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germany good with Frace I Britain hitler threatened Austria with invasion which led to coercion with Austrian chancellor putting Austrian-Nazi in charge OF Austria later he annexed austria with no consequences - hitler next wanted to destroy (zechoslovakia and he expected French I Britain to not use force to stop him Czechoslovakia -wanted more of Czech land and threatened war L>France was supposed to defend czech but wouldn't be France refused to -hitler announced the rearming of germany plan hoping there wouldn't be much forceful opposition from British and French -Anglo-german naval pact: allowed germany to build an army Occupation of the Rhineland -hitler then took over (zechslovankia and made it part of nazi germany -hitler (again defying treaty of versailles) sent german troops into rhine land pissed off France but british calmed france -> boosted -- in prague, nitler said he'd be best known german hitlers confidence and boosted german trust in hitler Munich Confrense. meeting with British, French, germans, Italy met all of hitlers wants (apeasment of hitler) Poland Hitlers Attack In West - he wanted a land that wasn't his due to treaty of Versail-britain and Frace wouldn't go on the offensive -britain Finally realized the threat and said they'd defend Poland- "Phony War" = winter of nothing yet during war time -hiller still thought no one would defend poland. - it resumed April 9, 1940 with another Blitzkrieg against Denmark and Norway - he was kinda worried so he made "no Force" pack with stalin. - that gave him Freedom to attack poland - British drivened out and Norway surrended -one month later german attacked netherlands, belgium, I France - sept 1 germany invades poland; Sept 3 Britain + France declare war sept 17 soviet union sent troops to defend germany → WAR AGAIN Path to war in Asia - netherlands Fell in five days, belgium army surronded on May 28, british and French trapped in Dunkirk - June 5, germany attacked southern France. mussolini declared war on France -Japan defeated earlier I explerencing severe internal tensions. - so Japan made a navy and armed forces infivenced gov Japenese Goals in East Asia - Japan seized land they weren't supposed to condemned by ・germany now in control of west and central europe but britan had not lost yet The problem of Britain legue of nations →→ left legue of nations So hitler planned to invase Britain. - chinese vs japan over land; war not intention but no compromis - hitler wanted to make peace with Britain but Britain refused -Japanese raped and killed thousands of Chinese in a sieze - Japan started cooperating with Nazi Germany but that fell through so germany so they looked to Southeast Asia but that got them in trouble with America The Course of WW2 -hitler told his generals that the right thing doesn't matter only winning does this lead to most distructive war Victory and stale mate - went into poland using Blitzkreig warfare - poland surrended in 4 weeks - Sept 28, 1939: germany and soviet union split poland -germany took over in the air, they almost won but they changed tactics so britian took ball control of the air → germany lost I Invasion of Britain post poned Invasion of Soviet Union -hitler hoped if soviet union crushed then Britan would be done war -mussolini attacked greece but invasion was quickly stopped. -hitler then defeated yungslovia and greece in 6 days and prepared for easy win against soviet army he greatly underestimated them and stressed out and declared war against V.S (went from european problem to global) The War in Asia Soviet Offensive in East - Dec 7, 1941 Japan attacked U.S. at pearl harbor → next day U.S -hitler gambled and went on offense instead of defense declared war on Japan 3 days later hitler declared war on U.S. -he was defeated in the battle of kursk by the soviets -Japan thought Americans were soft but after Japan attacked - hitler blamed the whole war on the Jews then killed himself on April 30 them the U.S teamed up with evrope and china to stop Japan-may 7 germans surrendored and war over Turning Point In War Defeat of Japan -Grand Alliance defeated axis Dower Leveryone else L>germany, japan, italy - Britain, U.S, soviet union allianced Finally because common enemy, and they all agreed to keep fighting over politics till they win -hitler kept advancing till they were stopped at Egypt Battle of Stalingrad -lots of death on both sides -hitler announced that he won but later was surrounded and forced to surrendor -hitler realized he wasn't gonna defeat soviet army. Battle of Midway -America attacked Japan. the allies were on offensive - Japanese started to lose The last years of War - after taking sicilly, allied groups started invading italy. -rome defeated in June by the allies. Allied Advances in West - America dropped the (new) atomic bomb on Japan -Japan surrended on August 14 I WW2 Finally over Plans for Aryan Empire -Heinrich Himmler: bellever in Nazi Ideology I he was in charge of german resettlement in the east plans. Levacuated "inferior" slavic people and replaced them w germans -allies tricked germany into thinking they were coming from France but instead they came from normandy and broke defensive lines - allies forced germany to the soviet -very willing to kill millions of people no problem (Use of Foreign Workers - labor shortages in germany → Forced mobilization of labor policy. 