germany invades Poland on September 1st 1939.
  • - Because of the non-agression pact  (Molotov-Ribbentrop pact) Russia attacks too. 
  • - Brittain and France declare war on Germany: World War 2 begins

Slide 12 - Tekstslide

Benefits of making a deal with the Soviet Union,
for Germany

No longer a threat on the Eastern front

Expanding the German territory (Lebensraum!)

Better able to withstand the Allied forces in the West

(Germany + Soviet Union together = force to be reckoned with)

Slide 13 - Tekstslide

Blitzkrieg
  • - The Germans were succesful with their Blitzkrieg.
  • - Literally: ''Lightning War''
  • - Blitzkrieg was used to signify a surprise attack or lightning-fast advance. 

Slide 14 - Tekstslide

War in Europe
  • - 10th of May 1940: Hitler attacks Western Europe with succes (the Netherlands had hoped to stay neutral...). 
  • Also invades Belgium, Luxembourg and France

Slide 15 - Tekstslide

The Netherlands capitulates on the 15th of May after the bombing of Rotterdam

Slide 16 - Tekstslide

Maginot line. Defensive line between Belgium, Luxembourg en Germany. 
Weak spot was the Belgian Ardenne

Slide 17 - Tekstslide

Slide 18 - Video


Battle of Britain
July - October 1940




  • The German attack on Great Britain. Thanks to the invention of the radar, Great Britain manages to fend off Germany.
  • However, the German bombardments of British cities continue ...

Slide 19 - Tekstslide

Slide 20 - Tekstslide



1) Anschluss 
2) Battle of Britain
3) German invasion of Belgium, The Netherlands and France




4) German invasion of Poland 
5) Rhineland remilitarised 
6) Munich Conference

Put the following events in the correct sequence

Slide 21 - Tekstslide

Why was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact good for Germany?

Slide 22 - Open vraag

Name a big diffrence in warfare between WW1 and WW2.

Slide 23 - Open vraag

1942
  • - Operation Barbarossa 22 June AD 1941

  • Beginning was a succes - until the Battle of Stalingrad 1942-1943 = turning point

Slide 24 - Tekstslide

No succes! - Scorched Earth Tactic 

Slide 25 - Tekstslide

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Slide 27 - Tekstslide

Slide 28 - Video

What can you tell me about operation barbasorra?
And what can you tell me about the battle of Stalingrad? Try and use concepts / keywords

Slide 29 - Open vraag

23. Put the events  of the WW2
in the correct chronological order
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
D-Day
VE-Day
Battle of stalingrad
Operation Barbarossa
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

Slide 30 - Sleepvraag

Slide 31 - Kaart

Slide 32 - Tekstslide

Name two things you've learned this lesson

Slide 33 - Open vraag

Write down something you don't yet understand

Slide 34 - Open vraag