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| Japans Invasion of Manchuria |
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| After a bad earthquake in 1923, and they are hit by the Great Depression because America becomes Isolationist. There is a workers strike. After they won the war with Russia Japan believes they have a destiny to expand and take over China. They need to expand for more food and more living space. They believe China was only put there for Japan to take over. |
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| September 18 1931 The Japanese blow up one of thier own railways in Manchuria and blame it on the Chinese. Japan then invades Manchuria and establishes the puppet state of Manchuko. |
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| War between Italy and Ethiopia |
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| March 1 1898 Italy wanted to expand its empire as there wasnt a lot of room in Italy. The Italians took up a war with the Etiopians and lost badly, some of the POW's were mutated. Italy wanted Revenge. |
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| Was the leader of the Ethiopians in the first war with the Italians. |
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| Italian invasion of Abyssinia |
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| 3 October 1935 Benito Mussolini wants Revenge and an Italian state in Africa. He invades Ethiopia a second time. wanting to expand like the big Roman Empire. Mussolini is looking for new subject for the King, and oil and other riches. The British and the French allow Italy to invade because there is still memories of the WWI. The Italians drop bombs on Adwawa. Hailie Salassie was getting the Ethiopians ready for war. The Italians win and The King of Italy becomes an Emperor. Italian Somaliland and Etriria are added to Ethiopia to create Italian North-East Africa. |
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| Leader of the Ethiopians, he got them prepared for war with Italy. he was seen as a Messiah. |
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| Created the National Facist Party in 1919. He threatened to stage a march on the government if he was not given the position of PM. This brings italy from a monarchy to a dictatorship. He then decides to be called Il Duce in 1925. |
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| Germany Enters the Rhineland |
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| 7 March 1936. Germany marches into the demilitarized Rhineland. The Rhineland then becomes a fortified border. Britain and France do nothing to stop it and Hitler's Confidence is raised. |
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| July 17 1936 - 1939 The Nationalists perfrom a coup on the Communist republic. This starts a civil war and the Germans support the Nationalists, led by Fransisco Franco, and the Soviets support the communist republic. Is an example of how ideology is important. and shows Germany and USSR against eachother and Germany can try out thier Luftwaffe. Facist Italy and the Nazi's bomb Guernica. |
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| Leader of the Spanish Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. |
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| July 7 1937 a small squirmish on a bridge between Japanese and Chinese soldiers. Both sides want war so this leads to the Sino- Japanese War of 1937 - 1945. |
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| 1937-1945. Chinese Nationalist Leader Shsaingka Chek, believes that his Western allies will help him. Japan attacks Shanghai on the 13 August 1937. And then continues to be the persecutor of the Rape of Nanking Dec 1937-January 1938. |
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| Dec 1937-January 1938. Japanese Rape the city of Nanking. Biggest mass rape in history. Killing contests, no woman was safe. Live burials. There was also torture and mutation. Thousands of women were killed and raped. |
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| German Anchluss with Austria |
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| 12 March 1938. Hitler was Austrian and Austria was a German speaking contry. Hitler desired that these two counties would combine. It was outlined in the Treaty of Versailles that Austria and Hungary were not allowed to join. If Austria wanted to be with Germany then it should be. Austrian leader Karl Schnigg disagreed with this. There was a plebicite so the population could vote if they wanted to join Germany on the 10 of April 1938. 99% of them said yes. Two days later on 12 of April 1938 The German army walk in. |
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| was the leader of austria, he opposed the though of Austria and Germany uniting. |
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| September 1938. To decide the fate of Czechslovakia. Chamberlain and Deladier are there at the meeting, as well as Benitio Mussolini. The Czechs are not represented at the meeting. Deladier, and Chamberlin sign the appeasement on 30 September 1938. Chamberlian believes he had created peace, while Deladier feels it was a bad decision. Annexation of the Sudetenland begins October 1 1938. |
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| German Occupation of Bohemia |
