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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * World War IIEuropean Theater Ms. Krall Welcome Back! Bell Ringer- Complete Pacific Battles Review sheet with your neighbor. Battles Quiz- Thursday! Start of the War… September 1, 1939 Hitler invades Poland. On hand 98 divisions, 1.5 million available for action. Had also 9 Panzer divisions. Each one had 328 tanks, 8 support battalions and 6 artillery batteries. Uses the tactic “blitzkrieg” or lightening War. End of September, German Army had control over the country. By November, Stalin invades Finland. European FrontInvasion of France From fall of 1939 to Spring of 1940, war in Europe was known as the “Sitzkreig” or sitting war. Attack begins in May. By June, Allied forces are evacuated from French town of Dunkirk to England (Operation Dynamo.) Paris is occupied June 14, 1940 During this period, Hitler plans invasion of France through Belgium. Goal was to reach the English channel and force France to surrender. Southern part of France was controlled by a puppet government (“Vichy France”) and led by Marshal Henri Petain. Was pro-German. Welcome Back… Bell Ringer…. What is Sitzkreig? What is Blitzkreig? What was the name of the planned evacuation of Allied troops? What was the planned invasion to invade England? The Battle of Britain “Operation Sea Lion” The German Luftwaffe had 2,800 aircraft, which outnumbered the Royal Air Force (RAF) four to one. August 1940, Germans begin to bomb Southern England. Objective was to land 160,000 German soldiers along a forty-mile coastal stretch of south-east England. Hitler hoped England would accept German domination of Europe. Postpones invasion until British air force could be destroyed. The “Blitz” In Sept. Germans begin the “Blitz” and shift their bombing to London and abandon invasion. On the first day of the Blitz, 430 citizens were killed. The German bombers returned the next day and a further 412 died. Between Sept. 1940-May 1941 two million houses (most in Lo