Download World War II ( 1939-1945)

World War II ( 1939-1945)
1. Treaty of Versailles
- One of the peace treaties to __end WWI______
- Other central powers on the side of Germany had to sign
______other treaties______________
- As part of this treaty, Germany had to:
a. accept sole responsibility ___for causing the war___
b. _____to disarm__________
c. make substantial ____territorial_____concessions
d. pay ______reparations_______ to certain countries that
had formed the Entente powers ($33.0 billion in 1921,
today it would be $400 billion dollars)
2. The Russian Civil War led to the creation of the Soviet
Union. After ______Lenin’s_________ death,
______Stalin_________seized power in the USSR.
3. In Italy, ______Benito Mussolini_______________ seized
power as a fascist dictator promising to create a "New Roman
Empire."
4._________Adolf Hitler____________, after an unsuccessful
attempt to overthrow the German government in 1923, became
the _______Chancellor of Germany_______________ in 1933.
5. Road to Holocaust:
• 1933- first ____concentraion______ ____camps______
opens
• 1933- Nazis Boycott of____Jewish______ __owned______
____shops______, burn books in Germany and ___________
___Nazi________ declared official party of Germany; all
other parties banned.
• 1934- ____Hitler_______ ___murders________ anyone in
office that opposes him. On “the night of the long knives”
more than ___1,000_________ are ____assassinated____and
others are removed from positions of influence
• 1934- Hitler combines the offices of president and chancellor
and assumes the title of ______Fuhrer______ (German term
for ___leader______).
• 1935-Adolf Hitler denounces the disarmament clauses of the
Versailles Treaty
• 1936- ____Gestapo____________ (German police) is placed
above German Law.
6. Holocaust
• The genocide of approximately __6 million________
____European____________ ___Jews_________ in WWII.
• Could also be defined as: ____Nazis' systematic murder of
millions of people in other groups, including ethnic Poles,
Romani, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people
with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and
other political and religious opponents________
• If using the above definition, death toll was between
__11_____ and __17________million people.
• ____concentration______ _camps_____ were established
where inmates were used as slave labor until they died of
exhaustion or disease.
- German physicians used concentration camps for the
extensive use of human subjects in medical experiments
- Although many were killed in mass shootings or by other
means, they usually died in gas chambers.
7. Invasion of Ethiopia
• October ___1935________- May ____1936_________
• Fought between armed forces of Kingdom of Italy and
Ethiopian Empire
• End result: military occupation of Ethiopia and its annexation
into the colony of __Italian East Africa__________.
8. Japanese invasion of China
• When: ____mid 1937__________________
• Between: ___Japan and China_______________
• End result: Japanese take the city of __Wuhan___________
which further encourages their expansion into ___Asia_____.
9. Japanese Invasion of USSR and Mongolia
-When: July _____1938-1939____________
-Between: ______Japan and USSR_____________
-End Result: USSR defeats ___Japan__________.
Embarrassed the ____Japanese_______ government favor
the anti-American plan proposed by the
_____________Japanese Navy____________instead.
10.
European occupations and agreements:
- France and Britain concede parts of Czechoslovakia to
_____Hitler________, in exchange for no more territorial demands
-Germany and Italy forced Czechoslovakia to cede additional
territory to _______Hungary and Poland______________.
-March 1939 __Germany______invaded the remainder of
Czechoslovakia
-France and Britain guaranteed their support for
______Polish________ independence;
-when Italy conquered Albania in April 1939, the same
guarantee was extended to ____Romania and Greece________
-Germany and Italy formalized their own alliance with the
_________Pact of Steel_____________________
-Germany and the ___Soviet Union_______signed the
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
11. War Begins:
•
September 1939- Germany and Slovakia attack
____Poland____________.
• Following the invasion of Poland and a German-Soviet treaty
governing Lithuania, the Soviet Union forced the Baltic
countries to allow it to station _______________________in
their countries
• November ____________- Finland rejected territorial
demands and was invaded by the Soviet Union
• June ____________- the Soviet Armed Forces invaded and
occupied the neutral Baltic States
• February 1940- Soviet Union and ________________
entered a trade pact
• April 1940- Germany invaded ________________ and
_______________
• May _____________-Germany invaded France, Belgium, the
Netherlands, and Luxembourg
• Throughout this, the United States remained _____________
11.
Allies:
Axis:
12.Pearl Harbor
• Japanese attack United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor in
Hawaii on _______________________
• Resulted in:
– ______________aircrafts destroyed
– _______________were killed
– ______________injured
– ______________________entry into the war
13. D-Day
-On June 6, _______________(known as D-Day), the
Western Allies invaded northern France These landings were
successful, and led to the defeat of the German Army units in
France.
-Allies continued advances on ________________
-December 16, 1944- Germany made a desperate last attempt
to take the ______________.
• On July 11, 1944- the Allied leaders met in Potsdam,
Germany to discuss terms of _______________
• Japan continued to reject the Potsdam terms, the United
States dropped ____________________on the Japanese
cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• German surrender took place in late April and early
May________________.