roads to war

Invasion of Ethiopia

• Italy attacked Ethiopia

• Led by Mussolini

Rome- Berlin Axis

Alliance between Italy and Germany

Concentration Cmaps

• Detention centres used by Nazi Germany.

• Held political prisoners, minorities, and later victims of genocide.

Kristallnact

• Night when Jewish homes and shops were destroyed

Anschluss

Germany took over Austira

Appeasement

• • Letting a country do wrong to avoid war

• Practised by Britain and France toward Hitler.

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

• Germany and USSR agreed not to fight

Blitzkrieg

• Fast attack with tanks and planes

• Lightning war” tactic used by Germany.

• Fast, coordinated attacks using air and ground forces

Battle of Britain

• Air war between Germany and Britain

• Britain won

Operation Barbadosa

Germany attacked the Societ Union

Pearl Harbor

• Japan attacked the USA

• USA joined the war

Holocaust

• Systematic genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany.

Potsdam Conference

• Meeting after WWII

• Leaders decided what to do with Germany