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
Mussolini banned all political parties except the Facist 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 facism
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?
1)discontent with the Treaty of Verasilles
2)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 added to their Asian empire. 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
1943 Italians surrendered in September 1943
What events in 1941 proved to be turning points in the war?
1)Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
2)U.S. joined war effort
3)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?
1)Allies launched the D-Day attack on the shores of France which led to the defeat
2)The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to defeat Japan
The Holocaust
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
Holocaust - mass killing of Jewish people
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
1)German guns taken away
2)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
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