World War II Chapter 17 Section 1 Where did we leave off?

Hitler Prepares to Invade England
• Hitler prepares Operation Sea Lion.
• He begins by bombing military sites in Southern England.
• He soon switches to nighttime bombing of British cities.
• This was called the London Blitz. The city was bombed for 57 straight nights and then
for months afterwards.
Germany Fails to Take England
• Germany cannot gain air superiority over England.
• The British are not discouraged but are instead more resolved to fight.
• The fighting then moves to several areas in North Africa, Greece, and Yugoslavia.
• Erwin Rommel is the successful German commander in North Africa.
Operation Barbarossa
• Hitler invades Russia in June 1941.
• He wanted the raw materials of Russia.
• Three millions soldiers invaded Russia.
• The Russians lost millions of soldiers but kept moving east. By December, Germans
were freezing to death. This will be Hitler’s biggest blunder.
Land Occupied by Nazi Germany
• Native groups were shoved aside for Lebensraum of German people.
• Prisoners were tortured and opposition murdered.
• Native populations were used as slave laborers.
• Jews and political opponents were sent to concentration camps.
The Final Solution
• The Nazis sought a “solution” for the problem of all non-Aryan Races.
• By 1941, the Nazis decided to eliminate all European Jews and other “undesirables” in
six death camps in Poland.
The Holocaust
• Over Six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.
• Over six million other people were killed as well.
• Many were gassed in the shower rooms of the six Polish death camps.
• Many occupied countries assisted with the Holocaust although many individuals
resisted.
• Japanese conquests were equally brutal.