April 4th- 8th

Monday- Germany continued presenting

Mr. Bruns continued with Germany

Germany WWII

Treaty of Versailles
- Germany lost land from
  - France
  - Belgium
  - Denmark
  - Czechoslovakia
  - Poland
- Military
  - No:
    - Air force
    - Tanks
    - Demilitarize Rhineland
- Financial
  - Pay 33 Billion
  - Loss of Industry
- General
  - League of nations set up
  - Germany had to admit full responsibility for the war
- Dolchstoss Theory
  - Stab in the back
  - Germany could have won the war
  - Jews accepted treaty of Versailles
Weimar Rebublic
- President
  - Elected every 7 years
  - President appoints
    - Chancellor (head of government)
Hitler
- Born in Austria
  - abused by father
- Lonely,Artist
  - Failed entrance into Vienna Art school
- Joined German Military
- Going to Nazi party meetings
- Becomes Fuhrer
Swastika
- Used in India and Egypt
- Sign of peace and love
Hitler's Trial
- Put to Trial for Beer Hall Putsch
- given 5 years
  - only served 9 months for good behavior
Hitler in Prison
- Wrote Mein Kamph

Tuesday- Mr. Bruns continued presenting on Germany

Rise to Power
- Appointed Chancellor
  - Drops out of League of Nations
  - Starts rearming Germany
    - Rhineland
- Anschluss with Austria
  - Annexes
    - Unites Germany with Austria
    - Czechoslovakia is in trouble
      - Sudetenland
        Part of Czechoslovakia
        Many German people
    - Munich Conference
      - Discussion about giving part of Czechoslovakia
      - Given Sudetenland
      - Hitler promised that he was done taking over lands
      - "policy of Appeasement
        GB wanted to make Hitler happy
      - Churchill opposed appeasement
    - Hitler takes over the rest of Czechoslovakia
      - Powers allow him to
      - Say they will stop him the next time he does something
    - Soviet- German Non- Aggression pact
      - Russia gave materials to Germany in exchange for weaponry
      - Both agreed for neutrality
      - Secretly agreed to invade Poland
      - Russia would get
        Finland
        Estonia
        Latvia
      - Germany would get
        Lithuania
      - World was
        Shocked
        Scared
        Hitler thought it would force GB to back out of their promise
    - Germany invades Poland
      - Easy victory
Germany invades Poland
- Poland Surrenders
- "Sitzkrieg"
- Germany invaded 1939- 1940
  - Denmark
  - Netherlands
  - Belgium
  - France
    - Attacked through Belgium
    - Miracle of Dunkirk
      - French are pushed to Dunkirk
      - Germans ordered to stop
      - Allowed British and French soldiers to evacuate
    - Germany invades France
      - France Surrenders
  - Luxembourg
  - Norway
  - Czechoslovakia
  - Poland
France Surrenders
- Vichy France
  - Henry Petain
  - Fought with Hitler
- The French Resistance
  - Tried to thwart the Nazi party
Axis Invasion of the Balkans
- Invasion of Southern Europe

Wednesday- Career Fair/ No classes

Thursday- I was gone. I got notes from Kara Rueschenberg

Friday-

Germany in WWII (continued)

Battle of Britain (continued from Tuesday)

