Mr. Bruns' review power point. again.
USSR--drop out of WWI, sign different treaty with germany, dropped out to fight Bulshevic revolution, Lenin wins with comunism(poor rise up and over throw the rich, the government will whither away, classic society takes place)
Italy--Mussolini-invaded more minor countries
Germany--Weimar Republic-failed b/c of depression, hitler going around blaming this government,
Hitler born in Austria, not well off family, might have been part Jewish, abused, hated school, loved art, fought in WWI, did not invent Nazi party but quickly rose through the ranks, tries to overthrow government, put in prison and writes book, in 30's tried to pull the wool over Germany's eyes
took over Denmark and Norway, Belguim and others around, then turns to France, attacked France through belguim, hoped to invade Britain, had to have control of the air, had to destroy airforce, navy, never happened-never had control of the air, eventually only bombed at night, only bombed cities b/c too dark to see and wanted to terrorize people in hopes of surrender that way, German U-boats, invades USSR for living space(Operation Barbarossa) North: starvation blockade in Leningrad, Center: Moscow , South: Stalingrad, not prepared for cold winter,
Japan--island with few resources, all for being part of legue of nations, depression hits and military takes over, invade china for resources, dropped out of league of nations, took over many islands and parts of China(too large, too many people to take over all of it)
USA--not trading with countries at war(neutrality acts), quarantine speech-germany, italy, japan needed to be quarantined, Panay(ship) Incident atacked in china-nothing came of it, Kellogg-Briand Pact(outlawed war in 1927, things changed when the depression hit and Japen invaded China),
France--Maginot Line-underground, railroads(trolleys), hospitals, living quarters, machine guns, problem b/c it stopped, Vichy Governmet-Hitler let stay in power in southern France, Free French Underground-fled to London, Charles De Gaulle, goal was to free France,
treaty of versailles--study other blog
legue of nations--peace keeping organization, US didnt join, no military so it couldnt enforce anything
Nuremburg Laws 1935--made jews second class citizens and removed basic civil rights, being jewish meant anyone who considered themselves jewish or ha three or four grandparents that were jewish(eventually one or two), jews could only marry jews, sent to ghettos
Kristallnacht(the night of broken glass)--Nazi youth broke windows of jewish homes/businesses/synagogues, jews arrested and sent to concentration camps, started sending from ghettos to concentration camps
Munich Conference--Hitler wanted the Sudetenland b/c there were Germans there, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France, agreed to give it to him if he agreed to stop invading countries, he agreed b/c it was what they wanted to hear
Soviet-German non-agression pact--agreed not to fight each other, invade and split Poland, trade(Russia gave raw materials, Germany gave weapons and money), Germany didnt have to worry about fighting a two-sided war
Blitzkrieg(Lightning War)--acheive victory as quickly as possible, airforce->tanks->infantry, troops brought inland-surrounded polish
Nuetrality Acts--will not trade with coutries at war
Lend-Lease Act--US gives ships as long as they get them back at the end of the war
Atlantic Charter--basically not going to make any deals with Nazi Germany
Scorched Earth Policy--Stalin in USSR: burn everything in retreat so Germans cant use it
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