Computer issues still. but less than the past two days.
missed a couple slides while trying to get logged on. but it was just recap about the invasion of france and alliances and treaties and neutrality stuff.
The Atlantic Charter:
No territorial gain; No territorial changes without the peoples support from those countries; missed it.
German Invasion of USSR:
Final plan for Operation Barbarossa. germany thought they could get the soviet union under nazi control in 6-9 months. england was the "last one standing", so hitler turned his attention to the east. he wanted to achieve levensbron(sp?) "living space".
Hitler's attack on lenengrod was to surround it and starve the people into submission; they laid seige to the city and bombarded it as well.
Cannibalism horror movie tangent.
Hitler almost made it to Moscow. Nazis took over 90% of Stalingrad. Blitzkrieg. But as the soviets retreat, they use the scorched earth policy. as they retreated, they burnt down and/or destroyed everything that could possibly be of use to the Nazis. soviets were massive trading partners with germany, so when germany attackted, they knew they had to win russia in at most a year, or they would be in trouble supply-wise.
So, Hitler is really close to taking over those 3 cities (lenengrod, stalingrod, moscow). Turning point? The winter (1941/42). russians were used to it, but the germans were unprepared. and its hard to get supplies over a long distance. and morale went down. so the soviets started pushing back against the germans and they slowly pushed them back.
Japan's invesion of China.
Another example of biting off more than they could chew. when it looked like they were maybe not doing so hot, they had a couple choices: go back to japan and be happy with what they conquered of chine; completely dominate china; ask for help. they wanted to completely dominate, so they combined option 2 and 3. they asked us for help, but we told them to stop attacking china, and even give back what they had already conquered. so they decided that in order to get us to trade with them, they were gonna attack us. their logic? since we're so isolationist, we'll want to avoid going to war and give in to their trading demands. we dont understand that.
so. Tojo wanted to attack us, emporer hirohito okayed it, and admiral yamamoto came up with the plan. But yamamoto (who went to college in the us) advised against it, comparing us to a "sleeping giant". so. they bombed pearl harbor; 2 waves, they canceled the 3rd one cuz they thought they had done enough damage. they bombed tons of boats and planes.
they caught us off gaurd. we didnt expect an attack, especially from japan, especially on pearl harbor.
btw, they actually attacked more places than just pearl harbor. they attacked a us base in the phillipines and a few other islands as well.
actually, we thought that if there would be any attack, it would be sabotage. like maybe a japanese dude would sneak onto a boat a plant a bomb. so. in any case. japan shouldnt have canceled that 3rd wave, cuz they didnt do enough damage to our ships. many of them were able to be repaired. plus, our plane carrier ships were out at sea, so they did not succeedd in handicapping us that way. Their plan totally backfired. They woke the "sleeping giant" and we declared war on them the next day (december 8th).
this year was the 70th anniversary of pearl harbor.
Conspiracy! sidetracked and i missed it.
Test on Monday. study? probably.
Houston Oilers...i dont like that song.
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