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Benito Mussolini
Prime Minester Benito Mussolini of Italy was a Fascist. Fascism is the political view of an authoritarian and nationalistic system of government. His aggressions we're simply invading Ethiopia and conducting the March on Rome. -
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, was a Marximus ,which in turn lead to his political belief, Communism. Stalins most agressive action was the Great Purge. Statin spent two years killing the Comunist Party, government officials, repressing peasents and Red Army leadership, establishing country wide police survalliance, imprisioning "saboteurs" and executing arbitrary executions. -
Emperor Hirohito
Emperor Hirohito of Japan did not have a political party he was Emperor and above them. The he did have aggressions such as the invasion of Manchuria, pulling out of the league of nation, signing the Tripartite Pack and of course bombing Pearl Harbor. -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler, Fuher of Germany, political stance is National Socialist German Workers Party, also know as Nazi Party. He out of all of the World War II dictators had the most defenses. His offences consisted of joining the Third Reich, pulling out of the League of Nations, building an army and sending troops into Poland. -
War Production
Military production during world war one included artillery, ammo, tanks, airplanes, and submarines. Billions of dollars was used on war production from 1938-1945. -
Conscription
Volunteer armies were needed in world war 2. Britain reintroduced conscription at the start of the war and was abandoned at the end of the war. -
Propaganda
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Financing the war
Countries financed the war by deficit spending, increased taxes, borrowing from other countries, and war bonding. -
Occupations
World War 2 began with the German invasion and subsequent occupation of Poland on September 1st, 1939. Germany later moved to occupy many other surrounding areas like France and Czechoslovakia. Puppet governments were established in these occupied zones. Nazi rule was strict and violent. Curfews were established, ridiculous taxes imposed, and anti-semitic policies enforced. The civilians in these areas were oppressed brutally by the Nazis. -
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Support of the war
Germany supported the war by using rations to save food for military. America had war bonds and rationed at home too. Also, through weapon production. -
Resistance Movements
While brutal occupation by the Nazis broke the spirits of many, it inspired some to rebel. Civilians in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and The Netherlands rose up, but perhaps the most well known and influential resistance movement occurred in Nazi-occupied France. The French Resistance sabotaged German vehicles, cut phone lines, and disrupted trains to slow the flow of communications and supplies among the Germans. They also assassinated prominent Nazi officers and supplied information to the Allies. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain refers to the air battle between the German Luftwaffe and the British Royal Air Force. The German air campaign began on the 10th of July 1940 and lasted until October 31 1940. German bombing of British cities, especially London, are called The Blitz. -
Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg, meaning "lightning war," is a strategy involving speed, surprise, and sheer military power. The German army utilized these tactics extensively in the war. Blitzkrieg methods were crucial to the invasion of Russia and France and the bombing of Great Britain. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust is the name given to the systematic extermination of the Jewish population in Europe by Nazi Germany during the second World War. Anti-semitism was a major platform of Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany prior to the war. Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany's loss of the previous war and Germany's crippled economy. Institutionalized anti-semitism began with the banning of Jews in certain public places and progressed to outroght extermination via concentration camps. -
Holocaust (Cont.)
