Economic Plans Huge collective farms Starvation & rationing Pushed industrialization more Reign of...
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- Economic Plans Huge collective farms Starvation & rationing
Pushed industrialization more Reign of Terror Purges removed
enemies & undesirables Show trials always guilty Millions
killed or put in camps
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- Benito Mussolinis Fascist Party Appointed Prime Minister
Suspended elections Began conquests Ethiopia
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- Served in WWI injured Hated Versailles Treaty
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- National Socialist German Workers Party Nov. 1923 3000
followers tried to overthrow Fail, jailed Wrote Mein Kampf Wanted
German Homeland Aryan Race Blonde hair/blue eyes
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- 1932 made by Hindenburg Suspended free speech and press Brown
shirts Nazi thugs quiet opposition 1934 Pres too = Der Fuhrer
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- Secretly began rearming Built autobahn Army began taking over
land Allied with Italy = Axis Powers
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- Several parties fought for power Nationalist lead by Gen.
Franco Dictatorship Germany helped Franco
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- Hitler & Stalin sign Non-Aggression Pact 9/1/39 Hitler
invades Poland 9/3 UK & France declare war German blitzkrieg
lightening war Fast, concentrated air and land attack
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- Poland fell, war stopped Sitzkrieg sit down war Maginot Line
French fortification line
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- 4/9/40 Attack Denmark & Norway Went around Maginot 6/22
France surrenders to Germany Vichy France Nazi control Bottom - Gen
de Gaulle & resistance Allies France, UK, USA
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- Luftwaffe attacks London Royal Air Force (RAF) attacks Berlin
Heavy bombing, much death, destruction Britain hid in subway Kids
shipped to countryside
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- 1920s recession Military began influencing politics Invaded and
took Manchuria from China Puppet State
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- 1937 invaded China Rape of Nanjing 100,000 killed US wanted
Japan to stop UK helped China fight back 1940 Japan joined
Axis
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- 1930s Neutrality Acts Prevented trade with countries at war
Europe and Asia fell to war US watched
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- Revised Neutrality Acts Gave aid to UK and France Most wanted
all aid short of war FDR wins 3 rd election Lend-Lease = send aid
now, get back later
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- Sunday, December 7, 1941 @ 7am Radar saw planes Dont worry
After 3 hours 2400 killed 200 planes destroyed 18 warships sunk
12/8 US declares war
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- Selective Training and Service Act 16 million called GIs
Government Issue 25,000 NA code talkers Tuskegee Airmen All AA
units 350,000 women
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- Office of War Mobilization Stopped consumer goods Started war
goods Ford B-24 bombers Paid by taxes and bonds
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- Shortage of consumer goods Food stamps & rationing Food
needed for troops Victory Gardens Spent money on other things
Baseball, music, movies
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- US & UK fought U-Boats in Atlantic 20 U-Boats = Wolf Pack
Sunk 175 ships in June 1942
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- Feb 1941 Hitler sends Gen. Rommel Desert Fox US Gen Eisenhower
fought back Nazi lost in 1943
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- US invaded Italy next under Gen. Patton Mussolini arrested, new
gov. set Nazi pushed out by April 1945
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- German blitzkrieg & Luftwaffe Nazi began to take over
Stalin called for help, US did Battle of Stalingrad (Sept 1942) Red
Army took advantage of winter Losses: Germany 33,000, Red 1
million
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- RAFs carpet bombing 3000 planes 1000s of civilians killed
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- Operation Overlord by Gen. Marshall D-Day June 6, 1944 Ships,
planes attack Normandy, France Able to liberate France Battle of
the Bulge Small US units took West Europe
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- Soviets fought to Berlin in 1945 Hitler refuses to leave city
Underground bunker with wife Suicide April 30 th Germany surrenders
May 8 th VE Day
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- Feb 1945 Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Split Germany in 4 Berlin
too (deep in USSR) Stalin promised to end war with Japan Didnt keep
promise
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- Aryans Germanic People Semites Middle Eastern/Jews
Anti-Semitism hatred of Jews Hitler believed in Aryan
superiority
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- 1933 Anti-Semitism became law 33-45 6 million Jews killed Other
groups (6 mil) suffered too
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- Jews lost citizenship, fired, sell business Define Jew 3 of 4
grandparents Sarah and Israel Forced to wear Star of David
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- Most Jews believed they would endure November 9, 1938 SS
destroyed all Jew stores, houses, temples Night of Broken Glass
Forced to ghettos
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- Mobile killing squads in Russia Jews and Communists dug own
graves Shot by Nazi soldiers Wannsee Conference 1942 Wanted Final
Solution
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- Zyklon B pesticide Shower rooms that expelled gas 6 camps in
Poland became Death Camps Used cattle trains to move people
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- Auschwitz & Dachau = worst 2 lines Work or Die Gas Chamber
-> furnace Alive shaved, tattoo, work
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- Hard work, little food, disease, brutality Torture and medical
experiments 12,000 gassed a day
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- Some Jews fought back Worked for a moment US knew in 1942 did
nothing Troops found camps in 1945 Photographed everything! No idea
what they were seeing
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- 24 Nazi leaders tried for crimes against humanity 12 got death
12 got death Israel still trying Nazi criminals
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- Japan took over much of East Asia POWs tortured, marched for
days Ship battles, many attacks Fought on islands Island hopping
Kamikazes suicide planes Japanese in US put in internment
camps
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- Two major battles Iwo Jima 25,000 deaths, 27 medal of honor
Famous flag picture Okinawa huge allied fleet, fought kamikazes
50,000 dead
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- To develop atomic bomb Truman made decision to drop to save
lives 8/6/45 1 st bomb on Hiroshima 80,000 killed, 90% of city
leveled August 14 th Japan surrenders