Monday 2nd -
*****GERMANY*****
Treaty of Versailles:
Territorial: Taken from Germany...
Military: reduced to 100,000 men. No tanks, subs, ships, airplanes. allowed only 6 capital naval ships.
Financial: the loss of vital industrial territory would be a severe blow to Germany's economy. Germany had to pay $33 billion to allies (Great Britain/France)
General: Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting the war. Germany forbidden to unite with Austria. League of Nations was set up to keep world peace
Reaction: They weren't happy. Thought the Weimer Republic . Sign treaty or go back to war. Not okay.
Hitler:
Born in 1889
Became leader of Nazi party
Swastika is made the Nazi symbol
Beer Hall Putsch - tried to take it over, got arrested, went to trial, he's his own lawyer. 5 years, got out in 9 months due to good behavior
Mein Kampf - my battle, my struggle, my fight. Hitler's book
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Tuesday 3rd -
Hitler's rise to power: appointed chancellor in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg dies shortly after and Hitler dissolves the Wiemar Republic - ran for president, lost - dropped out of League of Nations, Starts rearming Germany, Rearms German Rhineland Area
Anschluss with Austria - 1938
Munich Conference - Hitler and Neville Chamberlain and Mussolini, Britain and Germany
Meant "Peace for our Time"
Churchill opposed appeasement (giving in and giving what they want so they back off)
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact - 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 western half and the USSR and the eastern half
How they reacted: Shock, Poland was scared, Hitler thought it would force Great Britain and France to back out of their promise to help Poland if they needed help
Nazi Goals - destroy air force (Luftwaffe), Attack and destroy British Navy, Attack British troops
German bombers were so bad that they could only bomb at night
***Countries Hitler Took Over - Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Denmark, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece,***
******************************GERMANY ITALY AND JAPAN ARE AXIS POWERS*************************
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Wednesday 4th -
*******NEVER WAS SO MUCH OWED BY SO MANY TO SO FEW********** THEY SAVED BRITAIN!!!
Axis Invasion of Balkans (Yugoslavia) - 1941
German Invasion of USSR - June 1941
Scorched Earth Policy - Stalin demanded this of the Soviet troops as they retreated.
JUNE 6, 1944 D-DAY!!
The Liberation of Paris: August 25, 1944
Hitler didn't give up. Wasn't easy
Battle of the Bulge
US and Russian Soldiers meet at the Elbe River (in Germany) - April 25, 1945
days later we were major enemies
Hitler commits suicide April 30, 1945. Got married the day before. Honeymoon was a suicide mission - The Fuhrer's Bunker, Cyanide and Pistols
V-E Day (May 8th 1945), war is over - focus turns to Japan
Propaganda is persuasive
Militarism, Imperialism, Nationalism
Holocaust: 6 million Jews, 12 million total. Hitler went after 9 million Jews. 2/3 Jews were killed. Mass killing. Not genocide. genocide focuses on people.
ISRAEL IS WHERE THE JEWS WERE PUT AFTER THE WAR
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Thursday 5th - Took Group Germany Test
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Friday 6th - ***NO SCHOOL***
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