Mr Bruns pwpt over Germany:
- stab in the back theory
- great depression, no job....
- blamed the Weimer Republic
- belief that germany could have won the war
- Poland: september 1939
- 1940: Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, France.
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- France "impenetrable" Maginot line
- Name 6 countries that hitler took over in 1940
- June 1940: Miracle of Dunkirk (Dunkerque): UK and FR evacuated from Dunkerque to UK
- France surrenders in june 1940
- D-Day 1944, june 6
- South= Vichy France, led by Henri Petain, supported the nazis
- 1941: invasion Yugoslavia
-10 countries taken over by nazis during the war: Bel, Netherlands, Lux, Fr, Poland, Denmark, Albania, Yugoslavia, Greece, Norway
- Battle of Britain: Nazi goals: 1.destroy the royal air force, 2.destroy the british army, 3. attack birtish troops, 4.once air control was gained, the invasion of great britain would begin. #1 was never achieved, germans bombers did really poorly during the day that they bombed during the night only. GB was aided by the radar and Ultra.
- Invasion of the URSS: Operation Barbarosa: Moscow, Stalingrad, Leningrad: failed. The winter sets in : germans weren't prepared, supply lines were too long. december 1941- april 1942
- 2 million casualties for GER and RUS. surrended Leningrad, russians were starving, cannibalism, eating rats and wallpaper,
- GER: north Africa, General Rommel.
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- General Eisenhower gives the orders for D day
- july 20, 1944, assassination plot against Hiter
- august 25, 1944, liberation of paris
- battle of the bulge: offensive of Hitler but failed
- US, RUS and GER met at the elbe river (germany): april 25, 1945
- V-E day (May 8, 1945) victory
- Propaganda:
- Holocaust: 6 million jews killed (mass killing-genocide)but between 11-17 million of victims (jews, gypsies, mentally/handicapped people, soviets, slavs, poles, homosexuals, communists, socialists, mixed and dark skin people (death and forced sterilization))
- The Aryan: blond, tall, blue eyes. muscular for guys.
- Lebensborn: Aryan would have better healthcare, aryan+aryan
- Nuremburg laws: 1935, took away german citizenship,
- boycott, nazis took control of jewish stores
- yellow stars
-1942 final solution
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