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Rise of the Nazi Party (or the holocaust)
Army veteran Adolf Hitler, frustrated by Germany’s defeat in World War, which had left the nation economically depressed and politically unstable. -
Rise of the Nazi Party (or the holocaust #2)
Hitler assumed the leadership of the organization, which by then had been renamed the Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party. -
Rise of the Nazi Party (or the holocaust #3)
Elections, they captured 230 out of 608 seats in the “Reichstag,” or German parliament. -
Appeasement
This day in 1938, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sign the Munich Pact and seals the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace. -
Japanese Invasion of China (Rape of Nanking)
Japanese Imperial Army marched to china's capital of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers within the city. The six weeks of carnage would become known as the Rape of Nanking.(genocide of the 20th century) -
German Invasion of Poland
At 4:45 in the morning there were around 1.5 million German troops to invade Poland and all along its border (1,750-mile) with German-controlled territory. The German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields. And German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Hitler gave orders to invade Poland on August 26, but on August 25 the attack was delayed when he learned that Britain had signed a new treaty with Poland to promise military support should it be attacked by anyone. -
Appeasement #2
Germany, under the leadership of Hitler and he did many aggressive actions which violated the Treaty of Versailles. The policy of giving into germanys demands was known as appeasement. -
“Blitzkrieg” (lighting war)
“Blitzkrieg” (lighting war) is a way to attack at random with the military. That was what Hitler did in WW2 because he thought that the war would go a lot quicker (failed and was proven wrong (little joke)). A German term for “lightning war,”. Blitzkrieg is a military to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and concentrated firepower. -
Dunkirk Evacuation
The nine-day evacuation, the largest of its kind in history and an unexpected success, saved 338,000 Allied troops from capture by the Nazis.On May 10, 1940, the Germans launched their attack against the West, storming into Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg. -
Appeasement #3
This was used to keep hitler from going to war but he went to far with it and tried to take poland over. In the end appeasement lead to WW2.
