April 4-9

Monday - Gone for State Student Council.

Tuesday -

Germany

Hitler
- Appointed Chalcellor in 1933
- President Paul von Hindenburg dies shortly after and Hitler dissolves the Weimer Republic
- Early Actions:
  - Drops out of League of Nations
  - Starts rearming Germany
  - Rearms the German Rhineland area
- Anschluss with Austria (1938)
  - Unite with Austria
  - Hitler took over Austria
  - Positions themselves to take Czech
- Sudetenland Crisis (1938)
  - "Re-uniting Germany speaking people"
- Sudetenland/Munich Conference
  - Neville Chamberlain/UK, Hitler, Mussolini/Italy, and Edouard Daladier/France
  - Hitler was given the land
  - Hitler promised that he was done taking over territories
    - Wanted to take what was "rightfully" theirs
  - Became known as the "Policy of the Appeasement"
  - Winston Churchill opposed appeasement
    - Said that we need to step up
- Hitler takes over entire Czech in 1939
  - Great Britain and France don't do anything
  - They have a meeting and say that they need to stop Hitler
- Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression APct
  - Russia gave raw materials to Germany in exchange for money and weapons
  - Both agreed to stay neutral if the other entered the war
  - Secretly agreed to invade and split Poland. Germany would get the western half the the other for Soviets.
  - Russia would get Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Germany would get Lithuania
- Blitzkrieg
  - Overwelm the enemy
  - Heavily bomb defenses and factories
  - Make Hitler overly confident
- Sitzkrieg - The Phony War
  - Nothing really happened during the 1940 winter months because Poland just gave up and other countries were mobilizing
- Tripartite Pact is signed - Axis Powers 1940
- Spring 1940/The Phony War Ends
  - What countries did Hitler invade and take over in 1940 (spring and early summer)?
    - Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, etc.
- France was half run by Germany, other other half run by France but still under German rule
- Axis Invasion
  - Yugoslavia, Greece, Albania, etc.

Wednesday - Career Fair.

Thursday -

Germany

Royal Air Force - the British Air force was what saved Britain
Air Raids during the Blitz - In London, they would all hide underground/basements/etc.
- Results, Britain won by the fact that Germany did not achieve their goals to destroy GB (they lost a lot of planes, never invaded, and lost a lot of men)
  - They lost a lot of planes, so they began bombing at night
- Germany changed their focus to underwater attacks
Operation Barbarossa
- Largest military operation in history
- Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Moscow
  - Wanted those 3 cities
Battle of Moscow
- December 6th,, 1941 - April 30th, 1942
- Rissian winter sets in which makes an extreme turning point in the war
Seige of Leningrad
- November 1941 - October 1942
- Took over Leningrad and staved people
- 641,000 killed because of starvation
- Germany never took the city, but it was one of the most costly conflicts Russian have ever faced (over 1 million died)
First time we really fought Italy or Germany was in North Africa
- Operation Torch
Operation Avalanche
- Invade Italy
- Malta, then Sicily, and then the mainland
- Surrendered quickly, but Germany still had control
The Atlantic Wall
- In France to slow down defenses
D-Day - Operation Overlord (June 6th, 1944)
Battle of the Bulge
- Hitler's Last Offensive
US and Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River (in Germany): April 25th, 1945
- Meet and shake hands
Hitler Commits Suicide
- Just after marrying his long-time girlfriend
- April 30th, 1945
May 8th, 1945 - VE Day

Friday -

Germany

Propaganda
- SS- Secret Police Force
Genocide
- Systematic killing of an ethnic group
- United Nations are bound to punish those who caused/committed a genocide
Who was Interfior according to Hitler?
- Jews
- Gypsies
- Mentally/physcially handicapped
- Soviet, Slavs/POWS/etc.
- Dark skinned people
- POles
- Communists/socialists
- Mixed race
Lebensborn-FOunt of LIfe
- Grogram aimed to promote the growth of the "superior" Aryan populations by providing excellent health care and living conditions to women and by restroicting access to those deemed "fit"
- Houses were set up throughout Germany and many occupied territories
- Many Lebensborn children were born to unweb mothers which helped lead to many rumors of rape
- Contrary to wipespread rumors, women were not forced to have relations with Aryan soldiers
Hitler's Jewish Question -1933
- What should we do with the Jews?
  - Nazis "temporarily" suspend civil liberties for all citizens in 1933-never restored
  - First concentration camp at Dachau in 1933. The first inmates are 200 communists.
  - Jews are prohibited from working as civil servants, doctors working in the National Health Service, teachers in public HS
  - Most Jewish students are banned from public high schools and colleges
  - Nuremburg Laws 1935 - Took away citizenship/they were property rather than people
    - Could not vote, own property, own land, etc.
    - Jews could only marry Jews
    - Established Jews: Had 3 or 4 grandparents that are Jewish, you considered yourself Jewish, and with 1 or 2 grandparents are considered a mixed race
    - No sexual relationships between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
  - 1936 - Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses
  - Kristallnacht 1938 - 91 Jews killed, November 9/10th, the Nazis roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of homes and businesses, etc.
  - 1938 - Cont.
    - All Jewish children expelled from public schools in Germany and Austria
    - Nazis take control of Jewish-owned businesses
  - Hitler's Final Solution
    - Genocide
    - 1939 - Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled in Germany and Austria
    - Jews are required to wear armbands or yellow stars
  - 1940 - Nazis begin deporting out of Germany
    - Forced into Ghettos
    - Nazis begin the first mass murder of Jews in Poland
  - 1941
    - Jews throughout southeastern are forced into ghettos

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