Week of March 2-5

Monday-  quick review of germany in WWII powerpoint. Talked in a Brittish accent in front of the class

-Axis invasion of the balkans (yugoslavia) -1941 , hitler invaded poland, demark, beligum, nethlands, norway, france, yugoslavia, 

nazi goals

  • destroy the royal air force (before invasion was possible- hopefully by 9-15)
  • attack and destroy the birish navy
  • attack brittish troops
  • once air control was gained the invasion of great brittain would bgain
  • germany never succeeded in achieving #1
  • german bombers did so poorly against the RAF that they started bombing at night only
  • great brittain was aided heavily by radar and ultra  -(main reason why ALLIES won!! .. had a system called ULTRA. biggest known secret of the war up intil the 1970s code name for interception to detect them!)] ultra magic.. enemny was able to deciefer it

royal air foce-

  • if it was for the royal air force and fighting luftwaffe, would of not won the war

Biggest invasion in history -- german invasion of USSR- june, 1941
plan for operation

they get around moscow miles away, russian winter sets in and changes the time of the war, lenningrad- germans didnt invade, they surrounded and star people in the summision . '

germans invade-- russians plan was to retreat -- 

scroched earth policy-- burn everything so the soviets and germans cant use it.  

battle of moscow- soviet winter  .. turning point of the war. soviet forces pushes back ..  

battle of stalingrad-- biggest battle of world history (stalin gave order do not retreat. die as a tradeer or die against figting the germans ..  

leningrad- city of the north. did not invade city, they surroundded it.

Tuesday-   review----

germany- hitler comes to power 1933 legaly. apointed chancolorer. agreesivly dropped out of league of nations. 

1938- takes over austria , checslovacia, to reunit german speaking people.

!!!!!!!!!!!! MUNICH COMFERENCE 1938.  gave hitler sudetenland area.

become known as a policy to hitler, to prevent from war from breakin out (apeasment policy)

hitler broke his promise at the munich conference and took over entire checkoolovskia 1939.  now we have to go to war (invasion of poland)

non agression pact- 1.agree to trade with one a

nother 2. agree to invade us with poland 3. agreeed not to fight with eachtoher. not official alliance.

three axis powers -- germany itally japan

soviet union not part of axis powers

invasion of poland (1939)

the phony war nicknamed becasue nothing happened during the winter of 39 and 40.

NAME 5 COUNTRIES THAT HITLER TOOK OVER IN 1940- NETHERLANDS, FRANCE, DENMARK, BELGIUM, NORWAY, 

1939 invation of poland

1938 autria

1939 poland

1940-denamrk norway, belgium luxingberg, netherlands, france

impenetrable maginot line- really worthless... 

miricale of dunrik only thing positive that happens to allies. german tropps pushed them back.

1941 invaded bonklin penesula, brittian is the only cocuntry left

battle of britaan- briatn only country left standing in 1942.. being bombed everyday by germany into submission 

royal airforce saved great britaain -- radar and ultra helped

hitlers biggest mistakwe of war-invading soviet union

hitler belie4ved that if he took over 3 cities-- 1.lennigrad 2.moscow 3. stallingrad  that the soviet union would surrender.. hiler never got those cities

major turnin gpoint of the war of the soviet yunion -- -the winter of 42

germany needed to take over before the winter

northern part of aferica took place of fighting

41-42 fightings in north aferica 

battle of the buldge-- hitlers last offsensive 

- germany split intwo 4 zones. eventualy 2 countries. west germany and east germany 

west germany was our allies.. east germany was taken ovver by soviets

germans were suddenly our friends

what was the goal of nazi propaganda??? ---- in general german nationalizim. proud to be german.. get people to join military, jews are bad, join war

6 million jews were killed in the holocaust   around 12 million people

who was inferior acordding to hitler? 1. gypsies (known as roma today)  group of people that moved into eruopse from asia.. they stole things.  mentally physically handicapped people, so they dont reproduce...  

blond hair blue eyes

Wednesday-  

-soviet slavs/POW's/ - inferior ethnic group hitler did not like, believed they were inferior
-poles (2.5 mil dead)
-homosexuals
-dark skinned people
-mix races
-jehovas witness

-aryan race -- think of blonde hair blue eyed

(so called master race)

-nuremburg laws

-no sexual relations between non-jewish germans and jews 

-nazis boycott jewish owned business 1936

-kristallnacht 1938- nazis roamed through jewish neighbors hoods and breaking windows of bussiness and homes   

-26000 jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps

-91 died in the attack 

1940- nazis begin deporting german jews poland.. jews forced to the ghettos

war breaking  out ... hitler taking over france denmark netherlands norway,'

1945- end of war death camps are found emptied , war ends in eroupe, many survivors are placed in a displaced persons camps until they find a country willing to accept them 

Thursday-

Friday- End of the quarter no school 

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