Download Interwar Years and WWII

When World War I ended
Hitler moved to Germany and
joined this party
The Nazi
Party
Hitler quickly rose in rank within
the Nazi party. Why did they
choose Hitler to be their leader
in 1921?
Hitler may have gotten the take
over idea from someone else. In
Italy, who was the man who
marched on Rome, with his Fascist
party, and was given control of
the government by King Victor
Immanuel III?
1922
Mussolini
Unlike Mussolini, Hitler was not
given power. His revolution was
foiled by police and he was
arrested and tried for treason.
How long was he sentenced to
prison for?
Five years
Hitler would only end up serving a
little over a year. While he was
serving his time he wrote a book
which expressed his political
philosophy. What was the name of
this book?
1923
Who did Hitler blame in Mein
Kamph for being the reason
Germany lost World War I, for
pushing communism on the German
people, and for taking over the
Germany’s economy?
The Jews
In Mein Kamph Hitler also
wanted to give the German
people “Living Space” by taking
over the land of this country-
When Hitler was released from
prison in 1924 the economy of
Germany had vastly improved. The
Nazi party struggled to get
members elected into the German
parliament. However, his fortune
would change as this crash
occurred in America on October
29, 1929-
October 29th, 1929
The stock market
With the Great Depression
spreading world wide, Germany
began to suffer. The
unemployment rate in Germany
would serge to this percentage
30%
In 1931, Japan invaded this
country
Manchuria
What did the League of
Nations do in response to
Japan’s action
nothing
Hitler pointed out that this
treaty after World War I
punished the German people
unfairly
The Treaty of Versailles
According to the Treaty of
Versailles, the Germans had to
claim responsibility for the war,
pay massive amounts of money to
France and Britain, and dismantle
their
military
In 1935, after seeing that the
League of Nations did nothing to
Japan, Italy invaded this country
1935, October
Ethiopia
In July 1937, knowing that the
League of Nations would do
nothing to them, Japan decided
to attack this country
1937, July
China
In March of 1938, Hitler
determined that it was now his
turn to build an empire. His first
step was to annex the country of
his birth. What country was it?
1938, March
Austria
Following the annexation of
Austria, Hitler set his sights on
an area of Czechoslovakia in which
three million of its inhabitants
were of German origin. What was
the name of this area?
Sudetenland
England and France objected to this. A
meeting with Hitler was scheduled and it
was determined that Hitler could take
the Sudetenland as long as an
international commission would decide the
future of other disputed areas. Hitler
agreed and England’s prime minister
Neville Chamberlain said that he had
achieved “peace with honor. I believe it is
peace for our time.” What was the name
of this meeting
1938, September
Munich Agreement
In 1938, Hitler decided that all Jews of Polish
descent needed to go back to Poland. Over 17,000
Polish Jews were arrested and their possessions
confiscated. They were then dropped off at the
border. When a 17 year old boy staying with his uncle
in Paris found out that his father was one of the
Jews being removed, he went to the German embassy
and shot someone out of rage. The Nazi’s used this as
an excuse to launch a pogrom against the Jews.
Throughout Germany and Austria, synagogues and
other Jewish institutions were burned, Jewish stores
were destroyed, and their contents looted. At the
same time, approximately 35,000 Jewish men were
sent to concentration camps. What was this night
known as?
November 9–10, 1938
Night of Broken Glass
(Kristallnacht)
Hitler, fearing another two front
war as in World War 1 conducted
this agreement with Stalin. This
pact made both Germany and
Russia neutral between one
another and they promised to
split Poland.
1939, August
Non- Aggression Pact
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1 ,
On September
1939, Germany
invaded this country. Two days
later France and Britain declared
war. This marked the beginning of
World War II.
1939, September 1st
Poland
Meaning "lightning war”, it was
first used by the Germans in
World War Two and was a tactic
based on speed and surprise and
needed a military force to be
based around light tank units
supported by planes and infantry
(foot soldiers)
Blitzkrieg
By June 14, 1940, this city fell to
the Nazi’s. Eight days later,
France was also under the control
of Hitler.
1940, June
Paris
With France under his control,
Hitler initiated Operation Sealion.
His goal was to take over England.
This would be known as
1940, June
The Battle of Britain
The nightly bombings by the
Luftwaffe on the cities of
England would be known as this
The Blitz
The Tripartite Pact was a pact
signed in Berlin, Germany on
September 27, 1940, which
established the Axis Powers of
World War II. What three
countries signed it?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
This German Jew immigrated to the
United States when Hitler became
Chancellor of Germany. He warned the
President Franklin D. Roosevelt that the
Nazi’s were trying to develop an atomic
bomb. He also urged the president to
begin enriching uranium.
