We kept doing notes. And got an assignment on a fun fact about Pearl Harbor and I have to do 1937 Neutrality act.
Aug 39-Soviet-German Non-aggression Pact
- Hitler and Stalin decide to sign this
- One week before invasion of Poland
- 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 the western half and USSR the eastern half
- Russia would get Finland, Estonia and Latvia and Germany would get Lithuania
Sept. 39- Germany/USSR invasion of Poland
- Under a month Poland surrendered
Blitz and Stitz
- Blitzkrieg- Lightning War
- Air-force attacks enemy front-line and rear positions, main roads, airfields and communication centers. At the same time, infantry attacks on the entire front line and engages enemy.
- Tank(panzer) units breakthrough main lines of defense and advance deeper into enemy territory. While following, mechanized units pursue deeper and engage defenders preventing them from establishing defensive positions. Infantry continues to engage enemy for the same reason.
- Sitzkrieg- The Phony War (sitting war)
- After Great Britain and France declared war on Germany nothing happend so people thought it was dumb. Especially since those countries didnt help Poland.
Asix Vs. Allies
- Axis
- Main:
- Germany, Italy, Japn
- Other Powers:
- Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Romania, Thailand, Hungary
- Main:
- Allied Powers
- Main Powers:
- Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, China, France
- Latin America:
- Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile
- Europe:
- Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Poland
- Africa:
- Egypt, Ethiopia
- Asia/other:
- China, India, Iran, Iraq, Mongolia
- Main Powers:
German Invasion of Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg (spring 1940)
- Norway was over water
Invasion of France(may 1940)
- Maginot Line- only Bordered Germany but Germany went around through Belgium
- Miracle of Dunkirk
- After German troops pushed all the France troops into Dunkirk Hitler orders his troops to stop at the town and wait for the tanks to catch up. But instead the France troops sneak out into Great Britain.
- Vichy Gov't(France)
- Led by Marshal Henri Petain
- He did whatever Hitler told him to do
- Led by Marshal Henri Petain
- Free French Underground
- Led by Charles de Gaulle
Battle of Britain(1940-July)
- Hitler tried to make a deal but Winston wouldn't let them so Hitler Attacked
- Royal Air Force (Great Britain) vs Luftwaffe(German)
- Never was so much owed by so many to so few
- Germany was never able to get in control of the air that's how Great Britain won
- Nazi Goals
- Destroy the Royal Air Force (before invasion was possible- hopefully by 9-15)
- Ultra- intercepting of German codes. Great Britain was aided heavily by this!
Japan invades French Indochina(fall 1940)
- Japan could withdraw
- Compromise with the US
- They could attack the US and force US to trade with them (Japan needed oil)
Germany invades USSR (June 1941)
- hated communist
- His idea of Lebensraum
- Blond hair blue eye soldiers with blond hair blue eye girls breeding ground
- Lebensraum-living space for Germans to go live
- known as Operation Barbarossa
- Wanted to take control of Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad
- Never invaded Leningrad just bombed it and surrounded it.
- Leningrad many people died from starvation!!
- Stalingrad was a mistake and they never took it over
- Moscow was invaded but was also not taken either
- Never invaded Leningrad just bombed it and surrounded it.
Pearl harbor and 1937 Neutrality Act
American citizens were forbidden to travel on belligerent vessels, and the President was allowed to sell to belligerents for cash, as long as the belligerents could carry the goods away on their own ships.
Belligerent-A nation or person engaged in war or conflict, as recognized by international law.
Fear of the Spanish Civil War spreading resulted in the Europeans imposing an arms embargo against all sides of the dispute. President Roosevelt asked American arms manufacturers to impose a moral embargo, as legislation then on the books did not provide him with the power to impose an embargo on a country in the midst of a civil war. When this did not work, Roosevelt asked that the law be extended to civil wars, and Congress promptly complied.Liberals who supported the Republican government in Spain were outraged. They claimed that it was not fair to deny the legitimate government the arms that it needed to defend itself, especially since Nazi Germany and Italy continued to support Franco.
Pearl Harbor:
The Japanese specifically chose to attack on a Sunday because they believed Americans would be more relaxed and thus less alert on a weekend. . Twenty-three sets of brothers died aboard the USS Arizona.
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