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Growing Balkan Nationalism/Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot in Sarajevo on June 28 1914. Nationalism was a maine contributedr to the outbreak of WW1. The social problems became the Balkan states focal point for the many European powers. -
Alliance system building
The central powers and the allies were the two alliances fought in World War 1. The central powers was the dual Alliance for Germany and Austria. The whole principal for the Bismarkin Diplomacy was to keep an alliance with Tsarist Russia and Austria. -
Trench Warfare
This form is of many fightling lines, containing large trenches which soldiers are mostly covered from the enemy’s fire arms and are hidden from artillery. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
The Lusitania was a British ship and on May 1, 1915 it was headed for Liverpool. On May 7, around the coast of Ireland, a German submarine smashed into the side of the boat. It only took 18 minutes to completely sink the ship and kill 1,119 of the passengers. One hundred fourteen of the passengers that died were American. This enraged the Americans and caused them to officially declare war with Germany. -
Entry of the United States- Zimmermann Telegram
With the Zimmermann telegram, Germany tried to distract the US because the US had been supplying Britain. It was sent in January of 1917. It was the German empire telling Mexico to declare war against the US. It was intercepted and decoded by British intelligence. Finally on April 6, 1917, the US declared war against Germany. -
Growing Militarization
A society organizes itself for military conflict and violence. It is related to militarism. -
Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
In 1917 The Bolshevik Revolution was when Czar Nicholas 11 took 11 million peasants to world war 1. The Russians became scared because of all the injuries and loss of lives they used to sustain. Russia was losing while trying to get ready for the revolutions. -
Treaty of Versailles & Treatment of Germany
Five years after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. The central powers with the German side of WW1 were dealing with issues among separate treaties. This took six months of negotiating to come to a peace treaty. -
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The rise of facism
This was a dictatorship that forcused on nationalism. The first facist movement was when Mussolini's Black Shirts (facists who fought with the Nationalistic Army) tried to gain power. Both Mussolini and Hitler tried to convice the people how good they were and they both had plans to help resolve the economic problems by providing jobs. -
Stalin coming to power in Russia
After Lenins Death, Two main candidates choose to follow him. The candidates we Leon Trotsky and Joe Stalin. The communist Russian party worried Trotsky was going to take Russia by force. Stalin then started making his connections with a very low profile. -
Great Depression
The Economic Downturn lasted from 1929 to 1939. This was the longest and most horrifying depression ever witnessed by the Western world. Though it originated in the United States the depression resulted in huge declines, little to no unemployment and of coarse deflation al most everywhere. -
League of Nations
The League of Nations was a intergovernmental organization the was caused as a result of the conference in paris the eventually ended the first World war. The organization was determined to maintain a world at peace. -
Spanish Civil War
This was a conflict fought in Spain that began a pronunciamento (declatation of opposition) by the group of generals under leadership from Jose Sanjurjo against the Second Spanish Republic. -
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German invasion of Poland
About 1.5 million German troops invaded Poland with land that the Germans had control of. The Germans bombed Polish airfields. In the Baltic Sea, the naval forces form Poland were ambushed by the German U-boats. Hitler thought that conquering Poland would allow for living space, or “Lebensraum.” Poland was split between the enemies. The Germans wore Polish uniforms and invaded at 8 pm that night. -
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Evacuation of Dunkirk
Codenamed Dynamo. This was one of the most crushing defeats the British army ever had to suffer. The BEF(British Expeditionary Force) made its was into Dunkirk and rescued 338,226 Allied troops. Some French and Belgian forces fought their was into Dunkirk to protect from the German attack as well. They waited and hoped that they could stick it out long enough for England to pull them off the beach. Altogether they saved about 50,000 people. -
Fall of France (Creation of Vichy France)
The French state was taken over by Marshal Philippe, who then proclaimed government contributing to the allied defeat of axis powers. -
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Battle of Britain
This was the first huge military campaign to be battled solely in the air. It was a between the German Luftwaffe and the British Royal Air Force. Britain was the last place Germany had to defeat in order to win in that point of the war. However, Britain had the most advanced defense system in the world so when Britain was winning, Hitler postponed his invasion. Germany lost more planes than Britain did because the British could land, refuel, and rearm quickly, but the Germans were too far away -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
A preventive action was what the attack was intended for, 188 U.S. aircrafts were destroyed, 2,402 americans were killed and 1,282 wounded. -
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Battle of Midway
After the success at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Navy rampaged around the Pacific and sunk British warships in the Indian ocean and hammered Darwin in Northern Australia. However, this wasn't as successful for the Japanese. This battle was important because the US destroyed the Japanese Navy and the Japanese lost some of their aircraft carriers. The Allies had won the Pacific. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
This was a turning point for WW2. Hitler lost a lot of men and supplies which caused the German army to be set back. Stalingrad was the center of Russia's communications and manufacturing. Hitler and Stalin were enemies, so it is believed that he ordered taking Stalingrad because he hated Stalin. Hitler told General Paulus, along with the Fourth Panzer Army, to take over Stalingrad so that they could protect the oil fields in the Caucasus. -
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Battle of Guadalcanal
After six months, the US defeated the Japanese. After the Battle of Midway, it required Japan's army to rearrange their thoughts for expanding. The Americans won the Battle of Guadalcanal and it ensured Australia that they were safe from Japanese invasion. It also ensured that the sea route from Australia to America was safe as well. -
U Boats
They were military submarines operated by Germany, Mostly in World War I and World War II. They were enforcing a naval blockade against enemy shipping. -
D-Day
Also codenamed Operation Overlord. 160,000 allied troops landed along the coastline in Normandy, France to fight Nazi Germany. Germany was strategically bombed. This was another turning point in World War 2 because this was the largest invasion of its time. It was also the first real threat to Germany. Before this, all the battles were away from Germany and Germany was winning. The invasion of Normandy was also helpful because it stopped Russia's communist influence on Europe. -
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Bombing of Tokyo
The night of March 9-10, General Curtis LeMay decided to bomb Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, and Nagoya using incendiary bombs which would start fires and burn the land in which they were dropped. The bombs were dropped from altitudes between 4,000 feet and 9,000 feet. That night there were already heavy winds and 310 B-29s (heavy bombers) attacked Tokyo urban areas with about 1,665 incendiary bombs. Fifteen square miles of the urban area was burned out. This was one of the most destructive bombings. -
V-E Day
"Victory in Europe Day." This was a huge day because Hitler surrendered and Germany was out of the war. -
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima was bombarded August 6, and three days later on August 9, Nagasaki was bombarded. This was the first use of the atomic bomb. Ninety percent of Hiroshima was wiped out and about 80,000 people were killed. In Nagasaki, about 40,000 people died. It ended the war against Japan. This also brought about a debate about the use of nuclear weapons. -
V-J Day
"Victory in Japan Day." Japan gave into the Allies. This ended World War 2.