The most infamous concentration during the Holocaust was located in Poland and was called Auschwitz. An estimated 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis, roughly two thirds of the Jewish population of Europe. The most common form of execution was death by gas chamber. The Holocaust ended with the defeat of Nazi Germany and the liberation of concentration camps by the advancing Red Army and US Military. -
US Entry into the War
Prior to December of 1941, the United States had maintained neutrality in the war. An unprovoked attack by the Japanese on a Naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii brought the US in on the side of the Allies. The US declared war on Japan the very next day, and Hitler declared war on the US only a few days later. -
Philippines-Bataan Death March
Death march in the Philippines of some 66 miles (106 km) that 76,000 prisoners of war (66,000 Filipinos, 10,000 Americans) were forced by the Japanese military to endure in April 1942, during the early stages of World War II. Prisoners were usually decapitated but also beaten, shot and bayoneted. Many of the prisoners who made it to the camp later died of starvation or disease. Only 54,600 prisoners made it to the camps, and an estimated 30000 died either during the march or shortly after. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Between 4-7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the U.S. Navy decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy Midway, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable. Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare." -
Confrence of Tahran
During the conference of Tehran the terms of the invasion of North France, operation overload, we're agreed upon. The Soviet Union agree to distract Hitler on the Eastern Front. The Soviet Union also agreed to declare war on Japan, only after the Allies victory over Germany. The Soviet Union was also granted access to Port Darien and Port Arthur. -
D-Day
D-Day, codenamed Operation Neptune, refers to the Allied (Primarily American) seaborne invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe on June 6th 1944,beginning with the beaches of Normandy in France. This was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The defending Germans sustained casualties estimated up to 9,000 and the Allies up to 11,000. The Allies gained a foothold in Normandy that allowed them to launch the rest of their Campaign through Europe. -
Liberations
As the Allies pushed from the West coast of Europe to the East, Nazi-occupied cities were liberated. Collaboration between the US military and the French Resistance led to the liberation of Paris August 25, 1944. Poland and other Nazi-occupied areas were all liberated upon the defeat of the Germans in 1945, and all prisoners of war and victims of concentration camps were freed. -
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, lasting from December 16th 1944 to January 25th of the next year, was one of the most intense and casualty-heavy battles of the war. As the Allies moved through Belgium on their way to Germany, the German Army attempted a surprise attack in the Ardennes region to slow their advance. After a long and difficult battle, the Germans ultimately lost and had depleted the last of their military resources. Casualties from the battle are estimated to be over 160,000. -
Confrence of Yalta
The Confrence of Yalts was the second meeting of Prime Minister Churchill, Soviet Premier Stalin and President Fredrick D. Roosevelt. They all had the common goal of requiring Germany to surrender and that the country would be occupied by their country and France after the war ended. Stalin stipulation was that if he entered the Asian war against Japan if the land that the Soviet Union lost during the Russo-Japanese war and it was agreed upon. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The BIJ major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during WW2. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the goal of capturing the entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields, to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. This five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II. -
Race for Berlin
Nearing the end of the war, there was a race among the Allies to capture Berlin, Germany's capital city. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin encouraged two of his field commanders, Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev, to compete to be the first to enter Berlin. The Americans, British, and French were also moving towards Berlin from the west, but ultimately changed course to surrounding areas as the Russians encircled Berlin. -
V-E Day
V-E Day, short for Victory in Europe Day, marks the surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies and the end of World War II in Europe. Immediately upon the surrender, massive celebrations occurred in all Allied countries. People flocked to the streets and rejoiced in France, Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. V-E Day is still celebrated in many European countries on the 8th of May to this day. -
Confrence of Postdam
During the conference of post and the division of Germany was confirmed. They agreed to Germany between America Britain Russia and France. They also agreed to revise Germany, the Soviet Union's and Poland's boarder to give the Soviet Union Moreland. Lastly agreed to urge countries to shortly stop expulsing Germany. -
Dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During WW2, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed 80,000 people and tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing around 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of a new and most cruel bomb. -
V-J Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victory over Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. -
Occupation
Germany was occupied by America, France, Britian, and the Soviet Union. Berlin its capital was split in two one half allies and the other Soviet. From 1945 to 1952 the United States occupied Japan. -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were the trials of Nazi war criminals. Nazi party officials, high-ranking Military Officers, lawyers and doctors were trialed. They were accused of crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Out of 185 people indicted 12 were given death sentences, eight got life in prison and 77 were granted varying prison terms. -
Battle of Guadacanal
WW2 Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. With Japanese troops stationed in this section of the Solomon Islands, U.S. launched a surprise attack in August 1942 and took over an air base under construction. Reinforcements were funneled to the island with a series of land and sea clashes, both sides endured heavy losses to their warship contingents. However, the Japanese suffered a far greater toll of casualties. -
Pearl Harbor
Right before 8 on December 7 1947, hundreds of Japanese soldiers attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. Destroying 20 naval vessels, 8 huge battleships and over 300 planes. More than 2000 Americans were killed and another 1000 were injured. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked congress to declare war on Japan; congress approved with only one vote not to. 3 days later Japanese allies declared war on the U.S. and congress reciprocated. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was designed in the hopes of restoring European confedence in thier economic future as individuals and a whole. From 1948-1951 America channeled over 13 billion dollers divided among seventeen county in hopes of helping them rebuild thier industrys and perticapate in global trade. -
Battle of Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought during 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other. Japan tried to strength its position in the South pacific but the U.S learned of this and retaliated.
