Germany invades USSR
Germans have German-Soviet non-agresson pact but when soviets start to advance on territories like balticstates and more- germany angry (its close to romania and they needed romania for oil)
German succses- initial

Significance

Germany couldn’t successfully invade
Major war on eastern front
German soviet tensions!!

New Order

Summary

Hitlers ideolgy that he wished would govern all of Europe
Racial Imperialism
Conquered treatment depends on “place” in Nazi Racial Herichy

Significance

Jewish people die
Concentration camps

Nazi rule in “Nordic” countries

Summary

The idea that they are superior (related to aryan race )
Puppet governments (apears Independent)
Gov work with nazis

Significance

Get naval bases
Resources

Vichy France

Summary

Part of France that was independent and worked with Nazi’s
Adopted Nazi party ideas
Lead by Henri Petain

Significance

Turned over lots of Jewish people

Henri Petain*

Summary

French general who commanded armies
Head of Vichy gov

Significance

Anti-semetic policies
Unoccupied regime south france

Free France Movement*

Summary

Political body that claimed they were the real leaders of france
Anti-nazi
Resistant movement
Lead by Charles de gaulle
Not just mainland- also North Africa (colony)

Significance

Fought with allies

White Rose Movement*

Summary

Intellecutual movement that fought against Nazi occupation
Dropped leaflets and things -propoganda
Lead by students and porfessor- (happening in germany)

Significance

Gets executed and they become Martys
Res stronger

Tito*

Summary

Leader of Yugoslav Partisans
Fight Nazizs
Guerilla Warfare

Significance

Liberated Yugoslavia
multi-ethnic socialist state in Yugoslavia

Holocaust

Summary

Extreme Racial persecution (usually jews)
Racial Mass murder

Significance

Genocide

early Nazi euthanasia

Summary

Mercy killing campaigns
Unworthy lives ollute germany- they kill

Significance

Leaders spoke out and stoped it- lead to concentration camps

Ghettos

Summary

Areas where german jews were forced to live
“Urban disctricycs”

Significance

Happened mass scale in Poland
Bad conditions- kills lots of people

Einsatzgruppen

Summary

Military death force task force that emegrged with the german invasion of ussr
Moved town to town and covertly killed groups they didnt like (jews)

Significance

Killed lots of people

Final Solution

Summary

Hitlers solution to the “problem of jews”- mass murder
Industrial killing machines
CC camps
Trans lines (get work before they die)

Significance

Concentration camps

Summary

Mass killed/ exploited for labor
People that survive ghettos taken their

Significance

Part of final solution

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Summary

Concerntration camp where lots of people killed in gas chambers
Sad day for jewis h [eopel

Significance

People die

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Summary

Underground Nazi Res groups
Attacked nazis

Significance

Surrdener- burn ghetto to the ground- take surviros to concentration camps
Prisonsors revolt- executed

Primo Levi

Summary

Jew in auschwitz who survived as a laborer

Significance

Wrote abrt his expierneces
Moral ambuity

Nuremberg Laws*

Summary

Nazi Germanies anti-semetic race laws
Made jews “different”
Striped jewish rights

Significance

Legal background for jewish killings

Wannsee Conference*

Summary

Nazi- gov people meet up
Plan final solution to German question
Heinrich Himmler (his SS)
Gestapo

Significance

Labor ideas made
Final solution dev

Japanese racial-imperial ambitions

Summary

Facist gov in japan
AnTi western bc asian better ideas
Wanted to liberate east asia from imperialization

Significance

Lead to things like invasion of Manchuria

invasion of Manchuria

Summary

Japan invades Chinese territory and occupies

Significance

Goes to farther invasion like mainland one (1937)
Italy and germany alliances

“Asia for Asians”

Summary

Propoganda that states they will get rid of western influence

Significance

Tap into national sentiment
People happy tto see westerners go

Co-Prosperity Sphere

Summary

the Japanese concept of a unified and self-sufficient bloc in the Asia-Pacific region
Sham just want jap control lol

Significance

Explotated other people for japanese war needs
Also set example for japaness liberttion groups

“comfort women”*

Summary

Sex slaves forced
Jap imperial armed forces
Occupied territories

Significance

Women die

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Summary

Us pres
Unhappy abt Japanese occupation in places

Significance

Jap idea war is inevitable

Pearl Harbor

Summary

Japanese surprise attack in hawaii islands
Fleets sink- aircraft carriers unharmed

