NOTES:
- going over Japan and Italy notes
- Germany-
Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact
- 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...
How did the react to the pact?
- The were scared
- poland was scared
- hitler thought it would force great britain and france to back out of the war and did not.
German invasion of Poland-Blitzkrieg
- short war, only lasted about a month
- goal was to achieve victory as soon as possible
- Airplanes- trying to take out military bases, roads(transportation), communication. Take out useful stuff from them, to make it easier for you
- Tanks- (panzers)- circling around Poland and making them too scared to fight.
- trucks with troops- Goal is to get as far into poland as they can,
- Infantry- attacks enemy flanks in order to link up.
Sitzkrieg- The Phony War
- Japan joins the pact
- Ends 1940
Miracle of dunkirk
- June 4th 1940
The French Resistance
- The free french
- the maquis
- General
Nazi Goals for the battle of britain
- Destroy the royal air force(before invasion was possible-hopefully by 9-15
- Attack and destroy the british navy
- Attack british troops
- once air control was gained, the invasion of great britain would begin
- **Germany never succeeded in achieving #1
- **German bombers did so poorly against the RAF that they started bombing at night
- **Great Britain was aided heavily by the radar and Ultra
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
- German losses 3.363 aircrew and 2,265 aircraft
- Britain won by the fact that germany did not achieve their goals
German Invasion of USSR- June 1941
- Final plan for operation barbarossa
- Mainly going off Moscow, Volgograd, Stalingrad
Scorched Earth policy
- Stalin demanded this of the soviet troops as they are retarded
- burn everything
Battle of Moscow
- The soviet winter counteroffensive December 6, 1941- April 30,1942
- the russians winter sets in and make is a huge turning point in the war
Battle of Stalingrad
- around two million total casualties
- winter 1942-43
Siege of Leningrad
- the germans took over 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 in submission(planes)
- between 1941-42 641,000 people died of starvation
- People resorted to eating rats, wallpaper paste and some resorted to cannibalism
- Finally a successful russians counteroffensive and stalingrad, drained necessary resources the germans needs to continue the blockade
The north African Campaign 1940-43
- Italy wanted to take over north africa
D-Day
- june 6th 1944
- nickname- operation overload
- normandy landing
- July 20th 1944- assassination plot
- the liberation of paris- august 25th 1944
The battle of bulge
- Dec. 16th 1944 to jan 28th 1945
- Us and Russian soldiers meet at the Elbe River(in Germany) April 25th 1945
Hitler commits suicide
- April 30th, 1945
- shot himself
V-E day-
- Victory in Europe day
- May 8th, 1945
The holocaust
- the genocide of approximately sic million european jews during world war 2
- A program of systematic state sponsored extermination by nazi germany throughout nazi occupied territory
- Approximately two thirds of the population of nin million jews who has lived in europe before the holocaust died
- Some say that the definition of the holocaust should also include the nazis killing of millions of people in other groups from germany and other occupied territory
- The total number of holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people
Who is inferior according to Hitler
- Jews (6 million)
- Gypsies (500,000, 1.5 million)
- Mentally/ physically handicapped (75,000 to 250,000)
- soviet slavs/ POWS/ troops (16.5 million)
- Poles (2.5 million)
- homosexuals
- communists/ socialists
- dark skin people
- mixed races
- jehovah witness
what is the aryan race
- Blonde hair, blue eyes
Lebensborn- Front of life
- the program aims to promote the growth of "superior" Aryan populations by providing excellent health care and living conditions
Hitlers jewish question -1933
- The nazis st up the first concentration camp in Dachau in 1933
- jewish are prohibited from working as civil servants, doctors in the national health service, and teachers at public high schools
- most jews are banned from public high schools
1935- Nuremberg laws
- took away german citizenship from jews
- established membership in the jewish race as being anyone who either considered themseleeves jewish or has three or four jewish grandparents
- jews could only marry jews
- no sexual relations between non jewish germans and jews
1936-
- nazi boycott jewish-owned businesses
- Don't buy from jewish businesses so they would go out of business
1938- "Night of the broken glass"
- The germans would brake jewish homes windows and burn and looting
- 101 synagogues were destroyed and almost 7,500 jewish businesses destroyed
- 26,000 jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps
- jews were physically attacked and beaten and 91 died in the attack
1938- cont
- All jewish children are expelled from public schools in germany and austria
- nazis take control of jewish owned business
1948- United nations
- Genocide means any of the following acts committed wigtht eh intent to destroy , in the whole or in oart, a national, ethical , racial, religiose group
- Killing members of the group
- causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
- deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculates to bring about its physical destruction in whore or oart of
- imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
- forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
- Member countries must"undertake to prevent and punish"
1939
- hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled in germany and Austria
- jews are required to wear armbands or yellow stars
1940-
- Nazis begin deporting german jews to poland
- jews are forced into ghettos
- nazis begin the first mass murder of jews in poland
1941-
- Jews throughout Eastern Europe are forced into ghettos
- in two days, german units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian jew at Babi Yar - the largest single massacre of the holocaust
- The death camp at Chelmno in poland begins murdering jews
- The unites states , great britain, and the soviet union acknowledge that germans are exterminating the jews in europe
1943-
- jews in the warsaw ghetto resist as the nazis begin new rounds of deportations. These jews hold out for nearly a month before the n azis put down the upsring.
1944-
- Hitler take overs hungary and begins deporting 12,000 jews a day to a camp, where they were murdered.
- Goal was to kill 9 million jews
1945-
- hitler is defeated and world war 2 ends in europe
- the holocaust is over and the death camps are found emptied.
- many survivors are placed in displacement persons camps until they find a country willing to accept them.
1947-
- the united nations established a jewish homeland in british controlled palestine, which becomes the state of israel in 1948.
JAPAN-
- Areas japan toke over
- hong kong
- british new guinea
- guam
- malaya
- french indochina
- After the war they had to give all the countries back
Areas attacked but not conquered
- air raid on australia
- broome
- darwin
- newcastle
- bristish columbia
- dornod
- united states
- pearl harbor
- midway atoll
- fort stevens
- santa barbara
Japan in the 1920's
- joined the league of nations
- signed the 4,5 and 9 power pacts
- 4 power pact- would respect each other
- signed the kellogg- briand pact
Comments