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Apr. 1939- M annexes Albania by Greece in 3 days. Fall 1940- M sends troops to Egypt in Greece _for Suez Canal). Fails b/c Greece is back up by GB. Loses Ethiopia in the process. Sept. 1943- allies go across N. Africa and conquer penisula. M forced to resign. |
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Mar. 1939- annexes Austria (Aushplutz-treaty)(homeland) Sept. 1939- H invades poland, starting the war. Annexes Danzig. F and GB join the war Apr. 1941- H conquers Balkan penisula. Turkey remains neutral. |
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| France constructed a long bumper through the black forest to keep out Germans in the 1920s. That failed. The Germans just went around it. |
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| passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Roosevelt in Aug., 1935. It was designed to keep the United States out of a possible European war by banning shipment of war materiel to belligerents at the discretion of the President and by forbidding U.S. citizens from traveling on belligerent vessels except at their own risk |
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Aug. 1939- Von Rippertrop (G) and Molotov (Stalins buddy) decided to split Poland. for more 'lebensraum'- or living space. |
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Sept. 1938- Representives: Chamberlain (GB), Daladier (f), Mussolini -signed agreement saying Hitler could have Sudetenland (Czech). This never happened. |
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Aug. 1941- Roosevelt and Churchhill meet in a boat and sign a nonofficial charter saying that countries should be able to choose what type of gov't they want. |
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| early 1941- authorized president R. to send materials to the Britain. |
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1936-1939-conflict in which the conservative and traditionalist forces in Spain rose against and finally overthrew the second Spanish republic. -For Germany and Italy the Spanish civil war served as a testing ground for the blitzkrieg |
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Aug-Nov 1940- Luftwaffe v. RAF GB- Leader- Goering. Had better planes, but less of them. Also had radar -began with a blitz. bombing from germany at night -first major failure of Germany |
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Nov. 1942- Feb. 1943- in winter. R wants stalingrad to remain free. Takes 91,000 POWS. -G was met by Red army |
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June 6th 1944- first day of Operation Overlord (attempt to free europe from nazis) through normandy. August-went through Paris, freeing them too |
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Dec 1944- last german offensive to regain land. -allies pushed back towards rhine (orginal territory) |
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| May 8th 1945- Victory in Europe!! |
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Sept. 2nd 1945- end of war in Japan. (unconditional surrender) -signed aboard USS missouri |
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-June 1941- Hitler attacks Soviet Union withouth declaration of war. -created new 2000 mile long front |
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| May 1942- Rommel kept the nazis from the suez canal. He did a fine job, but H took away his troops and he could not work any longer. H blamed him and exhiled him to Berlin. The replacement turned out to be like retarded. |
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| 1940- defense and evacuation of the British and Allied forces that had been separated from the main body of the French defenses by the German advance. |
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Battle of Coral Sea- australia battle of midway- near Japan guadalcanal- near japan -japan wanted all of these and southward |
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-On February 4th to 11 February 1945 the Big Three (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) convened near Yalta -all three leaders were trying to establish an agenda for governing post-war Germany -G divided, S.U goes to war with Japan |
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| July 1945 -Truman, Attlee and Slatin meet outside Berlin at potsdam and demand unconditional surrender of Japa |
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fascists who claimed to have stopped the communist revolution in rome. |
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| private nazi army, also known as storm troopers |
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hitlers bodyguards that ran concentration camps -black shirts |
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| 1938 annexation of Austria into Greater Germany by the Nazi regime. |
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