Ww1

Unit 10-The second world war

By luciaana

  • Japan Occupies Manchuria

  • Italy took possesion of Ethiopia and in Europe Albania

  • Germany enters the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan

  • Adolf Hitler's Secret Memorandum

  • Hitler remilitarised the Rhineland violating the terms of the Treaty of Versailles

  • Germany entered into the Rome-Berlin Axis

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    Italy and Germany took part of Spanish Civil War

  • Japan invaded China

  • Germany occupied Austria

  • Germany demanded Czechoslovakia hand over Sudetenland

  • Munich Conference convened by Hitler following protests

  • Rome-Berlin Axis is renewed under the name Pact of Steel

  • Hitler seized the Danzig Corridor, causing GB and FR to pledge their military support

  • Hitler signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact with Stalin

  • Hitler invaded Poland after Nazi-Soviet Pact

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    Battle of the Atlantic (Ger vs.GB to cut off supply lines)

  • Germany invaded most of western Europe

  • Battle of Britain (Germany bombed British ports and cities)

  • Jews in Poland were moved into ghettos

  • Germany Invaded Yugoslavia and Greece

  • Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa and attacked Russia- USSR joined the Allied Forces vs Axis Powers

  • Japan destroyed US fleet in Pearl Harbor+US entered war

  • Beginning of Jewish massacres in USSR and eastern Europe

  • USSR and US enter war- US stopped Japan in the Pacific (Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal)-started reconquering occupied territories

  • British defeat the Germans at El Alamein (North Africa)

  • Nazi leaders plan "Final Solution"

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    German assault on Stalingrad (Hitler´s first major failure)

  • German African Corps conquered North Africa

  • Allied Army (General Eisenhower) landed in French Africa and defeated the French in Tunisia

  • Peace Conferences:Tehran conference

    Churchill,Roosevelt and Stalin-Military measures to speed up end of the war

  • Soviets went into the attack taking back Ukraine, ending the siege of Leningrad

  • Normandy landings by British and American Troops

  • Atomic dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Peace Conferences: Yalta

    Denazification and partition of Germany to Austria+ Creation of UN

  • Peace Conferences:Postdam

    Leaders; Atlee, Truman and Stalin: return territories annexed by G, separate Austria, punish Nazi leaders

  • Both Allied Armies occupied Germany-met at the river Elbe

  • Hitler suicide

  • Germany

  • Japan surrendered- 2WW is over

  • Paris Peace Conference- Not signed with Austria until 1955

  • Allied occupation ended