Discussed quiz tomorrow over WWII leaders and 1930s topics up until 1938. Need to be able to identify the leader, their country, and what alliance they were part of by a picture of them, what are a few things they did during WWII for their country or what are they known for, and how did they lose power.
Loss of power, something they did in WWII:
Mussolini- was killed; signed the Rome-Berlin acts with Germany, invaded Ethiopia
Hitler- committed suicide; killed 12 million people, half in the Holocaust, declared war on the US, invaded GB, France, Poland, Soviet Union, etc.
Tojo- was hanged; known for ordering the attack on Pearl Harbor, allowed his soldiers to be absolutely ruthless to POWs, allowed the Rape of Nanking
Hirohito- died of old age and had to admit he wasn't a god to the Japanese people after WWII; he was the one who surrendered unconditionally and the only one who had the power to do that
Churchill- lost an election; known for his "we shall never surrender" speech and not giving into Germany's attack on his country during the Battle of Britain
FDR- died of a stroke; signing the declaration of war on Japan after Pearl Harbor, developing the atomic bomb
Stalin- died of a stroke; signing the Non-Aggression pact with Germany, Germany invading the Soviet Union and the Soviets having to take a huge stand against Germany and pushing them back really far, and eventually taking over Berlin
1930s Topics
31 Invasion of Manchuria- northern part of China; high tariff from US so Japan needed resources after the depression so they invaded Manchuria because it was full of resources
36 Italy Invades Ethiopia- did this to regain the land they'd lost in WWI and also to regain some respect because they'd lost to a black country
36 Spanish Civil War- Francisco Franco was who Hitler and Mussolini supported, important for Hitler because it took the spotlight off of him and also they both could send troops to get them battle ready
36 Rome-Berlin Axis-Hitler and Mussolini said their "axis" and the world would revolve around these two cities, the official alliance between the two, this is where the name Axis powers came from
37 Japan Invades China- what year they did this, China was to Japan as Soviet Union was to Germany, which means China was just too big for Japan to take over although it looked like they would succeed at first
38 Munich Conference- Hitler wanted to take over the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia because it had a lot of German-speaking people living there; there was a conference in Munich with Italy, Germany, Great Britain, and France and they decided that they would just give the land to him if he promised not to take over any more land; Policy of Appeasement (what they decided at the conference) only delayed the inevitable (Churchill opposed this)
38 Austrian Anchluss- means union; Hitler was born here; Hitler annexed Austria and some didn't welcome it but the Nazis did; Austria is a German speaking country anyway
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