Significance

Us want recenge- come into war

“war without mercy”

Summary

War in Pacific- japan vs america
Characteritized by violence, mutual hatred, and dehumanizing racial stereotype

Significance

Us rise as pacific power

Grand Alliance

Summary

USSR and USA pact\
Mutual distrust
Goal mutual enemies - axis brings togteher

Significance

Helped lead to WWII outcome
Military and industrial outcome is crazy good

“Europe first” policy

Summary

Defeat Hitler first and then focus on Japan
Unconditional surrdenre

Significance

Cement grand alliance

El Alamein

Summary

Battle
Defeat itaqlians and germans (by british)
They dont get North Africa

Significance

Open door to ally victory
Drove axis out of North Africa

Bombings of civilian targets

Summary

Strategic things both sides use
Mass civilian dies
Breaking morale
COnterversial

Significance

HArdening resolve instedd of surrender
They get mad lol

Battle of Stalingrad

Summary

Soviets distroy entire german 6th army

Significance

German downfall in war
Hitler say no retreat- major downfall
Germans pushed back (eastern front)
Germans startt to not want war

D-Day*

Summary

Allies invade normandy france
Lead by Dwight Eisenhower

Significance

German army controlls less and less
Germany out of italian peninsula

Dwight Eisenhower

Summary

Lead hsitories largest naval invasion
D-day
Push german inland

Significance

Germans losing lol

Warsaw Uprising

Summary

Polish underground army thinks german losing- make warsaw upring
Soviets no help
Germny destroys poles

Significance

The Polish army surrendered and then soviets contrinue advance
Polish people die- warsaw in ruins

island hopping*

Summary

Military start used by allies in pacific front-
Capture key islands
Dont capture ones w heavy defense
Moving closer to japan
General Douglas MacArthur

Significance

Lead to japanese defeat

Battle of Midway*

Summary

Island hoping campaign battle
Naval battle japan vs US lead by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

Significance

America win
Halt japan offensivw

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Summary

America drops atomic bomb
Kill lots of people

Significance

Jap surrender

atomic bomb

Summary

A weapon with incredible explisive power made by ophenhmeri during WWII

Significance

Hiroshima and nagasaki

Japanese internment camps*

Summary

Forced Japanese people (us) into internment camps
Wanted tto curb espionage from japanese people bc at war

Significance

Bad for jap people

“Night Witches”*

Summary

Soviet everyone is equal so they have women
Female vaiotors in ww2 USSR

Significance

Soviet assset to winning
Testing planes
First woemn comabt

Rape of Nanjing*

Summary

Mass murder of chinese people in Nanjing by japs
Ordered by Matsui Iwane
Second Sino-Japanese War

Significance

Capital of chinese puppet gov

American oil embargo*

Summary

American oil trade restriction with japan due to agressive imperialism

Significance

Super bad for japan bc reliance on oil
Leads to pearl harbor

human costs of WWII

Summary

Death toll is HUGE
50 mil people die kinda sad

Significance

Homeless people
Sad people
People like bad now- sick unhealthy elderly basically skeletons just die atp

internal post-war migration patterns*

Summary

Poeple move east- west
Eastern europe very war torn adn people very displaced peoples
Comm refugee

Significance

Economic rebuilding west
Germans expelled

displaced persons

Summary

Post war refugees with no home
So sad
Cncertraion camo surviror

Significance

UNRRA helps them

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)

Summary

MAde DP campos and helped them go home

Significance

Care for many people

German occupation zones

Summary

Four zones governed by allies-United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France
Punish guilty nazi

Significance

Killed them

collaborators

Summary

Non germany people who stil helped w nazis

Significance

Punished

denazification

Summary

Fins nazi things and punish
Rid of all german ideology

Significance

Numberg Trials

Nuremberg trials

Summary

internal post-war migration patterns, made by allied powers

Significance

Killed or prison
Last time allies work together

Big Three

Summary

Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill- made post war settlements

Significance

Tehran Conference

Tehran Conference

Summary

Postwar dicussion
Crush germany
USSR wants second front in german france bc he thinks USSR doing all the fighting
Winston wants indirect attack
Societ win bc Americans support

Significance