March 14-18

Monday- germany notes

Tuesday- germany notes

Wednesday- germany notes

Thursday- germany notes

Friday- japan notes

Notes:

  • germany
    • treaty of versailles
      • anger throughout germany
      • forced
    • hitler
      • appointed chancellor
      • struggled in school
      • leader of nazi party
      • attempted to overthrough gov
        • prison for 5 years
          • served 9 months
            • wrote mein kampf
      • took over austria
      • drops out of league of nations
      • rearms germany
      • munich conference
        • appeasement
          • hitler gets sudentenland
          • hitler said he wouldn't take over any more territorieschurchill opposed appeasement
            • he lied
      • hitler takes over czechoslovakia 
      • non-agression pact
        • soviets and germans agreed not to attack
        • russia gave raw materials to germany in exchange for money and weapons
        • agreed to stay neuteal if other entered war
    • how the world reacted to poland being attacked
      • poland was scared
      • world was shocked 
      • hitler though it would force great britian and france to back out of promise
        • they attacked
    • blitzkrieg-lightening video
      • airforce attacks enemy at
        • frontline and rear positions
        • roads
        • airfeilds
        • communication
      • tanks attack
        • mainlines of defense
        • advance deeper into enemy territory
      • infantry invades from germany into poland
    •  sitzkreig
      • sitting war
      • phony war
    • battle of britian
      • nazi goals of battle of britian
        • destroy royal airforce
        • attack british navy
        • attack troops
        • once germany was in control of air, invasion would begin
        • germany never succeeded in destroying royal airfoce
          • german bombers did poorly
          • great britian had good radar and ultra
      • results
        • germany decided to focus on attacking british shops and ports and thus stopped attacking cities
        • british losses
          • 40,000 civilians
          • 46,000-139,000 injured
        • german losses
          • 3,363 air
    • german invasion of ussr
      • operation barbarossa
        • code name for invasion of soviet union
      • hitler thought that if he got 3 certain cities, they would win
        • stalingrad
          • around 2 million casualties 
        • leningrad
          • germans took leningrads railroads
            • they were cut off from the rest of russia
          • germans surrounded city to starve people into submission
            • 641,000 people died of starvation in a year
          • eventually germanys  resources became drained and soviets gained control
        • moscow
          • russian winter sets in and make is a huge turning point
          • germany never got moscow
      • scortched earth policyrussian winter was very hard on germans?
        • destroy everything as you pass so enemy can't use it
    • north africa campaign
      • lasted 3 yrs
      • fought mainly in dessert 
        • liberia/algeria area
    • operation torch/italian camaignbattle of sicily
      • invasion of italy
      • george patton leads americans
      • germans trapped in tunisia
        • surrendered 275,000 troops
    • allies liberate rome
    • D-day
      • operation overlord
      • stands for day of days
      • germany started to develop atlantic wall throughout wwii
        • guard against  an allied invasion if europe
          • hitler ordered laying of mines/barbed wire
          • stretch from france to norway
      • us british candaian invasion of francewe tricked hitler with balloons shaped like tanks/airplanes that we were going to invade one way, but ended up going the other
        •  we took over our ally (france) because germany had taken control of france
    • several attempts to kill hitler
      • he didn't think clearly
      • had parkinsons disease
    • liberation of paris
      • paris was freed around 2 months after d-day
    • battle of the bulge
      • nazis launch massive offensive against us
        • goal to get to sea
        • circle back around capture troops
        • take back territory
    • soviets and US meet at elbe river in germany
      • soon become enemies
    • hitler commits suicide
      • married day before
      • both committed suicide
        • cyanide
        • pistols
    • ve-day
      • victory day for europe
      • may 8, 1945
    • holocaust
      • genocide of about 6 million jews
        • 2/3=66%
      • a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by nazi germany
