Treaty of Versailles:
- Germans not happy with treaty
- It hurt Germany a lot, lots of pressure on Germany
- Nazis blamed the treaty for all of the problems during WWII
Hitler:
-Beaten by his father
-Sold art on the streets (Vienna, Austria)
-Too weak for Austrian army, went to German army
-Joins Nazi party
-Got in trouble at school a lot
-Made himself Fuhrer of Nazi party
-1923- Beer Hall Putsch: Hitler tried to take over Berlin with Nazi party
-Writes book Mein Kampf while in prison
-One of his biggest goals were to reunite German speaking peoples
-Soviet-German Non Aggression Pact: Russia gave raw materials to Germany who manufactured things and gave some back to Russia
-Hitler takes over Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, France early 1940
Czechoslovakia
Blitzkreig:
-Shock and awe
-To win the battle as fast as possible
Antisemitism- Anti-Jew
Nazi Goals:
-Destroy Royal Air Force(sept. 15, 1940 invasion)
-Destroy British Navy
-Attack British troops
-Would invade Great Britain once air control was gained
-Germany never succeeded in destroying the Royal Air Force
-Great Britain had a very great advantage
-Hitler's 3 Major cities of attack in Soviet Union- Moscow, Stalingrad, Leningrad
-Almost took over Stalingrad, had Leningrad surrounded, outskirts of Moscow taken over
-Russian winter sets in and Germans start freezing and dying
-Winter turns war to Russian favor
Atlantic Wall- Defensive barrier built by German army to slow down Allied invasions
39, 40, 41, 42- Axis powers are winning
End of 42, 43, 44- Ally powers start making progress and pushing forward
-D-day: June 6, 1944
-Hitler's troops were mostly sent to other places because of misinterpretation and media lies
-Allies invade beaches of Normandy, France
-Allies overtake the beaches
-3 months later Paris is liberated
-Battle of bulge was Hitler's last offense
-Russians and US soldiers meet at the Elbe River in Germany April 25, 1945
-Pretty much end of the war
-V-E day May 8, 1945 (Victory in Europe)
-West Germany- democratic after war
-East Germany- communist after war
Mass Killing- killing everybody
Genocide- Targeting a specific ethnic group, race, religion, etc.
Lebensborn- Aryan men with Aryan women having offspring that were pure Aryan
Nuremburg Laws- defined what a jew was
-Jews were not German citizens, second class
-If a grandparent was jewish, deemed jewish
-Jews only allowed to marry jews
Kristallnacht "night of broken glass"- destroying Jewish businesses and churches(synagogues)
-Jewish children expelled from schools
-Nazis take control of Jewish-owned business
-War starts and Hitler makes jews wear star of david
-Jews were being deported to Poland
-Jews forced into ghettos
-Mass murder of Jews begins in 1940
-1942 final solution: plan to kill all Euro Jews
-Jews start fighting back in ghettos in 1943
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