What were the causes of WW2?
What impact did the U.S. have on WW2?
Why did the Allies win WW2?
Notes:
1918-WW1 ended
1919-treaty of Versailles
1920's-peace
1930-Great Depression starts
1931-Japan invades Manchuria
1933-Hitler comes to power in Germany
1937-Japan invades China
1939-WW2
- Invasion of Poland-1939-germans wanted to get all of their land back and punish everyone. The polish had a ton of casualties. The beginning of the war-all of prison camps set up in Poland. The soviet union invaded Poland because they were kind of allies with Germany and they had lost land as well. Germany eventually attacks soviet union (stalin) so they became our allies.
- Italy declares war on Britain-Britain declared war after the invasion of Poland. Italy was interested in land so they joined Germany.
- Pearl Harbor- Air-force base. This was a bombing attack from the Japanese. We declared war the day after. Dec. 7th, 1941
- Gas Chambers/ Concentration camps-worked people to death or put people in gas chambers. threw bodies in ditches
- Germany invades Russia-Stalingrad)-between Russians and Nazis. summer of 1941. major turning point in the war, Nazis lost. turned on his some what ally the soviet union/Russia. bloodiest battle in world history-lasted 5 months-lost more people in this battle than the whole war. 2 million. slowly pushed the Germans back.
- Invasion of Normandy (D-day)-U.S ,Britain, France, Canada, invaded Normandy-northern France. June 6, 1944-beinning of the end of Hitler's control over Europe.
- Yalta Conference- Stalin, Churchill, FDR-discussed how to get back Europe, bring back Poland, get rid of Nazis in Germany.
- Hiroshima-US told Japan to back out of the war, they didn't respond. We threatened them and bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Nuclear bomb-one bomb that incinerates everything in its path in a wide range.
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