      • total holacaust victims were about 11-17 million
        • jews
        • gypsies
          • prefer to be called roma
          • came from asia
          • stole
        • handicappedsoviet/slavs/POWs/troops
          • mentally
          • disabled
        • poles
          • poland people
        • homosexuals
        • communists/socialists
        • dark skined 
          • africans
        • mixed races
        • jehovahs witnesses
      • what is aryan race
        • blonde, blue eyed, tall and muscular
    • lebensborn- fount of life
      • perfect german women were to have relations with other perfect german men
      • it was to make the most "perfect" children
    • hitlers jewish question
      • what to do with them
        • temporarily suspends civil liberities for all citizens
        • 1st concentration camp
          • slave labor
          • 200 communists
            • communists were to blame for reichstag building
        • jews lost influential jobs
          • doctor
          • teachers
      • nuremburg laws - 1st major laws to seperate jews
        • took away german citizenship
          • jews were then 2nd class
        • established membership in jewish race as being anyone who considered themselves jewish or had 3-4 german grandparentsjews only marry jews
          • if 1/4th jewish, considered a jew
        • no relations between non-jewish germans and jews
      • 1936
        • Nazis boycott jewish owned businesses
      • 1938
        • kristallnacht-night of broken glassall jewish children are expelled from public schools
          • nazis burned/stole from/broke churches/homes/businesses
          • 101 synogauges were destroyed
          • 7,500 jewish businesses destroyed
          • 26,000 jews arrested and sent to concentration camps
          • jews were beaten and physically attacked
            • 91 died
        • nazis take control of jewish owned businesse
    • genocide
      • any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in a whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group
        • killing members of the group
        • causing serious bodily or mental harm to member of the group
        • deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
      • imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
      • forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
  • j
    • 1939
      • hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled 
      • jews are required to wear armbands or yellow stars
    • 1940
      • nazis begin deporting german jew into poland
      • jews are forced into ghettos
      • nazis begin 1st mass murder of jews in poland
    • 1941
      • jews throughout eastern europe are forced into ghettos
      • in 2 days, german units shoor 33,771 ukraininan jews
    • 1942
      • hitlers solution announced
      • 5 deth camps begin operation in polandghettos of eastern wuroe are being emptied as thousands of jews are shipped to death camps
        • mjdanek
        • sobibor
        • treblinka
        • belzec 
        • auschwitz-birkenau
      • US, great britian, and soviet union acknowledge that germans are exterminating the jews of europe
    • 1943 1944
      • jews in warsaw ghetto resist against nazis
        • end up holding out for another month
      • hitler takes ober hungary
        • deports more jews to auschwitz 
          • 12,000 at a time
    • 1945
      • hitler is defeated in WWII
      • holocaust is ober and death camps are found and emptied
      • many survivors are placed in displaced people camps until they find a country willing to accept them
        • many went to israel
    • 1947
      • the united nations establishes a jewish homeland in british controlled palestine, which becomes the state of israel in 1948
  • JAPAN
    • controlled many territories
      • French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos)
      • Hong Kong (UK) - December 12, 1940 - August 15, 1945
      • Thailand- as an 'allied' state although induced - December 8, 1941 -
      • British New Guinea - December 27, 1941 - September 15, 1945
      • Philippines (USA) - January 2, 1942 - November 27, 1944
      • Guam (USA) - January 6, 1942 - October 24, 1945
      • Dutch East Indies - January 18, 1942 - October 21, 1945
      • Portuguese Timor - February 19, 1942 - September 2, 1945
      • Malaya (UK)- March 27, 1942 - September 6, 1945
      • Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India) - March 29, 1942 - September 9, 1945
      • Straits Settlements (Singapore) - March 29, 1942 - September 9, 1945
      • Kingdom of Sarawak (UK) - March 29, 1942 - September 9, 1945
