April 4-9

Monday- Finished Japan, Started Germany

Tuesday- Germany

Wednesday- Career Fair

Thursday- Ortho

Friday- Germany

Japan

Battle of Okinawa
Operation Downfall
- Attack on Japan
  - didn't happen because of atomic bombing
- Saved about 750,000 lives
VJ Day
- Victory over Japan
- August 14, or 15
- US
  - September 2nd
Potsdam Conference
- Atly
- Churchill
- Stalin
- FDR
  - Japan
    - US would occupy for seven years
    - Lose all territories gained
    - Military Disarmed
    - War trials
    - Democracy set up
    - Japan could use industry to make money
    - Japan must have an unconditional surrender

Germany

Treaty of Versailles
- What it did to Germany
  - Germany was broken into many small countries
  - Lost land to
    - France
    - Belgium
    - Denmark
    - Czechoslovakia
  - Military
    - Germany was demilitarized
      - Rhineland
  - Money
    - Germany payed $33 million dollars
  - War Guilt Clause
    - Had to take credit for the war
- Stab in the back theory
  - Germany could've won WWII
  - Thought the Treaty of Versailles embarrassed Germany
Weimar Republic
- Government set up after the first world war
- Democracy
Beer Hall Putsch
- Nazi's gave speeches in beer halls
- Attack to intimidate and over through the government
- Failed, Hitler went to jail
  - Served 9 months for good behavior
Hitler
- Born in Austria
- Struggled in school
- Rise to power
  - Drops out of League of Nations
  - Starts rearming Germany
  - Rearmed the German Rhineland area
  - Austria became part of Germany
  - Trying to "reunite German speaking people
  - Tried to get a part of Czechoslovakia
    - Munich conference was held
      - Hitler giving part of Czechoslovakia
      - Hitler promised to stop
      - Chamberlain was appeasing Hitler
      - Churchill opposed appeasement
  - Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia
  - Germany and Soviet Union sign Non-aggression pact
    - Russia gave trades to Germany
    - Both agreed to stay neutral if other entered the war
    - Secretly agreed to invade Poland
    - Russia would get
      - Finland
      - Estonia
      - Latvia
    - Germany would get
      - Lithuania
Battle of Britain
- Raf- Royal air force
  - Never lost air superiority
- Location
  - in Britain during the day
  - in Britain during the night
Germany invasion of the USSR
- Operation of Barbarossa
  - Blitzkrieg
  - Germany moved in very fast
  - USSR fought to the death or they were shot by their own people
  - Germany lost due to winter
  - USSR SLOWLY pushed Germany beck
  - Cities Hitler focused on
    - Stalingrad
      - City is South
    - Leningrad
      - City in the north
        Germany surrounded them and starved them
US entering the war

North Africa
Italy
France

Germany battle strategies
- The Atlantic Wall
  - Set up of
    - artillery
    - tank defensive
    - mines
    - barb wire
Germany Assassination Plot
- Hitler would kill or jail generals
  - replaced with yes man most likely young
- Hitler was given briefcase with bomb
  - Hitler survived and became cautious
Battle of the Bulge
- Bulge in France to get to the sea and surround US and Britain and cut them off
  - Germany never got to the sea
Elbe River
- US troops meet Soviet troops at Elbe River in Germany

Hitler's Suicide

Him and his wife committed suicide together
Took Cyanide pills, and then shot himself

The Holocaust

Genocide of about 6 million Jews
A program of systematic

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