Modern World History U#10

What is Vienna known for?

Haven of/for anti-sentimism

Hitler’s trademarks

• Anti- semitism

• Ability to sway masses

• Heil salute

• Swastika

What does Hitler do to avoid being drafted for Austria?

He moves to Germany to join the German army

What does Hitler do in the German army

Becomes a message carrier

What happens to Hitler as a message carrier

He gets caught in a British gas attack and gets temporarily blinded

How did Hitler spend his last days of WW1?

In the hospital

Weimar Republic

2 House Parliament

Lower House [Weimar Republic]

Reichstag

Upper House [Weimar Republic]

Reichsrat

How is Reichstag designed?

Designed to give minority parties a say

Nazi Party real name

National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP)

NSDAP [National Socialist German Workers Party] previous name

German Workers Party (DAP)

When was DAP [German Workers Party] established?

1919

Beer Hall Putsch

Hitler & 2,000 supporters march the streets that result in a gunfight

What is the outcome of Beer Hall Putsch beside being a gunfight

Hitler gets a sentence of 5 years + parole

Result of Great Depression in Germany

Allows the Nazi Party to rise

What does Hitler do as Chancellor

Uses article 48 to gain emergency powers without the consent of Reichstag

When does Hindenburg die?

August, 1934

Führer= ?

Dictator

What does Hitler do once Hindenburg dies

Combines Chancellor & president so that he becomes führer of Germany

How is Hitler made head of DAP?

He threatens leaving DAP unless he is leader with total power

Mein kampf =?

“My struggle”

What is Mein Kampf

Hitler’s autobiography that he wrote in jail

Joseph Gobbels

Propaganda minister during Germany Great Depression

What does Hitler do as dictator?

Create a total state

Total State

A system of government with excessive control and surveillance

SA [Sturmabteilung]

Military

SS [Schutzstaffel]

Secret police

What could the SA do?

Over throw [Nazi] Germany

Night of Long Knives

SA leaders, former chancellors, Catholics shot

How did Hitler justify the Night of Long Knives

He claims to save Germany from a second revolution

What did workers programs do?

Gave Nazi’s full support of workers

DAS= ?

German Labo[u]r Front

Characteristics of Facism

• One- Party rule[s]

• Censorship

• Authoritarian

Italy (Dictator)

Benito Mussolini

USSR [Russia] (Dictator)

Joseph Stalin

Japan (Dictator)

Hirohito

Germany (Dictator)

Adolf Hitler

Hitler makes a nonaggression pact with who?

Russia

When does Germany invade Poland?

September 1, 1939

Blitzkriag= ?

Lightning war/ goes into war with everything he has

When does France & Great Britain declare war on Germany?

September 3, 1939

When does WW2 begin?

September 3, 1939

What was the Soviet Union doing while Germany invades Poland?

Invading Eastern Europe

US indulges in what

Isolation

Japan invades?

China

What does the US do in response to Japan invading China

Cuts off their oil (routes?)

What does Japan do while negotiating with the US

Plans attacks on Pearl Harbor

When was Pearl Harbor?

December 7, 1941

What time did Pearl Harbor start?

7 AM

How does Japan attack

In a series of waves

How many waves did Japan hoist

2

First Wave

Attack on naval forces

Second Wave

Attack on large airfields

When did US declare war on Japan?

December 1, 1941

When does the US enter WW2

December 11, 1941

Phony War

France & Great Britain station troops at Maginot Line, Germany station troops at Siegfried Line

Dunkirk Mission

May 1, 1940: Germany crosses French boarders and 10 days later reach northern coast of France

Dunkirk Mission (Continued)

Germany forces surround British forced and cute them off, causing the British solders to be rescued

When was the Invasion of France

May 1, 1940

Invasion of France

Took Paris by June 14 (in 44 days). France surrenders

When does France leave WW2

June 22

Battle of Britain

Air campaign fought between Royal Air Force (RAF) & German Luftwaffe

When was the Battle of Britain

Jul- Oct, 1940

How does the Battle of Britain end

Hitler calls off attack in May 1941

Outcome of Battle of Britain

First major defeat for Nazi Germany in WW2

Operation Barbarossa

Germany takes control of Balkans by April 1941 and turns his attention to Russia

When does Germany attack Russia

June 22, 1941