week 3/14- 3/19

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?

  1. The were scared
  2. poland was scared
  3. 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
  1. Airplanes- trying to take out military bases, roads(transportation), communication. Take out useful stuff from them, to make it easier for you
  2. Tanks- (panzers)- circling around Poland and making them too scared to fight.
  3. trucks with troops- Goal is to get as far into poland as they can, 
  4. 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

  1. Jews (6 million) 
  2. Gypsies (500,000, 1.5 million)
  3. Mentally/ physically handicapped (75,000 to 250,000)
  4. soviet slavs/ POWS/ troops (16.5 million)
  5.  Poles (2.5 million)
  6. homosexuals
  7. communists/ socialists 
  8. dark skin people 
  9. mixed races
  10. 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
  1. Killing members of the group
  2. causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group 
  3. deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculates to bring about its physical destruction in whore or oart of
  4. imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
  5. 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 
  1. hong kong 
  2. british new guinea
  3. guam
  4. malaya
  5. french indochina
  • After the war they had to give all the countries back 

Areas attacked but not conquered

  1. air raid on australia 
  • broome 
  • darwin
  • newcastle
  1. bristish columbia 
  2. dornod
  3. 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
  1. 4 power pact- would respect each other 
  • signed the kellogg- briand pact

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