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Chapter 20
Lesson 1

Hitler's slogan- "One People, One Empire, One Leader"
* Germany's government army and press was ruled by Nazi party
* Germany joined forces with Italy and Japan to try to control the world.

* Fascism - set of political ideas that valued strong government control, military strength, and intense nationalism


Benito Mussolini
* - forced the King of Italy to make him Prime minister
* banned all political parties except the Fascist party



* 1935 - Italy conquered the African country of Ethiopia
* 1937 - Japanese military swept into the middle of China
* 1938 - Germans took control of Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia


appeasement
* the policy of not opposing fascism


* 1939 - Germans seized the rest of Czechoslovakia and attacked Poland
* 1939 - Britain and France declare war on Germany

What were some of the reasons for the start of war in 1939?
* discontent with the Treaty of Verasilles
* Unhappiness with how government handled economic problems


Worldwide Conflict
* 1940 - Germany had taken over Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France
* Hitler failed to take Britain in 1940
* 1941 - Hitler attacked the Soviet Union, even though he had a peace agreement with Stalin
* Japan captured other areas of China, and much of Indo-China

Axis Powers
* German, Italy and Japan


December 1941
* Japan bombs the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii

* Italians surrendered in September 1943


What events in 1941 proved to be turning points in the war?
* Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
* U.S. joined war effort
* Germans faced a difficult fight in Russia


The War Ends

* June 6, 1944 D -day, troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, with plans to push toward to Germany
* May 7 1945 - Germans surrendered ending the war in Europe






* August 6, 1945 - U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
* August 9, 1945 U.S. drops another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan
* Japan surrenders after the attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima


How did the Allies gain victory in Europe and in the Pacific during World War II?
* Allies launched the D-Day attack on the shores of France which led to the defeat
* The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to defeat Japan


The Holocaust
* Holocaust - mass killing of Jewish people
* Concentration camps - type of prison served as slave labor for German war effort
* Auschwitz - a concentration camp where Nazi doctors used prisoners for strange and cruel medical experiments
* Genocide - the killing of an entire group of people

* The Germans' plan was to kill all the Jews in Europe
* Jews were herded like cattle into boxcars and taken to special concentration camps
* 6 million Jews had died in death camps and 6 million non-Jews were killed

What reason did the Germans have for killing Jews and other people?
* To create a German super race


After the War
* 50 million soldiers and civilians died in the war
* Refugees - people who leave their homes to seek shelter and safety else where

Conferences at Yalta and Potsdam
* German guns taken away
* Germany divided into four zones ( Britain, U.S. , France and Soviet Union would govern these zones

United Nations formed to replace the League of Nations and help prevent new wars