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Reviewing Chapter 27
Rise of dictators -
Germany — Hitler — Nazism (National Socialist
Party)
Italy
— Mussolini — Fascism
Russia—
Stalin (after Lenin) — Communism
• Can you
briefly explain how/why they tame to power?
PRELUDE TO WAR
I. Japanese
expansion (Manchuria, China)
II. Italian
conquests (Ethiopia, Albania—tiny countries)
III.
German aggression
A.
Annexation of Austria
B. Czechoslovakia
•
Munich Pact (Sudetenland given to Hitler by England (Chamberlain)
and France
• Pact
violated in six months as German occupied rest of Czechoslovakia
C.
Invasion of Poland Sept 1,1939—start of WWII
Sitzkrieg—
six-month “stall”
WAR IS DECLARED
Germany
invades Denmark, Norway, (Churchill becomes
PM). Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg----then FRANCE
(Evacuation at Dunkirk (300,000 troops evacuated to
Britain by military and civilian craft)
• all these
countries fell in less than ten weeks!!
Attempt
to take England (Operation Sea-Lion)
• Battle of
Britain (London Blitz) — the little RAF repels the German Luftwaffe
US — from
Isolation/Neutrality to sympathy
Lend-Lease
Act (1941)—US could sell, lease, lend, etc. to any country
Growing
tensions between US & Japan over Japan’s conquests
Hitler attacks Russia in (June 1941)
Pearl
Harbor—December 7, 1941. Declaration of war next day, US is IN
TIlE WAR.
MacArthur
— gives up Philippines, but vows “I will
return’ — he did.
Doolittle
Raid — Jacob DeShazer —
Mitsuo Fuschida
Italy
jails Mussolini in July 1943 when Allies invade (Germans stay and
fight)
D-Day
(Normandy Invasion) — June 6, 1944. Largest
amphibious invasion in history.
Hitler
commits suicide (April 30, 1945)
V-E
Day May 8, 1945; V-J Day September 2,1945
Holocaust
— 6 million Jews (and others) purged in the interest of the Aryan
“Master Race”
Nuremberg
Trials
Yalta
Conference — “BIg Three:” Churchill,
Roosevelt, & Stalin
• parceling out
of Europe
• concessions
to Stalin
• Cold War
begins
• divided
Germany
• Berlin
airlift
United Nations
•
Security
Council
•
Secretary-Gcneral
• World Bank