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| 15 March 1939. The Germans are not welcomed into Prague as, unlike the Sudetenland this area is Czechs. SS Oficer Reinhard Hemlich becomes the "protector" of Slavakia and it becomes a puppet state. |
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| A german town in Poland that is regarded as a "Free City". Hitler wants it, Lipski and von Ribbentropp think about giving it to the Germans. Yosef Beck denies this claim. Very important to the Road to WWII. Britain and France say that they will back Poland up if there is a war. 1939 |
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| Soviet - Nazi non agression Pact |
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| August 23 1839, a somewhat truce and a document of how they will divide Poland. |
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| Gliewitz Incident (Operation Himler) |
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| 31 August 1939. SS officers dress as Polish officers and say that they attacked a radio shack. They take an inmate from a concentration camp and leave him there so it looks liek Poland started a war. |
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| A new type of war. a Lightening war that was built on the style of hitting hard and fast with the panzers. It also used the element of suprise. Poland would be the labratory for this new style of fighting as the landscape is very flat. No Stalemate and destorys the enemy. |
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| Polish commander that is set on not loosing any Polish land. He spreads out the Polish army in a long thin line that is easily broken by the Nazis |
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| The plan to attack poland. 1 September 1939, A northern group will come in through the Polish corridor in the North and take over Northern Warsaw. Army group South will come through the south and take over south and east, and come from Lvov till Warsaw. This plan begins at 4:45 am. |
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| A line of 40 army groups along the border with France to Protect the german border as he wants most of his troops in Poland. |
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| Soviet Invasion of Poland |
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| September 17 1939. The soviets take over eastern Poland as was discussed in the Non-agression pact. Warsaw falls on the 27 of September 1939. |
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| April 1940 - May 1940 The mass killing of Polish soldiers by the NKVD in the Katyn Forrest. USSR did not come clean about this until 1991. 22,000 Polish POW's were killed because of thier class. In 1943 the graves were found by the Nazi's and they accuded the Soviets. |
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| Red army in Eastern Europe |
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| The Red army invaded places like Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. June 15 They invaded Lithuania and June 16 1940 they conquer Latvia and Estonia. Propoganda shows them keeping these Baltic states safe, however that is not the case. There is so much terror that the Baltics welcome the Nazis when they invade. |
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| The quiet war along the Seigfried Line, where there were no squirmishes. Known as the drole deguerre by the french "the funny war" |
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| November 30 1939 - March 10 1940. The Soviets want to take over some Land in Finland. The Finns reject this and a war ensues. The finns use skis and camoflauge to fight the Russians. They also create the Molotov Cocktail to mock stalin and the forgine officer Molotov. The Finns sign armistice in Moscow on 12 March 1940. The Finns loose some land but stalin is embarassed. |
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| Hitler wants Scandanavia as it has many ports and iron ore. The people in Scandanaavia are very aryan as well so it helps when it comes to Ideology. Operation Weser is the name of taking over Denmark and Norway. |
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| 9 April 1940 at 5:25 am Nazis invade Denmark as the Denmark ignored intelligence reports. The Danish king does not resist and 2 hours later it becames a protectorate state. By 1943 there is some resistance to the anti-semitism in the country. As for Norway they are invaded on the same day but put up a fight, 9 of June they sign an armistice. Vidkun Qvisling, a Norwegian is put into power of the puppet state but the third reich leader Josef Terboven is behind him making every move. |
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| Is the name given to the invasion of France. Plan Yellow begins on the 10 of april 1940. They use many tanks and go through Sedan. |
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| leader of the French Military, who thinks that like in the first world war that the Germans would go through Belgium. He is wrong, although he is optomistic about the end ofthe Phony war. |
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| problems with the French Military |
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| They were stretched out too thin. They were still using horses to transport military. Still using first world war defense tactics, and not being on the offense. The Phony war also lessened the the preperation for war. No anti-aircraft weapons. |