- Results
  - In May, 1941, Germany decided to focus on attacking British ships and ports and thus stopped attacking cities
  - British losses
    - around 40,000 civilians dead
    - 46,000-139,000 injured
  - German losses
    - 3,363 aircrew
    - 2,265 aircraft
  - Britain won by the fact that Germany did not achieve their goals
German Invasion of USSR
- June, 1941
- Operation Barbarossa
- Germany went after three major cities: Stalingrad, Leningrad, and Moscow
Scorched Earth Policy
- Burned everything as they retreated
- Reason for this was so Germans couldn't take advantage of it
- Stalin demanded this of the Soviet troops as they retreated
Battle for Moscow
- The Soviet Winter Counteroffensive
- December 6, 1941- April 30, 1942
- The Russian winter sets in and makes this a huge turning point in the war
Battle of Stalingrad
- Winter of 1942-1943
- Around two million total casualties
- Worst battle in history (as far as death)
- Stalin told people to not retreat
Siege of Leningrad
- On August 30th 1941, the German took over Leningrad's railroads, cutting them off from the rest of Russia and the world
- Unlike the Battle of Stalingrad, the Germans surrounded the city to starve the city into submission
- Between November 1941 and October 1942, 641,000 people died of starvation
- People resorted to eating rats, wallpaper paste, and some resorted to cannibalism
- Finally, a successful Russian counter-offensive at Stalingrad drained necessary resources the Germans needed to continue the blockade and eventually it failed
- The Germans never took Leningrad, but it was one of the most costly conflicts Russia had ever faced
- Over one million dead
The North Africa Campaign
- June 1940- May 1943
- Operation Torch
- General Bernard Montgomery ("Monty")
- General Erwin Rommel (The "Desert Fox"
- North Africa is where the US first fought against Germany and Italy
The Italian Campaign
- Operation Avalanche
- Europe's "Soft Underbelly"
- Allies plan assault on weakest Axis area
  - North Africa- November 1942-May 1943
- George S. Patton leads American troops
- Germans trapped in Tunisia- surrender over 275,000 troops
The Battle for Sicily
- June, 1943
- General Patton
The Battle of Monte Casino
- February, 1944
The Allies Liberate Rome
- June 5, 1944
The Atlantic Wall
- Adolf Hitler ordered the laying of millions of mines and miles of barbed wire and poured tons of concrete to create a defensive barrier along the western coast of Europe
- The plan was a sham because the Germans didn't know exactly where an invasion would occur
- Yet it cost many Allied soldiers their lives to secure the beaches of Normandy
D-Day
- June 6, 1944
- General Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day ("Operation Overlord")
Normandy Landing
- June 6, 1944
Assassination Plot
- June 20, 1944
- Many people thought Hitler was crazy and he was making very stupid military decisions
- There was going to be a meeting in a bunker and there was a briefcase planted with a bomb in it
- The bomb went off and many people thought Hitler was dead
- However, Hitler didn't die and he became more paranoid after this
The Liberation of Paris
- August 25, 1944
The Battle of the Bulge
- Hitler's Last Offensive
- December 16, 1944 to January 28, 1945
- Worst battle for US losses in the war
US and Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River in Germany
- April 25, 1945
Hitler Commits Suicide
- April 30, 1945
V-E Day
- May 8, 1945

Friday-

WWII

Germany

Propaganda
- Usually involved Hitler
  - kissing children
The Holocaust
- 9 million Jews in Europe
  - 6 million killed
  - 12 million all around
- Genocide
  - Intent to destroy in whole or part of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as;
    - Killing the members
    - Causing harm
    - Prevention of births
    - Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
  - Member countries must "undertake to prevent and punish"
- Who was inferior according to Hitler?
  - Jews
    - 6 million
  - Gypsies
    - 1 million
  - Jehovah's witness
    - 2,500
  - Handicapped
    - 250,000
  - Homosexuals
    - 5-15 thousand
  - Mixed races
  - Soviets
    - 16.5 million
- Aryan Race
  - Blonde hair
  - Blue eyes
  - tall
  - Muscular
- Lebensborn
  - Hitler's guess that there would be too many people for Germany
  - They would have to move East
  - "Breeding Homes"
    - Tried to get blond hair blue eyed women
      - Have children
    - Rumors of rape
    - Women were not forced to have relations with the Aryan Germans
- Hitler's Jewish Question
  - What should we do with them?
    - Hitler temporarily suspends civil liberties for all German citizens
      - 1933
    - Nazis set up the first concentration camp
      - 1933
    - Jews are prohibited from working as civil servants
      - Doctors
      - High school teachers
      - Government officials
    - Jewish students are banned from high school and college
  - Nuremberg Laws-1935
    - Took away citizenship from Jews
    - Could only marry Jews
    - No sexual relations between Non- Jewish and Jewish
    - If you have 3/4 of your grandparents who are Jewish, but do not consider yourself Jewish, you are still considered it
  - 1936
    - Nazis boycott Jewish- owned businesses
  - 1938
    - "night of broken glass"
    - November 9 and 10th
    - Destroyed Jewish
      - Homes
      - Businesses
      - Synagogues
    - Sent Jews to Concentration camps
    - Jews were physically attacked
  - 1938
    - Jewish children are expelled form public schools
    - Nazis take control of Jewish- owned businesses
  - 1939
    - Hitler orders murder of mentally and physically disabled
    - Jews are required to wear armbands
  - 1940
    - Deporting them out of Germany
    - Jews are forced into ghettos
    - Begin to mass murder the Jews in Poland
  - 1941
    - Jews are forced into ghettos
    - Germans shoot 33,771 Ukrainian
- Death Camps
  - Auschwitz
    - Starved to death
    - Crematorium
    - Split of families

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