history

long term cause of ww1- alliances examples

-treaty of london 1839 meant that britain would protect belgium if attacke

long term causes of ww1-empires example

-germany and france wanted morocco, france got it so germany sent warships to morocco in 1911

long term causes of ww1-militarism

arms race - 1908 germany built 4 dreadnoughts, britain built 2

short term cause of wwi

28 june archduke franz ferdinand killed in bosnia by gavrilo princip

what was the schlieffen plan

germany attack france first through belgium then deal with russia

7 main battles of wwi and number of casulties and date

1915-champagne-france lost 50k

march 1915-neave chapelle-britain lost 11k

april 1915-2nd battle of ypres-france lost 10k

sep-1915-loos-britain lost 60k

feb 1916-verdun-france lost 315k, germany lost 280k

july 1916-somme-britain lost 600k, germany lost 450k

1917-passchendaele-500k lost

treaty of versailles rules (gargle)

Guilt (accept blame)

Army (100k men, 6 battleships, no planes, sub etc)

Reparations (6.6 bil)

Germany lost land (A-L, Rhineland, Polish corridor)

League of Nations set up

Extra (Germany banned from uniting with Austria)

suffragettes definition

militant campaigners for womens rights

why did suffragettes want vote

to elect politicians that can change their lives

what prevented them from having the vote

government thought it wasnt serious enough, and their increasing violence put people off supporting them

hitlers foreign policy aims

-reverse treaty of versailles

-bring all german speaking ppl to germany

-get lebensraum (living space) for germans

-destroy communism

hitlers 7 steps to war (crascup) with dates

1935-Conscription + Rearmament

7 March 1936- Rhineland

March 1938- Austria

September 1938- Sudetenland / Munich agreement

March 1939- Czechoslovakia

August 1939- USSR and Germany pact

September 1939- Poland

blitzkrieg meaning and dates

lightning warfare sep 1940-may 1941

battle of britain, britain advantages (4)

tech-communication systems, radar signals

weapons-britain had better aircraft

tactics-luftwaffe leader wasnt very good at tactics

leadership-RAF leader- Hugh Dowding good at tech, Luftwaffe leader Hermann Groering didnt understand modern warfare

when was battle of britain

july-sep 1940

operation barbarossa plan and why he thought it would work

invade USSR for lebensraum and destroy communism

germany seemed impossible to defeat, soviet union army weaker than france, who was recently defeated by germany

why did ussr invasion fail

due to unexpected harsh weather (-40 C), germany didnt have enough resources, underestimated size and tactics of army

d-day: who invaded, where and when

USA, UK + Canada, Normandy beach in France, 6 June 1944

atomic bombs: where, when, casulties, names of bombs

hiroshima: little man, 6/8/45, 70k dead

nagasaki: fat man, 9/8/45, 36k dead

why did japan attack the us

to get land, fear that the us would stop them from taking land

why did truman approve droppings of bombs

-end war quickly

-scare soviet union

-revenge

-get moneys worth

holocaust meaning and deaths

when nazis killed european jews in wwii, 6 million jews died

anti semitism

hatred of jews

why were jews hated

blamed for killing jesus, werent ‘proper germans’

when were jews under nazi rule

1933-1941

what happened to jews whilst under nazi rule (3)

1933: germans encouraged to boycott nazi shops

-1935: german/jew relationships illegal

1938:stores owned by jews vandalised

nuremberg laws

anti-semitism laws established by nazis

kristallnacht

destroying jewish stores

ghettos

small parts of town where jews were segregated

einsatzgruppen

ss death squads responsible for mass killings of jews

genocide

killing of a particular race

final solution

final way nazis attempted to kill jews using gas chambers

how did concentration camps prepare for the final solution (4)

-timetables drawn up

-police, soldiers helped

-arrangements made for jewish people to be rounded