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Hitler's Rise to Power
Hitler founded the NAZI party
Wanted to gain support from workers and nationalists
NAZI party used a lot of sybolism (flags, badges, their own newspaper and police force)
Hitler considered Germans to be the superior race
He wanted more living space for Germany and its people
Mission to take the land of Poland and Russia -
Nazi Strong Arm Tactics
The storm troopers were used to bully opposition parties
i.e., beat up Jewish people, threatened Hitler's critics, and voters for the opposition
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Policy of Appeasement
Hitler re-armed the Germany military forces despite the treaty of Versailles (peace treaty at the end of WW1
1936 re-occupied Rhineland
1938-1939 took over Czechoslovakia
Britain and France did not act against Hitler because they did not want to risk another big was
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The Nuremberg Laws
The NAZI party announced new laws that instituionalized racial theories prominent in NAZI ideology
Deprived Jewish people of political rights
These laws did not define a Jewish person as a person with religious beliefs
Anyone who had three or four Jewish grandparents was considered a Jewish person
Jewish people were not allowed to marry or have sexual relations with a german person -
Anschluss
Anschluss is the term used when Nazi Germany united with Austria after the first attempt in 1918 with was voided because of the treaty of Versailles. -
Munich Conference
The Munich Conference that was held in Germany took place to permit Germany the control of parts of western Czechoslovakia; Sudetenland. Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy came together at this conference to make this decision. Hitler was interested in this area becasue of the three million German speaking community. -
Slitzkrieg
Although prepared and ready to fight on both ends of the war, no major battles occurred for the first 7 months of the war. -
Invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland occured from September 1, 1939 to October 6, 1939 and it marked the beginning of WWII. Germany took over all of Poland using Blitzkrieg and invaded from the north, south, east, and west the morning of September 1. -
Blitzkreig
Blitzkreig (lightning war) was a war tactic used by the German is WWII. It was used extremely effectively causing French and British armies to be pushed back to the beaches of Dunkirk. -
Sitzkrieg
After a year of signing the Munich Agreement which states that Germany is unable to expand to other territories, Hitler Violates the agreement by invading Poland. THis resulted in both Britain and France to declare War on Germany and vise versa. Instead of attacking, the 2 allies waited for the enimies' first attack and began to prepare for it by buying weapons from the US and becoming allies with Belgium and Holland although the 2 countries wanted to stay neutral. -
The Battle of Atlantic
The Battle of Atlantic started on September 1939 and ended in 1945 with the Germans defeat. It was World War 2's longest battle. In 1940 because of these horrible attempts of forays or sudden attacks, they had changed up their strategy mainly on the U-Boats, which had a great success. -
Miracle at Dunkirk
In May,1940 the French and British had been deteated by Germany in the battle of France. Over 350,000 men including the entire British army and some of the French and Belgian armies were trapped in the port of Dunkirk.The British decided to try to evacuate them by sea. Over the ten incredible days from May 26 to June 3 they accomplished the miracle at Dunkirk. The navy put out a call for help from civillians and boats from all over britain began to help. -
The Battle of Britain
The Battle had begun on July 10th, 1940 and lasted many months. German and British forces had one of the most very important battles. The German wanted to invade Great Britain but in order to do that they would first have to destroy Britain's Air Defense. On June 17th, 1940 the French had signed an agreement to quit WWII leaving Britain standing alone against the German Army. While the Britain had a very good aerial defense Germany had very poor intelligence. -
The Battle of Atlantic
In 1941 the British had started gaining an advantage over the Germans by receiving 50 American Destroyers but they had to allow the US to access the British bases. The allied had captured a German submarine which gave the allied a huge advantage to gain information and the position of German U-Boats. In 1943 the allied hadgained a lot escort aircrafts and long-range aircrafts to cover the Atlantic gap. The German U-Boats were withdrawn from the Atlantic and the Allied had won. -
Battle of Moscow
This battle took place on October 2nd 1941. As Moscow was Russia's capitol, Germans believed that after the capture of Moscow the whole nation would collapse. At first it had been a great success on the German's part but catastrophic for the Russians. However, the Germans had also suffered in their attacks on Russia. The weather was especially not kind to them as the soldiers had to fight the frostbite from the cold. -
Pearl Harbour
The Imperial Japanese Navy began attacking the American naval base with their fighter planes. The battle lasted for 2 deadly hours which resulted in 20 American navel vessels destroyed including eight battleships (3 damaged, 1 grounded, 4 sunk, and 2/4 recovered), and close to 200 airplanes. The Americans had lost more than 2,000 soldiers and sailors while another 1,000 were injured. This lead United States to enter World War 2 -
Dieppe
Despite having 3 allies, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, the German Army was still able to the Victors of the Battle of Dieppe. The raid had began around 5:00 and lasted 5 hours with the allies being forced to retreat. Many of the objectives such as wanting to destroy Germany's coastal defences were not met. This was a lesson for the allies that helped them be successful in later movements such as improvements in their landing techniques. -
Battle of Stalingrad
In September 1942 took place a battle that was a great turning point in WWII. Historians considered the battle of Stalingrad the bloodiest battle with nearly 2 million casualties. Stalingrad was an important target for Hitler and his Army as it was Russia's centre of communications in the south as well as being a centre for manufacturing. This battle stopped the German's advance towards the Soviet Union. This battle was significant because the whole German army was lost and were taken prisoners. -
Operation Husky
After defeating Italy and Germany in the North African Campaign, the United States and Greta Britain, who were the leading allied powers they planned ahead for afinal defeat of Nazi Germany. the plan was to move against Italy, secure the central Mediterranean and divert German divisions from the northwest coast of France where the allies planned to attack in the near future. However, this did not go as expected as it only did minimal damage to the German army. -
D-Day
Learning from previous mistakes, the allies decided to plot a plan in which would mislead the Germans into thinking of a different location of the invasion. This resulted in the Germans into thinking of adifferent location of the invasion. This resulted in the Germans fleeing North-western France and became the stepping stone towards ending World War 2 once and for all. -
D-Day
Considered to be the largest military assault in both land and water D, 156,000 soldiers of the American, British, and Canadian forces landed on 5 beaches near the coast of France's Normandy Region. This invasion is one of history's ;argest military assaults in both land and water which was only possible through having better planning and stratagies.
