- Germany
- Hitler
- Appointed Chancellor in 1933
- President Paul von Hindenburg dies shortly after and Hitler dissolves the Weimar 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.
- What countries did Hitler invade and take over in 1940 (spring and early summer)?
- 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.
- 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
- 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)
- 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
Comments
Good but you missed the week of March 21-25.