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Swastika was originally a piece sign
the axis powers were Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, France, Hungary, Croatia, Finland, Manchu.
started with the treaty of Versailles took a lot of land away from Germany and Russia
France, Belgium, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Poland, all got German land
Germany's army was reduced to 100,000 men, they were not allowed to have tanks, or air force, to subs and low ships, the Rhineland was German land taken away and given to France and they kept troops there to protect from Germany.
they took Germany's land that has their coal and oil and made them pay $33 billion.
After world war one the league of nations was set up to try to keep world piece but the U.S. never signed the treaty or joined the league.
Germany hated the treaty and it was forced on them and they had no say in it it was either sign the treaty or go back to war.
the Nazis believed in the stab in the back theory said that the government chose to end the war and it was their fault that Germany went into depression.
Hitler was born in Austria in 1989 and 3/5 of his siblings died, his father would beat Hitler, when his brother died Adolf became more moody, then his dad and om died within a few years before he was 18 and had a huge negative impact on him.
when he was about 16 he moved to Vienna and tried to get into the art school but they told him he wasn't good enough to be in it.
he also tried to join the Austrian army but they would not let him in that either because he wasn't physical enough so he joined the German army.
Hitler was wounded twice in WWI and was temporarily blinded and was almost shot but the guy didn't shoot him he stopped.
Hitler was a spy for the Army after the war and he was spying on the Nazis but he liked their ideas so he joined them.
Hitler was thrown in jail and Hitler was his own lawyer and he was such a strong speaker that the trial actually helped him.
The president of Germany appointed Hitler because they thought they could control him but he ended up taking over and killing all his opponents and burning a building down to rule by decree.
He rebuilt the German military and invades the Rhineland and there was no fight against him so he felt invincible.
Hitler-Germany, Chamberlain-Britain, Mussolini-Italy, Daladier-France.
Hitler bullied Czech and and Austria into giving their land to him
August 1939 Stalin and Hitler signed a non aggression pact and soviet union gave resources to Hitler in exchange for guns and weapons if they stayed neutral.
They agreed to invade Poland and split it evenly neither of them liked each other or trusted each other
Hitler thought GB and France would back down but they didn't
Hitler used Blitzkrieg - Lighting tactic
Hitler takes over Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, lexingburg, and France in just 3 months in 1940
The french built the Maginot line that was "impenetrable" but the Germans just went around the line and trapped them then they surrendered
WWII had two Frances there was the Vichy France that was the southern France and was allies with Hitler
The other France we were friends with were the free french underground and they were based in great Britain
Tripartite pact finalized the axis powers
Nazis goals for the battle of Britain-they wanted to try to take out as many Royal Air Force as possible and they wanted to weaken the navy, They attacked troops to weaken the military
Germany never did the invasion and German bombers started to bomb at night and just destroying the cities and the Germans were detected by radar and Ultra and it was the code name for intercepting code of the enemies so we knew what they were doing.
Hitler decided to focus on attacking soldier instead of civilians, Britain won the battle
German invasion of the soviet union was the largest land invasion in history , he wanted the Ukraine because it had good farm land
Russia retreated and let them come in then kept leading them in and burnt all their resources so the Germans cant get them until winter set in
Battle for Moscow, winter sets in so they launch a counter offensive against Germany
Battle of Stalingrad over 1,000,000 men on both sides were fighting, 11,000 dies every day on average
Battle of Leningrad was the first major city hit, Germany surrounded the city and bombed the city, 641 people died of starvation in a year
People ate rats, wallpaper paste, and even resorted to cannibalism.
Stalingrad ended the siege because they needed more troops in Stalingrad, they never tool Leningrad but it was one of the most costly battles.
Montgomery and Rommel were the main generals in the war in Africa, The U.S. gets involved in 1942 in Africa
The war in North Africa was over in just 7 months so the campaign shifted to the Mediterranean sea and Italy.
We launched a massive invasion in Italy so they surrender but the Germans help most of the country
D-Day happened June 6, 1944 Germany had a wall of defenses built up on the beaches of the Atlantic
Hitler launches massive offensive at the battle of the bulge but Germany lost the battle
Russian and American troop faught and met in the middle at a river in Germany
Hitler killed himself and his wife the same day they got married
The holocaust - Germany killed 2/3 or 6 million out of 9 million Jews in the world - its was systematic and state sponsored
The total number of people killed was 11-17 million
Genocide means to destroy, kill, or cause serous harm to, not letting them have kids, and separated kids from a specific group completely
Aryan Race - Blonde hair, blue eyes, tall, and muscular, But mainly German people
Lebensborn - fount of life, Germany got the perfect girls to breed with the perfect guys so that the Aryan race could spread
in 1933 - He suspended all civil liberties - set up first camps and put communists in them - made Jews no longer able to go to school
1935 - Nuremburg laws - Jews were no longer citizens, They said if you had 1/4 Jewish blood then u were Jewish and would be targeted, Jews weren't allowed to have relations with Germans
1936 - Nazis boycott Jewish businesses so they run out of money
1938 - Night of the broken glass - The SS troops went into Jewish parts and broke Jewish businesses, houses, and synagogues and burnt them., all Jewish school students were kicked out of school and Nazis took over there companies.
1939 - Hitler ordered the killing of disables people and required Jews to wear the arm bands with their symbol
1940 - Nazis deport Jews to Poland, Jews are forced into ghettos, Nazis begin the first mass murder of Jews.
1941 - More camps and the largest massacre - Ukrainian Jews killed in two days 33,771
1942 - Hitler decided since he is loosing the war to kill every single Jew and started up mass mass killing of Jews
1943 - Jews up rise for a month before the Nazis put it to an end and kill them.
1944 - Takes over Hungary and sends more Jews to Auschwitz
1945 - Hitler is defeated and death camps freed
U.S. set up displaced person camps that fed Jews to get them healthy again so they could return to normal life
Mussolini was the leader of Italy
Washington Naval Conference - 5 power pact - wanted to Prevent a naval arms race, Limited the battle ship build up and this did not restrict Cruisers, Destroyers, or submarines so they built them.
9 Power fact - Granted Chinese independence and upheld the open door policy, Italy GB France and Us were the main ones in this.
Kellogg-Braind Pact - This Act outlawed war but it did not last
Mussolini Marches on Roam and the king gave him the government and he was in control after that - The king wanted to stop communism and civil war so allowed Mussolini to be the leader.
Lateran accords were signed - The church got money, land, schools were forced to teach religion, and they got power
Fascism - Government lead by a strong dictator, Nationalism and Militarism, uses intimidation to get what they want,
Ethiopia was invaded because Ethiopia was taken from Italy in 1896.
After the invasion of Ethiopia we put an embargo so that Italy would run out of money and drop out.
Hitler helped Francisco Franco come to power in Spain and considered him an Allie
Italy lost because they had a wear army, Germany had to save Italy many times, The people didn't want to fight they wanted the war to be over already.
410,000 Italians died and they spent $94 billion sent and they ended up becoming our allies They became a member of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) said that if people attack them then we will help to try to stop a big war fast.

Japan - took over parts of china, Philippines, Thailand, Guam, Malaya
They attacked the U.S and British Columbia
In the 1920's japan defeated Russia and built their navy after the British navy and their army after the German one.

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