The battle of brittain
- Led by Sir Hugh
- Main fire plains- spitfire and the hurricane
- Spitfire shoqt scattered bullets
- Germany was defeated because they fought too far from bases
- The British could land rearm and be in the air again quickly
- The battle of Britain remains one of the most famous battles in ww2
- German air force lost 60
- Royal air force only lost 28
- The planes shot down- german-1100 and royal air force-650
Major events
- Hitler planned to invade Britain
- On June 18 1940 Churchill gave a speech to the British people. Four days later France surrendered o Hitler and then Hitler turned his attention to Britain
Nanking, china massacre
- In December 1937 the Japanese Imperial Army marched into china’s capital city Nanking. They killed 3000,000 out of 600,000. A terrible massacre
- Burning, stabbings, drowning, rapes, strangulation, and much more for the first 6 weeks
- The streets of Nanking were said to literally have blood on the streets.
- The Japanese records of death toll was kept secret, and most likely destroyed In 1945, after the Japanese surrender
- Chinas death estimate was around 300,000
- Some bad historians say that the massacre never happened
- Some still can’t admit it
- A small group in the government won’t admit that it ever happened
- Some believe and some don’t
- 2.5 square mile in the city to protect the other half of the city
Anschluss
- Anschluss means union
- Referring to the union between Austria and Germany
- It was the invasion and annexation of Austria in march of 1938
- It was unsuccessful
- When Austria government changed to an authorization right-wing government. Germany began to get worried
- 1938 February, Hitler invited the Austria chancellor in Germany and forced him to let Germany pretty much take control.
- The chancellor disagreed but was bullied into the agreement
- It failed because Dollfuss banned the Nazi Party
- It failed because the Austrian military intervened to back up the government
- Nazis thought what they were doing was tearing the country apart
- 19378 succeeded
- Kurt agreed to a greater Nazi presence within Austria
- He appointed that Nazi minister of police and announced the amnesty for all Nazi prisoners
Policy of appeasement
- To bring to a state of peace, quiet, calm or contentment, pacify.
- Was the efforts by France and Britain in the 1930’s to allow Nazi Germany to have almost anything they wanted, hoping that Hitler would stop his aggressive ways
- They let Germany build up its army even though it wasn’t supposed to be allowed, according to the treaty of Versailles.
- They let him take Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
- They let him take the rest of Czechoslovakia
- This policy was supposed to get Hitler to stop what he was doing but all it really did was make him want to be more aggressive
- Many agreed that the treaty of Versailles was too hard on Germany and that they should have been fairer. They agreed Hitler had a right to react in outrage
- Britain and France couldn’t decide if soviet communism (Stalin) or Germany (Hitler) was a greater threat.
- They also were too far away to protect Poland and Czechoslovakia from invasion and felt like it was not their room to interfere but knew something had to be done.
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