Bullet Points 16: WW2

How Germany violate the Treaty of Versialles with Russia

In 1922, the Germans and the Soviet Union signed a secret pact that allowed the German army to conduct maneuvers in Russia in exchange for German help in building up Russian industry and military potential.

What made the League of Nations weak

The absent of the United States made the League of Nations weak

What was Lenin’s New Economic Policy

• Lenin’s New Economic Policy allowed:

  • Peasants to own land and sell their crops

  • Private merchants to trade

  • Private workshops to produce goods and sell them on the free market

Black Thursday and the effect on Global economy

• “Black Thursday was the day all stock markets fell.

  • This caused thousands of banks to collapse

Alexandra Kolbani

• Alexandra Kollontai was the most outspoken of the Bolsheviks on the subject of women’s rights.

  • She advocated the liberation of women, the replacement of housework by communal kitchens and laundries, and divorce on demand

Great Depression effect on industrialize nations vs non-industrialized nations

• Industrialize Nations

  • Unemployment rose

    • Ex. Germany’s unemployment reached 6 million by 1932

  • Colonial Empires were forced to buy products from their Mother Country like Britain & France

  • The Depression gave rise to Nationalists who sought independence from the world economy

  • Radical leaders in Germany and Japan turned their nations into military machines. (Use Hitler)

• Non-Industrialize Nations

  • Countries that were dependent on their European Empires suffered than any other countries

  • The governments became autocratic and unpopular

  • Southern Africa was the only survivor

Newly formed small countries in Europe were only safe as long as

The small nations were safe only as long as Germany and Russia lay defeated and prostrate.

How Turkey became a country? Who led the comparing?

• Mustafa Kemal led a short but fierce war against the Greeks in 1922.

• His armies reconquered Anatolia and an area around Constantinople.

  • Hundreds and thousands of Greeks were forced out of their ancestral home in Anatonia

Developements that occured in the Middle East following WW1

• Trucks replaced camel caravans, and landless peasants migrated to the swelling cities.

• The population of the region is estimated to have bounced back by 50 percent between 1914 and 1939

  • Large cities such as Constantinople, Baghdad, and Cairo doubled

How the Guomindang evolved between 1919-1929

The Guomindanf went from being a Nationalist Party to a dictatorship under Chiang Kai-shek rule who was determine to defeat all warlords

What the fascial movement exceptl at

• The Fascist Movement excelled at:

  • Fancy Speeches

  • Spectacular Parades

  • Proclaiming “Il Duce is always right“

What Mein Kampf is and what Nazis is short for

• Nazis - National Socialist German Workers’ Part

• Mein Kampf (My Struggle), in which he outlined Hitler’s struggles, goals, and beliefs.

Why the democratic countries appeases Hitler’s aggressions

• Hitler threatened to start another war, which led to the leaders of France, Britain, and Italy giving him everything he wanted without consulting Czechoslovakia

Nanjing

The Japanese took over Nanjing in 1937–1938 and raped 20,000 women, killed roughly 200,000 prisoners and civilians, and looted and burned the city

Blitzkrieg

• A German war tactic

  • First, fighter planes scattered enemy troops and disrupted communications, then tanks punctured the enemy’s defenses, and then, with the help of the infantry, they encircled and captured enemy troops.

Hitler’s campaign against the Soviet Union? How many loves were lost?

• Hitler sought to conquer Lebensraum in the east and enslave the Slavic peoples

  • So, in June 1941, he launched the largest attack in history, with 3 million soldiers and thousands of planes and tanks.

• In 5 months, the Wehrmacht conquered the Baltic states, Ukraine, and half of European Russia, captured a million prisoners of war, and reached the very gates of Moscow and Leningrad.

  • But then the weather turned cold, freezing the machines, and halted the invasion ground

• Hitler lost an army of 200,000 men and his last chance of defeating the Soviet Union in 1943 when the winter hit

December 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor, a U.S naval base, was bombed by the Japanese

How WWII ended

• Germany

  • Hitler committed suicide

• Japan

  • Japan signed the surrender terms

What happened to Guomindang following WWII

Guomindang fell due to their greed