WW2 notes for krithi

Winnipeg general strike

1919- workers demanding better pay,

bloody saturday- led to a death and injuries

The great crash

1929- stocks were becoming higher than their actual worth, led to black tuesday

black tuesday

October 29 1929, stock market crash- everyone selling stocks, no one buying

effects of stock market crash

investors lost almost all of their money, banks wanted payments for credit loans- ppl can’t repay so bank takes back assets, companies went bankrupt bc ppl couldnt buy anything- led to unemployment

*start of great depression

causes of great depression

• over expantion and over production

• canadian dependance on wheat

• canadian dependance on US

• high tariffs

• ppl buying on credit

• natural disaster (dust bowl)

• low demand for canadian products

• ripple effect

• STOCK MARKET CRASH WAS NOT A CAUSE OF GREAT DEPRESSION

dirty thirties - great depression

in 1933- 1/3 of canadians out of work, created relief camps, bennett buggies bc ppl couldnt afford gas, on to ottawa trek

relief camps

for unemployed men to get a little bit of money, to prevent crime

on to ottawa trek

1935- unemployed men went from camps to talk to RB Bennet about unemployment- demanded better jobs and pay, led to regina riot

regina riot

unemployed men rioted with local police in regina saskatchewan

cause of end of great depression

sept 3, 1939- when war industries opened

ww2 start date

sep 3, 1939

appeasement define

giving in to demands

pros of appeasment

fear of communism, fear of another world war, thought treaty of versailles was too harsh on germans, allies need more time to prepare for war

cons of appeasment

made hitler more aggresive, munich agreement was a failure, hitler wanted to attack all of europe and the world, germany kept growing stronger, threatened USSR

treaty of versailles

accept total blame of ww1, reduce military, reparations of 33 billion, loss of territory

causes of ww2

treraty of versailles, many countries in europe had split off from germany, rise in extremism (communism and facism), bc of great depression more ppl willing to follow radical leaders

1923- hitler

leader of nazi party, led riots, thrown in prison, wrote mein kampf

nazi

nationalist socialist party

1928- hitler

reorganised nazis, won 12 seats

1929- hitler

hitler uses global depression to campaign

1932- hitler

president appointed hitler to chancellor

1933- hitler

siezes power, declares himself furher

what did hitler do

wanted to take over all german speaking countries taken away by treaty of versailles, sent out secret police (gestapo) to terrorise opposition, spread propaganda and gave ppl targets. put germans in factory jobs to create new things, created larger army

1920- league of nations

league of nations created, appeased hitler

when did japans invasion of chinese province manchuria

september 1930- china asked league for help, didnt help

soviet union participation in league of nations

joined 1935, expelled 1939

when did germany and japan leave league of nations

1933

german and italy pact

1937- not to go to war with each other, later joined by japan, called axis powers

when was rineland taken

1936- rineland (btwn france and germany) was taken, specified in treaty of versailles

when did nazi soldiers occupies austria

march 1938

reunification of germany term

anschluss

when does hitler take part of czechoslovakia

summer 1938,

when did france and germany do the munich agreement?

september 1938

munich agreement

france and britain appeasing to hitlers demands,

when did hitler invaded czechoslovakia

march 1939, broke munich agreement

when did soviets and nazis make the nazi soviet non agression pact

august 1939

blitzkreig

lightning war, relentless air and ground attacks taking enemies by surprise

poland takeover

sept 1939

denmark, norway, netherlands, belgium, france takeover

spring 1940

dunkirk

spring 1940, british and french troops pushed back and had to leave stuff behind,

battle of britain

july 10, 1940- 50 km channel btwn britain and france, british air control of channel challenged by germans, war in air, hitler lost

luftwaft

germany planes and airforce

british airforce beat german airforce when?

sept 15, 1940

operation barbarossa

june 1941- causes soviet union to join allies

• germans failed due to harsh winter and soviet resistance

• started june 22, ended december 5

• canada supported

pearl harbor attack

december 1941- causes america to join war

dieppe raid

august 19, 1942

• mainly canadian soldiers

• allies forced to retreat in 10 hrs

• big failure

battle of hong kong

december 8-25 1941

• against japanese

• japan against china, america and canada helped

battle of france

may 10-june 25 1940

• german forces invaded france and captured Paris

battle of atlantic

september 3 1939- May 8 1945

• allies vs axis powers

• fought across atlantic ocean

• germans wanted to cut off british supplies

• control of atlantic was important for future invasions

• canada escorted supply convoys

the holocaust

• 6 million jews killed

• genocide

steps to holocaust

1. stripping of rights

2. segregation

3. concentration

4. extermination

stripping of rights

1935- nuremberg laws passed

• stripped of german citizenship

• had to carry ids

segregation

put into designated places called ghettos, 356 ghettos

concentration camps

slave labor, starvation

extermination

death camps

what was final solution?

mass extermination of all jewish people, usually used zyklon B gas

nuremberg trials

1945-1949

• nazi officials tried for war crimes

VE day

May 8 1945, when nazi germany surrendered, victory in europe days

atomic bombs in japan

hiroshima and nagasaki, ended war