World War 2

The Nuremberg Laws

-announced in 1935

-Made targeting jews government policy

- jews could no longer be german citizens

-jews and non jews could not marry

-limited amount of work and social rights jews had

The night of broken glass

-just a reason for the Germans to kill Jews

-The Jews killed one German diplomat, so the Germans murdered 100 Jews

-burned and destroyed homes, businesses, synagogues, made Jews pay for destruction

“steps to genocide'“

-by end of 1939, Jews were fleeing germany to other countries

-first the Nazis were happy because they wanted them gone, but other countries started restricting immigration because too many were coming

-nazis make another plan

“steps to genocide’ 2

-germany took over more territory, they found more Jews there.

-nazis created overcrowded ghettos, they sealed Jews off there and starved them to death.

Final Solution

-Heinrich Himmler created genocide program final solution

-eliminated all groups they thought inferior

-nazis + SS killing squads swept over Europe and rounded up all Jews, then took them to special isolated areas where they would make them dig trenches to die in.

-jews that weren’t reached by SS killing squad went to concentration camps where they worked until they died

Anschluss w/ Austria

-march 12, 1938 German army went to Austria and were very welcomed

-with this, germany and Austria broke the treaty of Versailles with no repercussions

-treaty of versailles said that Germany and Austria could not unite without consent from League of Nations. Versailles

Munich agreement

-sept 29-30 1938 neville chamberlain (GB), Hitler, Edouard Daladier (France), mussolini meet in munich

-discuss Sudetenland, area in checkslovakia

Neville chaimberlain GB says “peace in our time”

-hitler promises not to try and attain any more territory than sudetenland

steps in holocaust

1. nuremberg laws

2. night of broken glass

3. Forced into ghettos

4. the final solution

Appeasement Failure

-Hitler does not follow the Munich agreement and goes further than Sudetenland

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

-non-aggression pact between Russia and Germany

-they decided to split Poland between them

-Poland is crushed between them,

When did the war start?

sep 1, 1939

Hitlers lightning attack

-sep 1, 1939 germany invades Poland with ‘blitzkreg',’ much like the shleiffen plan used by germany during ww1

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The fall of France

-battle of france; german launches assault on western Europe and are successful

Operation dynamo/dunkirk evaluation

-british and french soldiers were rescued by the British navy from the German military after blitzkreg

Operation Barbarossa

-JUNE 22 1941 - Hitler begins Soviet union invasion and breaks molotov - ribbentrop pact

-soviets arent well equipped, badly trained

-first germans are successful, but then they fall prey to harsh winter.

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Stalingrad battle

-august 1942

-battle over oil fields in reigon

-soviets won, Hitler went on defensive and Hitler say city will be defended until death

Tehran conference

-churchill and Stalin meet in Iran to make allied strategy

they decide..

-russians keep major offensive against Germans in east

-british, American, Canadian will invade through Normandy and force Germans to west

D DAY / operation overlord

-june 6, 1944

-british, american, canadians on french coast to kill germans

-germans LOST

why japan and us went to war

-japan kept moving into europe, this threatened US

-In response, US sent aid to China (japan and china were at war) and cut off traid and oil shipment w/ japan

Pearl harbor

-dec 7, 1941

-japan planned secret attack to kill main us fleet at pearl harbor

-this was coordinated with other attacks on pacific against US

-destroyed many of US big guns however the Japanese missed biggest baddest us ships

-US declared 2 front war on japan bc of pearl harbor

Battle of Midway

-june 4, 1942

-us broke Japan secret code for their plan to attack the us and made plan to surprise attack them

-us won

battle of leyte

-first time japanese used kamikaze attacks

bombs dropped

- result of the Manhattan Project

-to make japan surrender

-little boy - Aug 6, 1945 - hiroshima

-fat man - aug 9, 1945 nagasaki