3 mil died |-had 4 million soviet prisoners used for heavy labor -brutal recruitment ways resistance against nazi Resistence Movement -in fast the brutal treatment of the natives →→strong resistance - hitler's policy of slavic people being less than →→led to people joining guerilla Forces Resistence Movement in Nazi Europe - people spied, killed, fed info to the allies = antı nazi northern-charels de Gaulle: leader of free french movement even women Joined as messagers, bomb planters, assasinations, running underground newspaper etc. •Resistance in Germany. The New Order in Asia. -White Rose Movement: professor & students handing out pamphlets- japan was on the defensive in the occupied parts of Asia against Nazi they were all arrested - Japanese officials promised independent gov under the Japanese. but Of course japan officials have the real power -the resources from the colonies were exploited for war resources -Japanese soliders killed, raped, and looted Great Britain Home Front The Halocaust -jews sent to destroy the superior aryan race Early Nazi Party -promoting emigration of germany Jews -dark warning about Future of the Jews - Madagasker Plan discussed; basically shipping all the jews to madagasker but it was impractical The SS and Einsatzgruppen -SS responsible for the Nazis "final solution" to the Jew "problem" |-basically needed another industrial revelation -Reinhard Heydrich leader of SS and responsible for "Final solution" - Food consumption ↓ 40%. Grounded up iew and put them in ghetto poland cities -women worked in factories and mines Lykilling units; rounded up jews to assasinate 1-women working in industry ↑ 60%. The Death Camps -the gov used total mobilization and used the post war patriotic -systematic annihalition in death camps; jews rounded up, shipped like cattle to poland, killed -most effective way was gas chambers designed like showers to increase cooperation -after they were killed the bodies were either cremated, used to sell (like hair), or used for medical explerements The Other Holocaust -everyone doing war work, 55% of men armed I women taking over agriculture jobs for men - to increase food production everyone encouraged to grow food. Soviet Union -outside of the camps 9-10 million Jews were killed by shooting, starvation, or overwork - outside of the camps 3-4 million jews killed in slavery -nazis especially singled out homosexuals Feelings of the people Front Line Civillians -bombing used against nonnuman military targets, enemy troops, CIVIllian populations (Luftware Attacks - British Cities subject to nightly bomb attacks from the germans Bombing Of Germany - the British Thought: bombing → destroy germany →victory precision bombing of war industry by Americans Atomic Bombing of Japan -First atomic bomb created in 1945 -bombs effect was super deadly and destructive; post bomb radiation - west has no sympathy for soviet Union also killed many Aftermath of the War -all this was because of the nazi racial belief that the aryans are superior so they killed and enslaved the people in their way The Costs WWZ -21 million sollders died, 40 million civillians died - people were "displaced" (ejected from germany and shipped to poland) - estimated total cost su trillion Allied War Confrense -victory of the allies was followed by cold war which stemmed From differeces between soviet union and America Confrense at Tehran - confrense at tehran: meeting of stalin, roosevelt, I church hill -In November 1943 to delide Future of war with germany. -Yalta Confrense -everyone knew germany about to lose -V.S 100ked to soviet union to help against japen -united nations created and set to meet in April 1945 Intensyfing Differences Emergence of cold war -Soviet Union mad about their treatment in the west -only common thing between west and soviet was defeating nazi -now that thats done all the differences and tensions came to surface Potsdam Confrense -US demanded free elections in east but soviet union refused -west saw soviet union communist policy as negative so they sent -the world divided AGAIN!!!