Week of April 4-8

[1Clara]

Monday:

• Notes over Japan/ Germany presentation 

Tuesday:

• Notes over Germany

Wednesday:

• Career day

Thursday:

• Germany PowerPoint

Friday:

• Germany Powerpoint and new forum post leaders

Japan

•  Areas controlled by Japan during WWII
  • Several regions in China 1938-1945
  • French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) - July 15,1940 - August 29, 1945
  • Hong Kong (UK) - December 12, 1940 - August 15, 1945
  • Thailand - an as 'allied' state although induced - December 8, 1941 - August 15, 1941
  • British New Guinea - December 27, 1941 - September 15, 1945
  • Philippines (USA) - January 2, 1942 - November 27
  • Andaman and nicobar Ilands (India)
  • Straits Settlements (Singapore)
  • Kingdom of Sarawak (UK)
• Areas Attacked but not conquered
  • Air raids on AustraliaBritish Columbia 
    • Broome 
    • Darwin
    • Newcastle
    • Sydney
  • Kohima and Manipur
  • Colombo and Trincomale
  • Dornod
  • United States
    • Santa Barbara (California)
    • Pearl Harbor (Hawaii)
    • Midway Atoll
    • For Stevens (Oregon)
• Japan in the 1920's
  • Joined League of Nations
• Japanese Invasion of Manchuria - 1931China Incident - July 1937
  • lacking world trade and needed resources 
  • The League of Nations condemned the action but could not enforce its authority as it had no military force
  • The message sent to aggressive countries was that a major power could get away with using force because Great Britain and France did ntot want war
  • Japan dropped out of the League of Nations shortly after the invasion 
• Rape of Nanking - Late 1937 - Early 1938Tripartite Pact is signed forming Axis Powers - 1940
  • mass killing of Chinese people (300,000)
  • mass raping of Chinese women and girls 
  • mass looting and arson
  • some in Japan ave denied that the military killed civilians for no reason 
  • still causes tension between the two countries today 
  • there were war crimes trial after the war to try Japanese soldiers for participation 
• Soviet- Japanese Neutrality Pact
  • The USSR and Japan signed an agreement to not fight one another in April, 1941
  • Japan considered breaking this once Germany (their ally) invaded the USSR in June, 1941, but did not
  • The USSR broke this treaty when they declared war on Japan August 9,1945
• Admiral Yamamoto
  • came up with the Pearl Harbor attack
  • educated in the United States
• Pearl Harbor
  • after invading French Indochina in 1940, US stopped trading with Japan
  • Japan signed the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in April, 1941, guaranteeing that Japan and USSR would not go to war
  • Japan realized they needed US trade to be successful in war
  • Only way to force US' hand was to hit them and in a surprise attack forcing them out of the war
• December 8, 1941December 7, 1941- Philippines
  • last day US declared war
• Battle of Coral Sea- First turning point in the Pacific 
• Battle of Midway - June 1942 - Major turning point in the pacific
• Guadalcanal- August, 1942- February, 1943
  • island hopping 
• Kamikazes
  • desperation

Germany

-Major events that impacted their country between WWI and WWII.

• Nazi Party was set up
  • Pressured the Weimar Republic
    • Ruling Class
    • Blamed Jews
  • Beer Hall Putsch
    • Hitler's arrest
    • Mein Kampf
• Economy
  • Mass unemployment
  • Inflation
• Treaty of Versailles
  • Germany lost land
    • France
    • Belgium
    • Denmark
    • Poland
    • Czechoslovakia
  • Military was reduced to 100,000 men; the army was not allowed tanksHad to pay $33 billion to the Allies
    • Not allowed to have an air force
    • Allowed only 6 capital ships

-Discuss basic facts: alliance, total casualties, total cost, war goals, etc

• 5,533,000 military deaths
• Civilian and Military Deaths- 6,600,000-8,800,000
• Germany was an Axis power

-Tell us about their leader(s) during WWII

                -background

                -how they came to power

                -how they lost power

-Discuss the impact of their Homefront and propaganda and what it was like in their country during the war

• Nazi propaganda
• Rallies and Speeches
  • Speeches given by Hitler
  • parades
• Nazi bride schools
  • women would go to school to become good Nazi wives
• Slave Labor
  • Foreigners from countries were taken over by Nazis
• Children
  • Enlistment age dropped to 13 and many kids fought

-Discuss major battle strategies

• Blitzkrieg (Lightning War)
  • Small mobile forces
  • Prevented Warlock
  • Used against
    • Poland
    • Belgium
    • Netherlands
    • France
• Siegfried Line
  • Stopped tanks
  • Stopped attacks
  • Proved ineffective
• Atlantic Wall
  • 2,000 mile long defense of 
    • Gun placements
    • Tank traps
    • Obstacles

-Discuss major battles that the country was involved in

• D-Day
  • Allies had liberated North Africa and pressed on into Italy
  • Hitler refused to surrender
• Battle of Britain
  • First major military campaign in history to be fought entirely in the air
  • They were trying to win air superiority over Great Britain
• Operation Barbarossa
  • Hitler launched his armies in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union
  • Severely underestimated their opponents
  • Biggest Mistake

-Discuss other people/generals from their country in WWII that had a major impact on the war

• Walter Von Brauchitsch
  • Commander and Chief of the German Army
• Joseph Goebbels
  • Minister of Propaganda
• Erwin RommelHenrich Himmler
  • General- implicated in a plot to overthrow Hitler

-Discuss why they won or lost the war

• Supply lines were too long
• Russian winter (Germany not prepared)
• Troops too spread out
• Russia had too many soldiers
• Too many allied countries against Germany

-Discuss the impact WWII had on the country

• Germany got divided into 4 different zones
• It had been transformed in 15 years from a Nazi disaster zone to a prosperous immigration zone
• Germans in both East and West Germany turned away from militarism
• Weren't nationalistic after the War

First true calling came from WWI 

• Swastika - Nazi symbol
  • was a sign of peace before 
• Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
  • push to take over the German government
    • completely unsuccessful 
  • Hitler's Trial - 1924
    • Hitler in prison  for four years
  • Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
• Hitler Rise to Power
  • early actions of Hitler:
    • drops out of the League of Nations
    • starts rearming Germany 
    • rearms the German Rhineland area
  • Anschuluss (Union) with Austria - 1938
  • Sudetenland Drisis - 1939
  • "Reunited German-speaking peoples" 
• Munich Conference -- Chamberlain: "Peace for our time"
  • Hitler was given the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia
  • Hitler promised that he was done taking over territories
  • Hitler wanted to reunite all German speaking people
  • Became known as the "Policy of appeasement"
• Winston Churchill
  • criticized Chamberlain for Appeasement 
• Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia - 19
• 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 for 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 
• Nazi- Soviet Regression Pact
  • how did the world react to this pact?
    • shock
    • Poland was scared
    • Hitler though it would force Great Britain and France back out of their promise to help Poland if attacked 
• Sitzkrieg- The Phony War
  • Ends Spring, 1940
  • Czech & Poland 
• France's "Impenetrable" Maginot Line
• Dunkirk Evacuated June 4, 1940
• France surrenders June, 1940
• Nazi Goal's for Battle of Britain
  • 1) Destroy the Royal Air Force (before invasion was possible-