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Nazis sent thousands of Jewish people to concentration camps
1)large rooms and throw the bodies in one bug grave.
2): it is important because the Nazis killed millions of people for Hitler. This famous event would be known as the Holocaust, one of the saddest events in history. -
Hitler Goes against the treaty of Versailles
1) Hitler built up the German military and sent troops into Rhineland. Germans hated the Versailles treaty, so they followed him
2)Hitlers betrayal to the treaty caused him to gain power over Germans -
A conservative general named Francisco Franco led a revolt
1)A conservative general named Francisco Franco led a revolt
Hitler and Mussolini sent arms and forces to help Franco
2)Leaders around the world tried to gain power over their people and led them into WWII -
Air raid on Guernica
1)there was an air raid on Guernica, a small Spanish market town
Nearly 1k innocent civilians were killed
2)Leaders around the world tried to gain power over their people and led them into WWII -
Franco created a dictatorship of Hitler and Mussolini
1)Rolled back earlier reforms, killed or jailed enemies, and used terror to promote order
2)Franco takes control over Spain, important b/c his leadership ways were similar to Hitler’s and Mussolini -
Europe Plunges toward war
1)German forces invaded Poland
Two days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany
(World War II has begun)
2)started the second world wide war, b/c every large country was in on the war -
Nazi forces stormed into Poland, revealing the large power of Hitler’s blitzkrieg.
1)The blitzkrieg utilized improved tank and airpower technology to strike a devastating blow against the enemy.
2)It showed the power that Hitler had and how easy it would have been to kill several people -
Hitler took over Norway and Denmark using the blitzkrieg
1)Hitler took over Norway and Denmark using the blitzkrieg, soon after he took over the Netherlands and Belgium
2)Hitler quickly gained power over large areas which caused many people to be under his control, and have no say in how things went -
Hitler forced the French to sign the surrender documents
1)Germany had signed the armistice, ending WWI
Following the surrender Germany occupied Northern France
2)Hitler continuous to extend his territory and make it larger even tho he promised to stop seizing power over other territories -
The Japanese airplanes bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
1)The attack took 2,400 people’s lives and destroyed battleships and aircrafts. Then The US declared war on Japan.
2)This event caused several deaths in the US, and Japan and the US finally went to war. -
this year marked the turning point o the war, the allies won wars on four fronts
1)this year marked the turning point o the war, the allies won wars on four fronts – The Pacific, North Africa, Italy, The Soviet Union, and France – to push back the Axis Tide.
2)Because the allies overcame all these places -
The “Big Three”
1)Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin-agreed to focus on finishing the war in Europe before trying to end the war in Asia
2)This was the game plan and Roosevelt and Churchill feared that Stalin would dominate Europe, so they all came together in agreement -
Hitler launched a new offensive
1). This time he aimed for the rich oil fields of the South, but yet his troops only got as far as Stalingrad
2)Hitler tried to take over even more land but he could not continue to expand because his troops were weakening and not able to finish the job -
The Japanese gained control of the Philippines
1)The Japanese gained control of the Philippines, killing several hundred American soldiers and as many as 10,000 Filipino soldiers during the 65-mile Bataan Death March
2)The death march was described as unbearable heat, dust, starvation, thirst, flies, filth, stench, murder, torture, and corpses. -
The US was producing twice as much as all of the access powers combined
1)meanwhile allied bombing hindered Germanys production rate
2)This is important because Oil production became scarce so prices of products rose greatly. -
Allies chose this day as D-Day for the invasion of France
1)On the night of June 5, allied planes dropped paratroopers behind enemy lines, and later that night thousands of ships ferried 156,000 allied troops across the English Channel.
2)D-Day was an important event during WWII that marked when US invaded France, troops prepared for D-Day way before the actual invasion -
MacArthur began to fight back
1)MacArthur began to fight back against Japan to regain control over the Philippines
2)This is important because Douglas MacArthur gradually moved toward Japan, and this would cause another fight -
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met again in Yalta
1)Once again, the Big Three planned strategy in an atmosphere of distrust. Churchill and Roosevelt were in agreement but Stalin wanted something different
2)This event came to be known as the Yalta Conference, the three leaders agreed that the Soviet Union would joint the war against Japan within three months of Germanys surrender -
World War II had finally ended
1)! In Europe it ended with an invasion of Germany by the Western allies and the Soviet Union.
2)This event is the most important one because it finally ended on this day. -
The Japanese showed they would fight back
1)The Japanese showed they would fight back, many young Japanese men took jobs as pilots that would crash purposely into US territory as a way to destroy
2)This is important because Japan was willing to fight to the death instead of surrendering to the US -
Britain could no longer afford to defend Greece,
1)Britain could no longer afford to defend Greece, Greece Stalin backed communist rebels who were fighting to overthrow the monarchy
2)This event is important because Greece would be in a world of hurt without Britain help. -
The Truman Doctrine was created
1)Truman stated “I Believe that it must be the policy of the US to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures
2)this is important because the Truman Doctrine’s main idea had to do with containment, limiting communism. The Truman Doctrine would guide the US for years to come. -
The United States and 11 other countries formed a new military alliance called NATO,
1)The United States and 11 other countries formed a new military alliance called NATO, which stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization
2)This is important because it was a promise to protect each other if one country got attacked. -
The Soviet Union responded to the NATO by forming its own military alliance
1)The Soviet Union responded to the NATO by forming its own military alliance, the Warsaw Pact.
Which consisted of seven satellites in Eastern Europe.
2)This is important because it is ironic because alliances started WWII and now at the end of WWII they thought it would be smart to make more alliances to prevent another war from happening which in the end might cause one -
Germany surrendered and the war officially ended in Europe
1)the next day on May 8, 1945, this came to be as V-E Day
2)This event marked the day there was victory in Europe and according to the Big Three the Soviet Union would join the war against Japan, after Germany surrendered
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