7.7: Conducting WW2 / 7.8: Atrocities / 7.9: Causation of Global Conflict

7.7: New Order in East Asia

Japan invaded China, so America cut exports to Japan, causing tension

7.7: Blitzkrieg

GER used fast tank divisions to subdue Poland

7.7: Vichy France

FRA set up a pro-Nazi regime here due to GER expansion into FRA

7.7: Destroyers-for-Bases Agreement

US gave 50 destroyers for 8 British air/naval bases

7.7: Lend-Lease Act

US gave up neutrality by lending war materials to UK

7.7: Atlantic Charter

US & UK made a policy statement that set down basic goals for the world post-WW2

7.7: Battle of Britain

Germans bombed UK cities after UK Air Force raided Berlin. Better planes & radars helped push Germans away

7.7: Siege of Leningrad

GER failed to invade UK, so they invaded USSR and had success until the winter when USSR countered.

7.7: Pearl Harbor

Japan bombed this US base

7.7: Colonial Armies

Western colonies like the Indian Army helped the Allies

7.7: Home Fronts

Countries engaged in total war and made citizens help the war cause through US propaganda & GER concentration camps

7.7: Erwin Rommel

German general led German troops to invade Egypt

7.7: Battle of El Alamein

British defeated Erwin Rommel

7.7: Battle of Stalingrad

Soviet counteroffensive defeated Hitler

7.7: Battle of the Coral Sea

US stopped JAP navy from invading AUS

7.7: Battle of Midway Island

4 JAP aircraft carriers were destroyed, destroying JAP confidence in Pacific

7.7: Guadalcanal

Major Allied offensive that ended in an Allied victory

7.7: Douglas MacArthur & Island Hopping

Allies attacked Islands where Japan was weak and skipped those where Japan was strong

7.7: Aircraft Carriers

Ships that provided air support for battleships

7.7: D-Day

Allied forces marched Normandy beaches to regain France

7.7: Battle of the Bulge

Battle in France/Belgium where Germany lost vs. Allies

7.7: Battle of Kursk

USSR challenged Blitzkrieg by planning a counteroffensive

7.7: V-E Day

Victory in Europe Day after Germany surrendered

7.7: Hiroshima & Nagasaki

US dropped atomic bombs on these cities

7.7: V-J Day

Victory over Japan day where US beat Japan

7.7: Consequences of WWII

Tension between USSR & US, changed people’s thought on racism, colonial empires & international relations

7.8: Armistice Day

Allies forced Germany to surrender

7.8: Armenian Genocide

Ottomans killed Christian Armenians due to the belief that they were helping Russia

7.8: Genocide

Killing a group based on race/religion/ethnicity

7.8: Influenza Epidemic

Disease would kill soldiers in a region

7.8: Pandemic

Disease over large/global areas

7.8: Famine in the Ukraine

USSR had harsh crop collection, causing famine in Ukraine

7.8: Heinrich Himmler

Leader of Nazi police ovesaw removing foreigners from their homes during expansion

7.8: Ghettos

Poor sections of cities that Jews were forced into

7.8: “Final Solution” & the Holocaust

Nazis massacred and sent Jews to death camps in an act of genocide called the Holocaust

7.8: Rape of Nanking

Japan killed many Chinese

7.8: “Asia for Asiatics”

Japan forced people they conquered into labor programs

7.8: Firebombing of Hamburg & Dresden

Allies firebombed German cities

7.8: Firebombing of Tokyo

USA firebombed Tokyo

7.8: Effects of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Fear of nuclear weapons and casualties

7.8: Bosnia

Ethnic conflict drove genocide here

7.8: Slobodan Milosevic

Led Serbian nationalists who were excited for ethnical purity after USSR collapse

7.8: Ethnic Cleansing

Serbs tried this against Muslims from Bosnia & Kosovo

7.8: Balkanization

Yugoslavia disintegrated into separate states

7.8: Rwanda

Genocide due to Belgian colonizers

7.8: Tutsis & Hutus

Belgian colonizers treated minority Tusis better than majority Hutus, causing genocide between tribes

7.8: Failure of the UN in Rwanda

Belgian peacekeepers were killed, making UN back off

7.8: Darfur Genocide in Sudan

Rebel groups in the Darfur region of Sudan fought and government sent Janjaweed, causing genocide in Darfur

7.8: Janjaweed

Sudan’s government sent Arab horsemen to fight Darfur rebels

7.8: Omar-al Bashir

Sudan president charged with war crimes, but continued w/ genocide

7.9: Political Causes of Global Conflict

WW1: Alliances, nationalism, arms races, imperial rivalries

WW2: Alliances, fascism, imperial ambitions

7.9: Economic Causes of Global Conflict

Countries wanted to take control of trade and/or territory in Asia/Africa as well as to control markets

7.9: Effects of Global Conflict

Mass death, political revolutions, fascism, totalitarianism, colonial independence movements, and reposition of power