Monday: Our group started off with the WWII Presentation over Germany.
Tuesday: We finished our presentation over Germany
Wednesday: State Basketball
Thursday: First we talked a bit about Germany.
Friday: Germany
- Remembering from Germany the Treaty of Versailles!!
- German reactions to the treaty of Versailles. Didn't liked it. They had to accepted it.
- Hitler's trail lost
Early actions of Hitler:
- Drops out of the League of Nations
- Starts remaining Germany
- Rearms the German Rhineland area.
Munich Conference
- Great Britain
- Germany
- Italy
- France
Friday: At the beginning we talked about Germany again and some important facts.
- Soviet- German Non- Aggression Pact
After Germany we started talking about Japan.
-Major events that impacted their country between WWI and WWII.
- Joined League of Nations
- Washington Conference of 1921
-Discuss basic facts: alliance, total casualties, total cost, war goals, etc
- Signed alliance with Nazi Germany
- Over 200,000 deaths
-Tell us about their leader(s) during WWII
Hirohito
- born in 1901
- crowned to be emperor in 1916
- traveled to study abroad in Europe
- married in 1924
- Revolting Military
- Surrendered to Allied Forces
- Died 1989
Hideki Tojo
- Born in Tokyo 1884
- Military School
- Studied abroad in Europe
- 1936 he was the Lieutenant general
- 1938 Vice Minister of the War
- 1945 he was token to a Sugamo prison
- took responsibility
- sentenced carried in 1948
-Discuss the impact of their Homefront and propaganda and what it was like in their country during the war
- Only victories in the newspaper
-Discuss major battle strategies
- Invasion of China 1937
- Tojo Military Field Code (1941)
-Discuss major battles that the country was involved in
- Pearl Harbor
- December 7th 1941 in Honolulu
- Japanese fighter planes attacked the naval base
- Japanese destroyed 20 American naval vessels, eight enormous battleships, more than 300 airplanes
- More than 2000 American soldiers and sailors died
- Japan won
- Battle of Singapore
- February 8th 1942
- Japanese launched attack on British
- Arthur Percival expected the Attack
Japanese decided to pass trough the jungle
- 7 days commonwealth forces surrendered
- 60,000 prisoners of war
- Japan won
- Battle of Midway (important)
- June 3rd 1942
- US and Japan
- wanted to take away Midway
- Last american base in the Pacific
- Expand Japanese defensive zone
- Yamamoto waited for american to approach midway
- finish of Americans once for all.
- US won
- Battle of Guadalcanal
- August 7th 1942
- Series of battles fought on land and sea
- Allied forces
- Japanese lost
- The allies suffered heavy losses as well
- Route between US and Australia was secure from then on
- Battle of Iwo Jima
- One famous battles of Pacific War
- February 19th - March 26th 1945
- US Marines invaded after months of naval and air bombardment
- The flag raising
- 5 days after the battle began
- 5 marines
- 27 Medals of Honor were awarded on Iwo Jima
-Discuss other people/generals from their country in WWII that had a major impact on the war
-Discuss why they won or lost the war
- Lack of food supplies
- Atomic bombs killed a lot of people
- couldn't be self reliant
- attack pearl harbor
-Discuss the impact WWII had on the country
- Japan was devastated
- Industries and transportation networks were severely damaged
- Severe shortage of food continued
- Japan basically lost all the land they acquired.
- The Allies occupy Japan
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