March 6, 2013

Today, we are reviewing for the quiz that is tomorrow. The quiz is about the WW2 leaders, and the 1930's topics.

Benito Mussolini

  • killed
  • signed the aggression pact
  • invaded Ethiopia

Hitler

  • suicide
  • known for the Holocaust and the mass killing of over 6 million Jews
  • invaded Poland
  • Took over Austria

Tojo

  • hung
  • known for ordering Pearl Harbor
  • allowed soldiers to be mean to Chinese people POW's
  • Rape of Nanking

Hirohito

  • died in 1989 from old age
  • didn't really do anything
  • had to surrender unconditionally= completely surrender
  • getting on the radio for the first time

Churchill

  • lost an election
  • known for his speeches
  • we will never surrender speech
  • being a statesman

FDR

  • died during 4th term
  • declared war after Pearl Harbor on Japan
  • believed in the atomic bomb
  • try and keep us out of the war

Stalin

  • died in 1953 of a stroke
  • killed anybody he didn't like
  • signed the non aggression pact with Germany
  • Germany invaded the USSR
  • biggest battles of WW2
  • USSR had to stop the Blitzkrieg attack
  • USSR went to Berlin and took Berlin

Invasion of Manchuria:

  • Japan invaded Manchuria, China
  • invaded for resources from the Great Depression

Italy invaded Ethiopia:

  • agreement not to trade with each other
  • Ethiopia lost
  • Italy lost the first war
  • embarrassed Italy for the loss

Spanish Civil War:

  • Francisco Franco won the war
  • took the attention off of Hitler so he could take over
  • Hitler to test weapons and practice for the military

Rome- Berlin Axis:

  • established the official alliance between Berlin and Rome

Japan invades China:

  • invades the rest of China
  • Japanese were awful to China
  • China was to big of a challenge and a lot of resources
  • USSR is to Germany as China is to Japan

Munich Conference:

  • city in Germany
  • Hitler wanted to take over the Sudetenland
  • Czech. border of Germany
  • Germany lost a lot of land
  • Hitler wanted the land back
  • Conference GB, Germany, Italy, France
  • Promised to not take over any more land
  • gave it to Hitler
  • Policy of Appeasement
  • Appease Hitler and give him what he wanted

Austrian Anchluss:

  • Hitler took over Austria
  • Country by Germany
  • Anchluss= Union
  • WW1 Austria asked to be part of Germany
  • Annexed Austria with Germany
  • Hitler then took over the rest of Czech

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