World War 2 Flashcards
(37 cards)
Terms of the treaty of Versailles
- take away germanys military
- place allies in germany
- take some german territoy
- take germanys colonies
- germany must pay for damages caused during the war
- accept full fault
Reactions in Germany of the treaty of Versailles?
Everybody upset, it is violated and Hitler disregards the treaty
Conditions in Germany: Hyperflation
Hyperinflation is inflation that is very high and out of control; prices increase so fast and by enormous amounts
Conditions in Germany: Unemployment
1933 Hitler assumed power: 6 M unemployed
En of 1938 450,000 unemployed
How did Hitler convince germans to vote for the Nazi Party?
Giving passionate speeches about germany’s greatness, the superiority of the aryan race, the problem of jewish people and the brutal terms of the treaty of Versailles.
Hitler’s steps to power
- Leader of Nazi Party
- Chancellor
- Reichstag fire
- reichstag decree is issued
- Hitler assumes near dictatorial power
- Enabeling Act
- President dies, Hitler becomes the Fuhrer
How did Hitler stay in Power? Propaganda
- Mass rallies, posters, propaganda films
- Nazis controlled and censored the radio and newspaper
- Indoctrination of school children with Nazi ideology
- Hitler youth and young maidens
How did Hitler stay in Power? Terror
- Secret police called the Gestapo spying and arresting enemies of the state
- SS responsible for running concentration camps
- Everyone scared of being arrested by gestapo and put into concentration camps
How did Hitler stay in Power? Economic growth
More jobs in Germany
How did Hitler stay in Power? National Pride
Do away with the treaty of Versailles and promise to disregard the treaty
Appeasement
Giving into the demands of the aggressor
Why was the appeasement policy adopted by many countries
- Hitler would stop the spread of communism
- Memories of WWI
- Poor leadership
- treaty of versailles was too harsh
- the great depression many nations were dealing with economic disaster
Failure of the league of Nations
Established in 1920 to serve as a forum for dispute resolution- “avoid another war”
very weak, with no military resources
Important nations refused to join
Steps to war
- Japan invades manchuria
- Hitler takes control of germany and begins rearm
- mussolini invades ethiopia
- Hitler moves its troops into rhineland
- Germany takes Austria
- The munich agreement is signed
- Hitler takes all of czechoslovakia
- germany and USSR sign a non agression pact
- Germany invades poland
- Britain and france declare war on Germany
- Canada declares war on germany
Anti- Semitism - Kristallnacht
“The night of broken glass’’ non-jews attack on jews
Anti- Semitism - Nuremberg Laws
Laws that took away citizenship and civil rights of jews
Stages of the holocaust
- Stripping of rights
- Segregation
- Concentration
- Extermination
Holocausts
Armenia, Cambodia, Ukraine, Rwanda, Rohyngia
War in the pacific, Pearl Harbour
Japanese bomb pearl harbour on Dec 7 1941 “The day of Infamy”
War in the pacific, The battle of Hong Kong
Canadians fought in Hong Kong in a land battle on Dec 8th to 25th 1941
Hong Kong surrendered on Christmas day 1941
First Bombing
US drops first bomb
“Little Boy” on Hiroshima
on August 6
Second Bombing
Second bomb “Fat Man”
dropped the Japanese city
of Nagasaki on August 9
Manhattan Project
The Americans developed the atomic bomb
first – the ‘Manhattan Project’
Britain Leader
Chamberlain, Churchill