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| Was the French plan to stave off the German Mienstien Plan. |
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| Plann to how to attack France. The Big thrust through the Ardene Forest. 44 Panzer divisions. Speedy and hard thrust through the forrest. |
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| Commonly known as the Miricle of Dunkirk 27 of May 1940 - June 4 1940. British boats saving 300,000 French and English soldiers to bring across the channel to safety. Difficult because there were sunken ships in the harbour. Two narratives, British navy, and the merchant ships |
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| Beggining with the bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940. Germany then occupies the Netherland 15 May, and on the 17th the Neterlands surrender. There is some resistance but they pay for it. |
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| Is the name of the Opertation Givin to the attack on Britain. |
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| PM of Britain from May 1940-1945. he was criticle about appeasement, and didnt like to do deals with dictators. May 13 1940 He makes his blood sweat and tears speech. |
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| Was the leader of the German Luftwaffe. He was hitlers #2 Man, a collecter of stolen art, and was very corrupt and was a flyig ace in WWI. |
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| The Luftwaffe in the beggining wanted to not hurt civillians, and just injure the RAF. 1. They were unprepared, as they had just come from France 2. The timing was too tight, not enough time to get across the channel with its fall weather 3. Lack of sufficiently trained pilots 4. The Luftwaffe had very small loads and were not as speedy as the RAF 4. They did not understand how the British had Radar |
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| September 1940 Goering decides to start bombing civilian areas like London in order to crush British morale. Lasted from Sept 7 1940 - May 10 1941. It ended because Hitler needed the planes against the USSR |
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| Included, gypsies, Jews, mental illness patients, asocials, Poles, lesbians, prostitutes, gays, Russian POW's, and those with a disability. |
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| The Germans Weakness was that they had underesetimated the RAF planes, and had gotten all the intelligence on them wrong. |
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| Leader of the SS in the Holocaust. |
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| Passed 1936 not allowing Jews to get married to a non Jew, and Jews cannot marry other Jews. If there was someone who was no Aryan, thier citizenship which held thier human rights was taken away and made them subjects of the state. |
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| The aim for Jews to emigrate to somewhere else in order to ruin the Jews in the economy. This was not solved as no one took them in. They didnt want to leave because they considered themselves German. Many also did not have the money to leave. |
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| Nov 9-10 1939 a nation wide Pogrom. a jew had killed a minor German officer and Germany retaliated dramatically by attack jews, burning synagogues, many Germans ransacked thier Jewish neighbours homes. There is a mentality that the Jews owe the Germans. 33,000 Jews are arretsted. They are also not allowed to make insurance claims and are forced to pay it all back. |
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| Mainly in Poland, none in Germany. A number of Ghttos are set up for Jews to live in behind walls. Inside there is typhoid, starvation and unsanitary living. If you were asked to work you knew you were goin gto die. The "problem" was that the Germans would have to remove the corpses and not enough Jews were dying. |
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| The Nazi's thought about the Deportation of Jews to Madagascar as there is no supplies there. This would not work as there are "too many Jews " and it would cost too much to transport them and Madagascar is under French territory. |
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| The SS began doing Mass shooting of Jewish people at close range. The Nazis would make the Jews dig thier graves and then shoot them while they were naked so they would fall into the grave. this was "inhumane to the perpertrator" as they would have body parts on them, and they would recognize people they knew. They were also "wasting bullets" |
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| A way where mental illness patints were killed. Go into a van and realese Chelmno. Not everyone died, and it was using fuel that would have to go from Warsaw. |
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| 20 Jan 1942 near Berlin where the Nazi officials did numbers and tallies of how many Jews they would have to kill. 11 million. |
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| Is the final solution of the death camps. Only 6 where you would actually die. Auschwitz-Berkenhow, Tirblenka, and Sonabar are just to name a few. Ziklon B, rat killer, was used in showers to kill them. Thousands of Jews could be killed in a day. this was also "the most humane for the purpertrator" |
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