      • Brunei (UK) - March 29, 1942 - September 9, 1945
      • North Borneo (UK) - March 29, 1942 - September 9, 1945
      • Nauru - August 26, 1942 - September 13, 1945
      • Imphal (India) - November 4, 1942 - August 15, 1945
      • Wake Island (USA) - December 27, 1942 - January 18, 1944
      • Gilbert and Ellice Islands (UK) - February 22, 1943 - January 22, 1944
      • Christmas island (Australia) - May 5, 1943 - January 25, 1944
      • Attu and Kiska Islands (Alaska) - June 6, 1943 - September 27, 1943
    • attacked but didnt get
      • Air raids on Australia:
        • Broome (Western Australia)
        • Darwin (Northern Territory, Australia)
        • Newcastle (New South Wales, Australia)
        • Sydney (New South Wales, Australia)
      • British Columbia (Canada)
      • Kohima and Manipur (India)
      • Colombo and Trincomalee (Sri Lanka)
      • Dornod (Khalkhin Gol, Mongolia)
      • United States
        • Santa Barbara (California)
        • Pearl Harbor (Hawaii)
        • Midway Atoll
        • Fort Stevens (Oregon)
    • japan in 1920s
      • joined league of nations
      • signed the 4, 5, and 9 power pacts
        • 4 Power Pact-US, GB, France and Japan would respect each other’s possessions in the Pacific
        • 5 Power Pact-US, GB, France, Italy and Japan would limit naval size
        • 9 Power Pact-US, GB, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal and China agree to the Open Door Policy and guarantee Chinese independence
      • Signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact
    • invasion of manchuria
      • league of nations condemned the action
        • couldn't enforce
          • had no military
      • message sent to aggressive countries was that major power could get away with using force because great britian and france didn't want to go into war
      • japan dropped out of league of nations after invasion
    • china was to japan as soviet was to germany
    • rape on nanking
      • mass killing of chinese
        • up to 300,000
      • mass raping of chinese women/girls
      • mass looting/arson
      • some in japan deny that the military killed civilians for no reason
      • still causes tension between them
      • war crimes trial after the war 
        • tried japanese for participation
    • 1940
      • joins axis powers
      • slice up world agains stalin hitler and tojo
    • ussr and japa signed an agreement not to fight one another
      • japan considered breaking but didnt
      • ussr broke treaty in 1945
    • road to peral harbor
      • japanese leaders
        • tojo and hirohito 
        • yamanoto came up with idea 
      • why
        • wanted to force US out of war
          • even though we werent in war right now
        • hapan signed soviet-japan neutrality pact in 1941 guarenteeing japan and ussr wouldn't go to war
        • japan realized they needed our trade
        • thought they needed to suprise us to force us to not join
        • japan thought this was the only way to defeat us
      • plan backfired
      • ended up in stale mate, japan didn't win so we said we won
    • midway was a huge turning point
    • kamikazes
      • fought to death
      • filled planes with explosives
      • crash into us ships hopefully (for them) sinking it
    • us recaptures phillipines
    • iwo jima-1945
      • rose flag on mt suribachi
      • really close to japan
    • battle of okinawa- 1945
      • 1st island of japan
    • preparing for invasion
      • operation downfall -code name
        • didn't happen
          • we used atomic bombs
    • VJ-day
      • japan officially signed surrender on USS missouri
      • victory in japan day
    • postdam conference
      • announced terms for japans surrender
        • dismantle the current government
        • allies would militarily take over japan
        • lose all territory they gained in wwii
          • kept their islands
        • japanese military forces will be disarmed and allowed to return home
        • there will be war crime trials committed by japan
        • democracy will be promoted as well as freedom of speech, religion, and of thought and respect for fundamental human rights
        • japan will be allowed to have industry so they can make money to pay for rearations.
          • world trade will also ben enabled at some point
        • allied occupation of japan will end once japan accomplishes all of the above
    • wwii format test
      • ask 1 person and their answers are worth a total of 5 
        • if they ask 1 question worth 5, 2 total of 5, 3 total of 5
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