FDR took Einstein’s advice, and a secret
program to develop an atomic bomb was
implemented. The weapons-development
portion of this project was located at the
Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.
The project was under the direction of
Major General Leslie Groves of the US
Army Corps of Engineers and developed
by Robert J. Oppenheimer. What was the
name of this project?
1941
The Manhattan
Project
The German bombing of Britain
convinced FDR that he needed to help
the English. He went to Congress and
pushed them to pass a bill that would
allow the US to loan weapons to
countries whose defense was
considered a vital interest of
American security. What would this
law become known as?
1941, March
The Lend Lease Act
After conquering the Balkans and
planting the Nazi flag on the
Parthenon in Greece, Hitler was
ready to move in on Russia. The
Germans completely surprised the
Russians with their blitzkrieg
invasion. After a few weeks they
were 500 miles inside of the Soviet
Union. What was the name of this
invasion?
Operation Barbarossa
Without any warning, Japan carried out
an air attack on an American naval base in
Hawaii on December 7, 1941. In two
hours, 2400 Americans were killed, 18
ships were sunk or damaged, including 8
battle ships. Roosevelt described
December 7th, 1941, as “a day which will
live in infamy.”What was the name of the
base?
1941, December 7th
Pearl Harbor
“The Final solution for the
Jewish Question” was that all
Jews should be
annihilated
This battle is considered to be the
turning point of the war in Europe. It was
as far as the Germans would go into
Russia, and from that point on they would
be pushed back to Germany. What was
the name of this battle?
July 17th, 1942
– February 2nd,
1943
Battle of Stalingrad
While the Battle of
Stalingrad was going on,
Stalin was still trying to get
Churchill and Roosevelt to
invade France. What country
did they decide to invade
instead?
September, 1943
Italy
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On June
1944 the invasion
codenamed Operation Overlord
began. British, French, Canadian,
and American troops fought their
way onto a 60 mile stretch of
beach in Normandy. What is the
common name used today for this
invasion?
1944, June 6th
D-Day
Who was the Commanding
General in charge of the DDay Invasion?
Dwight Eisenhower
After the Battle of the Bulge,
Franklin D. Roosevelt met with
Winston Churchill and Stalin at
this conference. It was agreed
that Germany would be divided
into four occupied zones. Stalin
agreed to allow free elections in
the Eastern countries that the
Soviet Union now occupied
Yalta
While America was closing in on
both Germany and Japan, what
happened to President Roosevelt
in April, 1945?
1945, April 12th
He died
from a
stroke
Two weeks later, on April 28th, 1945,
while the Germans were retreating from
Northern Italy, some Italian resistance
fighters ambushed some of the German
trucks. They found the Italian leader
aboard one of them disguised as a
German soldier. They pulled him out, shot
him and hung him the next day at the
town square in Milan. Who was the Italian
leader?
1945, April 28th
Mussolini
Two days later, with the Russian
Army closing in on his secret
bunker in Berlin, this leader of
Nazi Germany gave cyanide
tablets to his wife (of two days)
and his dog, and then shot himself
1945, April 30
The date when the World War II
Allies formally accepted the
unconditional surrender of the
armed forces of Nazi Germany
and the end of Adolf Hitler's
Third Reich.
1945, May 8th
Despite the warnings of the
Potsdam Conference, the
Japanese refused to surrender.
President Truman made the
decision to drop an atomic bomb
on this Japanese city
July, 1945
Nagasaki
The Japanese still did not
surrender, Truman had a second
atomic bomb dropped on this city
Hiroshima
The name chosen for the day on
which the Surrender of Japan
occurred, effectively ending
World War II.
1945, August 15
V-J Day
International organization founded at the
end of World War II to help arbitrate
international disagreements before they
led to wars. Unlike the League of Nations,
this organization requirement that
member states of it security council
should make available armed forces to
serve as peace-keepers or to repel an
aggressor
1945
The United Nations
Trials held by an international
tribunal to try Nazi War criminals
for starting the war; for acts
against the customs of war; and
for the murder and enslavement
of civilians
1946
Nuremburg
Trials
Both the Nazi’s and the Japanese
had violated the standards in
international law for humanitarian
treatment of the victims of war.
What are those standards known
as?
1864, 1882, 1929, 1949
Geneva Conventions,