WWII begins:


Adolf Hitler believed he could build a great civilisaiton.
Hitler proposed that germany be able to revise the unfair provitisions of the treaty of versaillse that had ended WWI
France Great Britan and Italy condemed hitlers moves.
They were having a great depression
Hitler became convinced that the western states would not stop him.
Apesmant-baced on the belef that if european states staisfied raesonable demends of dissatisfied states the dissatisfied states would be content.
Italy welcomed them eventualy
Italy them invaded Ethiopia in 1935 with the support of german troops.
later hitler and Musolini formed the Rome-Berlin axis.
Germny gets Japan into this as well
Hitler demanded the sudatenland in Northwest Czechoslovakia be given to Germany.
After The Munich Conference the British prime minister Neville Chamberlain announced peace.
Austrya
1938 hitler annexed Austria.
Anschluss
the merger or annexation of austria by germany.
In march1939 hitler invaded western Czechoslovakia.
In August of 1939 Hitler and Stalin sighed a non aggression pact.
On september 1, 1939 germany invaded polland
Great Britain and France declared war on Germany.

The United States, Japan, and the Pacific:


The first step was to conquer parts of China.. Like Manchuria (manchukuo)
Emperor Hirohito and Hideki Tojo believed in the superiority of Japan.
December 1937 Japanese attack the capital city, nanking
for 6 weeks the japanese burned, looted, murdered, raped, and destroyed nanking's inhabitants
december 7th 1941
"a day that will live in infamy."
Franklen Delano Roosevelt
Purl harbor was home to the largest chunk of us navel fleet in the united states
Dwifht d. Eisenhower is commander of forces in europe.
first is foceses is liberation of france- oberation Overlord, of d.day
Normandy, Fance
Operation Overlord-the begining of the liberation of france
160,000 only 9000 were killed
begining of the end of hitler by august of 1944 northern france was free of Nazis
Us commander in pacific was Douglaus macarther
The United states would island hop through various small pacific islands
Us fleet commander Chester Nimitz us Japanese Naval Commander Yamaomoto.
Us victory was turning point
The attomic bomb was developed as part of the manaten project
presedednt Hary truman had the final decision he had just reluctently taken over for roosevelt
in august 1945 the attomic bonbs were droped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
little boy was dropped on Hiroshima Fat man was dropped on Nagasaki
emperor gave up

The Holocost:


Aryans were the "master race"
Thought Jews were cause of economic problems
Nuremgurg Laws were the laws that prevented rights from jews and marage between Jews and non-Jews
Kristal Nacht- night of broken glass they destroyed jewish buildings and synagogues.
1939 violence increses.
Hitler segrigated jews in the Ghettos.
Final soluiton- a program that focused on extermination of Jews
Nazis belived they needed to purify the world. All the "subhumans" needed to be exterminated
SS hunted them down in the streets and hurded them into the concentration camps
everyone was taken
camps were located in Germany or poland
the final stage was in 1942
Nazis build gas chambers to exterminate Jews
6.5 mill Jews died
1948 The sovereign Nation of Israel