History recap/summary WW2

Paris Peace conference

1919 - determine terms to end WW1

The Big 3

David George, Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson

Treaty of Versailles (1919)

Diktat signed by Weimar government

Social impacts of WW1

many died in the war, shortage of food, spanish flu

Political impacts of WW1

New government faced anger from Germans (coups, political assassinations)

Economic impacts of WW1

German fell into debt, handed over many reservoirs to other countries, hyperinflation

Hyperinflation

1923 (excess printing of money)

1924-29

Golden age of Weimar, 5 year period where Germany was doing well

1929 the great depression

USA gets hit first affecting Germany and thus Nazi party popularity increases

March 23 1933

Passed the Enabling act

15 September 1935

Nuremberg Race Laws (remove citizenship + restrict rights of Jews in Germany)

9-10 november 1938

Joseph Goebbels incites Kristallnacht

Night of broken glass

September 1, 1939

WW2 starts

Blitzkrieg Technique to Invade Poland

coordinated air and land forces to quickly overwhelm enemy

December 8 1941

USA declared war on Japan after pearl harbour attack

December 7 1941

Japan attack on pearl harbour in the USA

9-10 1942 march USA bombed Japan civilian areas

Operation meetinghouse

Feb 19 - March 26 1945

Battle of Iwo Jima

April 1 – June 22, 1945

Battle of Okinawa

Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa led to…

The development of atomic bombs were because of…

6th August 1945

First USA bomb dropped in Hiroshima

9th August 1945

2nd atomic bomb dropped in Nagasaki

2nd September 1945

WW2 ends

Munich Putsch

November 8-9 1923, led to Hitlers arrest and led to writing Mein Kampf

Attempt to control Weimar government

Mein Kampf

Hitlers autobiography restating his political and racial ideals