Monday- Germany Presentation
Wednesday- Career Fair
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday-
- Treaty of Versailles
- German Reaction-
- anger throughout Germany
- many didn't want the treaty signed
- "november criminals"
- German Reaction-
- Weimar Republic
- Hindenburg- president
- Hitler was chancellor because they thought he could be controlled
- Hitler got rid of the democracy after Hindenburg died of natural causes
- Hitler
- Born in Austria in 1889
- Struggled in school/ Dad beat him
- His parents died while he was young, 20ish
- Moved to Vienna, Austria
- Didn't make it into art school
- Loner
- Austria's army wouldn't accept him in WWI so he went to Germany
- Found his calling in WWI
- Rose to power because of his speaking skills
- Swastika
- Nazi symbol
- "twisted cross"
- Beer Hall Putsch
- 1923
- Tries to overthrow the German Government
- Hitler's Trial
- 1924
- Served for nine months and got out for good behavior
- Wrote Mein Kompf in prison- means my struggles
- Anti-seminist
- Hitler's Rise to Power
- Chancellor in 1933
- President Paul Hindenburg dies shortly after and Hitler dissolves the Weimar Republic
- Early Actions of Hitler:
- Drops out of the League of Nations
- Starts rearming Germany
- Rearms the German Rhineland area
- Anschluss with Austria(United)
- 1938
- Sudetenland Crisis
- 1938
- "RE-uniting German speaking peoples
- Munich Conference
- 1938
- Chamberlain- "Peace for our time"
- Hitler was given the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia
- Hitler promised that he was done taking over areas
- "Policy of Appeasement"
- Winston Churchill- Opposed Appeasement
- Hitler take over all of Czechoslovakia- 1939
- Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact
- German Ambassador von Ribbentrop
- 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
- Reactions
- shock
- Poland was scared
- Hitler thought it would force Great Britain and France to back out of their promise to help Poland if attacked
- Sitzkreig- The Phony War
- ended: Spring 1940
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Norway
- Denmark
- Luxemborg
- France
- Miracle of Dunkirk
- Divided France
- Vichy French
- Allied with Hitler
- Hitler allowed the Vichy french run a small amount of the country
- Leader: Henri Petain
- The Free French
- Ones that fled to Great Britain
- Allied with U.S.
- The Maquis
- Group of underground resistance members
- Vichy French
- Axis Invasion of the Balkans
- Yugoslavia
- 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 #1
- German bombers did so poorly against the RAF that they started bombing at night only
- Great Britain was aided heavily by the radar and ULTRA
- Operation Sea Lion- code name- never happened
- Royal Air Force
- "Never was so much owed by so many to so few"- Winston Churchill
- Results
- in May 1941 Germany decided to focus attacking British
- German Invasion of USSR- June 1941
- Final Plan Operation Barbarossa
- Battle for Moscow
- The Soviet Winter Counteroffensive December 6,1941- April 30, 1942
- The Russian Winter sets in and is a huge turning point
- Battle of Stalingrad
- around 2 million casualties
- Seige of Leningrad
- Germans surrounded the city
- 641,000 people starved to death
- People resorted to eating rats, wallpaper paste and some resorted to cannibalism
- Germans never took over Leningrad
- North Africa Campaign
- 10 months
- The Atlantic Wall
- Ran from France all the way up to Norway
- D-Day
- Normandy Landing
- Battle of the Bulge
- Hitler Commits Suicide
- April 30, 1945
- The Fuhrer's Bunker
- Cyanide and Pistols
- Married to Eva Braun
- The Holocaust
- Genocide of approximately 6 million Jews during WWII
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