Monday- Germany finished video and took notes
Treaty of Versailles
- Territorial
- Land was taken away from Germany
- Military
- Germany's army was reduced to 100,000 men, the army was not allowed tanks
- Germany was not allowed to have an air force
The German Reactions to the Treaty of Versailles
- There was anger throughout Germany when the terms were maed public
- The treaty was seen by many Germans as being forced on them and the Germans had no choice but to sign it
- Many in Germany did not want the Treaty signed
- German representatives in Paris knew that they had no choice as Germany was incapable of starting the war again
Hitler Rise to Power
- Hitler is appointed Chancellor in 1933
- President Paul Von Hindenburg dies shortly after and Hitler dissolves the Weimer Republic
- Early Actions of Hitler:
- Drops out of the League of Nations
- Starts rearming Germany
- Rearms the German Rhineland area
Munich Conference
- Hitler was given the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia
- Hitler promised that he was done taking over territories
- Hitler wanted to re-unite all German speaking people
- Became known as the "Policy of appeasement
Nazi- Soviet Union
- 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
Results
- In may, 1941, Germany decided to focus on attacking British ships and ports and thus stopped attacking cities
- British losses-around 40,000 civilians dead
- 46,000- 139,000 injured
Scorched earth policy
- Stalin demanded this of the Soviet Union as they retreated
Seige of Leningrad
- On august 30, 1941, the Germans took over Leningrads railroads cutting them off from the rest of Russia and the world
- Unlike the battle of Stalingrad, the Germans surrounded the city to starve the city into submission
- Between November 1941 and October 1942, 641,000 people died of starvation
US and Russian Soldiers meet the the ELbe River (in Germany): April 25, 1945
Hitler Commits Suicide: April 30, 1945
Nazi Propaganda
- "All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it.... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other war around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise"- Adolf Hitler
The Holocaust
- The genocide of approxiamently six million European Jews during World War 2
- A program of systematic state- sponsored extermiation by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi- Occupied territory
- Approximentley two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had lived in Europe before the Holocaust died
- Some say that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' killing millions of people in other groups from Germany and other occupied territory
- By this definition, the total number of holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people
Who was Inferior According to Hitler
- Jews (6 million dead)
- Gypsies
- Mentally/Physically handicapped
- Poles
- Homosexuals
- Communists /socialists
- Dark skinned people
- Mixed Races
- Jehovah's Witnesses
What is the Aryan Race
- Nazis used term to reger to a so-called master race
Tuesday- Notes
Wednesday- Career Fair day
Thursday- Notes
Friday- Notes
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