World War 2

National Socialist workers (shortened to Nazis)

hitler got in power of this

got elected of a position

then locked out all ohis partners and started taking over the government and becoming more and more extreme

this is when Jews became seen as a race

another nation on the side of germany was coming up and almost did well in the 20s

1936 Olympics

  • held in Germany

  • took down all anti-sematic propaganda due to city exploration until after the Olympics

Hitler then re-militarized reiland in 1936

started building a navy

  • anglo-german naval agreement in 1935

secretly building an airforce in the soviet union

Germany annexed austria in 1938

  • didn’t want to at first

Munich Conference

  • 1938 met with france, britain, and italy

  • surrender city land in czechoslovakia to Germany

night of broken glass

  • nov 9

  • murder of a Nazi official

    • said it was a Jew attacking a Nazi

  • Discrimination of Jews became more and more prevalent (false prejudice created and fueled from hate)

stalin-hitler pact 1939 (all blow in 1939)

  • showed stalin’s support of

  • then, Germany invaded Poland from the west

    • Stalin netered from the East

  • France and Britain declared war

    • WW2 started in September

Germany wanted to be a ruler with japan in the east and the US in the west

US Reactions to the war

Neutrality Acts in US

overall were opposed by FDR

  • 1935

banned sells of arms to all other nations at war

Americans should not get on ships going into war zones

then banned any

can trade with Europe but no ammunition

  • must pay with cash and must come get it, no credit and no going over seas

1939

  • lifted ban on selling arms with any nation

  • Britain was the only one with access to the seas (controlled it)

  • so was meant to help the allies

America First

  • is not anti-facist as most people think

  • founded in 1940 by Kingman Brewster at Yale

  • alice roosevelt supported them

The Phony war

Operation Barbarossa

  • a new type of war

  • shoot poeple in large groups, cover them with dirt, and keep going

Attack on Pearl harbor

US would become the great arsenal of economy before pearl harbor attaack

  • said they wouldnt fall to the war, before the attack, for this readon

atomic bomb created in 1945

Klaus Fuchs

  • Soviet spy to keep stalin updated

David Greenglass

  • US spy for atomic bomb

  • the manhattan project and etter from albert einstein

  • hiroshima bombed shortly after

    • 90-166K deaths

  • nagasaki bombed after no surrender

    • bombed several times during the war

apparetnly the bombings couldnt have been avoided

invasion or blockade wouldve led to even more deaths

  • isalnd, starvation

tollon civilians

  • became major targets in several countires

  • jews, japanese

deportation. madagascar

crimes of Japan

mass rape by japanese to eastern europeans (rape of nanking)

Unit 731 camps

lethal biological warfare of japanese army

live surgery without going to sleep

killed, poisoned all who were imprisoned to get rid of effort

  • competition of behead 100 people first

red army of stalin 1945 to join US effors againt japan