World History Two: World War Two Notes

Who ruled Japan when they were looking to expand

The military

What did Japan do in 1931

Launched a invasion on china

What does Japan do in 1937

They capture Nanjing, where they kill thousands of civilians

What does it Italy so in 1935

Invade Ethiopia, League of Nations doesn’t care

What are some of the first locations Germany invades

1) The Rhineland( area bordering France)

2) Austria

3)The Sudetenland (German speaking part Czechoslovakia)

What was the Munich Agreement

Letting hitler take over thease lands in exchange for his promise to not invade more land

What type of policy was the Munich Agreement

Appeasement

What is appeasement

Giving into someone’s demands in order to keep peace

Who were the acess powers

Italy, Germany, and Japan

What started WW2

Hitler invades Poland on September First, causing Frace and Britain to declare war

How long does it take for Germany occupy northern France

A month

Who runs the French Resistance from London

French PM Charles De Gaulle

What was the outcome of the Battle of Britain

The British won

Atlantic Charter

USA would supply money and supplies to Great Britain

Operation Barbarossa

Germanys surprise invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941

Operation Husky

fight in North Africa and then invade Sicily in 1943

What happened to Mussolini

Captures and executed when trying to escape Italy in 1945

D Day/ operation overlord

Allied invasion of France in June 6th

Battle of the Buldge

Germans launch a counterattack against allies moving from Belgium into Germany

Who was the first to reach Germanys capital of Berlin

USSR

Unconditional surrender

Would not accept any terms from the Axis powers that did not state their complete defeat

What does Stalin tell his red army

To defend Stalingrad to death

What happened when the Soviet’s launch a counter attack in Stalingrad

German troops surrender, Soviet Union moves west

Where does Hitler hide

In his bunker

How does Hitler die

Poison

When does Germany surrender

May 9th 1945

Island hopping

Taking each price of Japanese controlled territory island by island

When does Japan surrender

September 2nd 1945

Why did Japan surrender

Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Big three

Churchill, Stalin, FDR

Tehran conference

Big three agree to open up the western front against Germany to ease difficulties in eastern front

Yalta Confrence

1) divide Germany between big 3

2) create new worldwide council

3) Soviet I took declares war on Japan

Potsdam Confrence

Plan to disarm Germany and finally defeat Japan

West Germany and West Berlin,

democratic governments, influence democracy Britain and USA

East Germany and east Berlin

Communist government influence from ussr

Who takes over Japan to see transition into democratic government

Douglas MacArthur

Iron curtain

The dividing line between free Western Europe and communist east Europe

what was the physical iron curtain

The Berlin Wall

What were the two post war teams

NATO and Warsaw pact

Marshall Plan

USA gives aid to rebuild countries affected by the war

Truman doctrine

Any country fighting communism would get support from USA and its allies

Sino-Soviet Split

Competition for influence between china and Soviet Union

Great Leap Forward

Creation of large collective farms called communes where people worked and lived

Red guard

Movement to promote farm labor and stop educational institutions

Who did mao recruit for the red guard

Students