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Policy of Appeasement
-policy of granting demands to avoid conflict.
-France and Britain were appeasing Germany because they wanted peace and they were not ready for a war. http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/appeasement -
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Hitler's Rise to Power
Jan. 30, 1933-Hitler became Chancellor of Germany
-Germany lost World War 1 and the Treaty of Versailles made Germany pay for the war. They forced the German people to pick Hitler. http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f031008_Hitler -
Nuremburg Laws
-Anti-Jewish Laws that were made by the Nazis.
-The laws are racial laws to remove Jews from Ayran society.
-Germans were not allowed to marry Jews, Jews were not allowed to have German maids, And Jews were not allowed to have German Citizenship. -
Anschluss of Austria
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Munich Conference
-An Agreement allowing Germany to take the Sudentenland.
-Hitler was rearming Germany after the Treaty of Versailles.
-Hitler wanted the Sudentenland because Germans lived there and there is a lot of Industry and resources.
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Blitzkrieg
-means "lightning war" in German.
-military tactic used by the Germans to create disorganization.
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Invaison of Poland
' >Invaision of Poland</a>-1.5 million troops from Germany invaded Poland.
-Hitler said that the invaison was a defence action and Britain and France were not convinced.
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Battle of the Atlantic
Last from September 1939 to defeat of Germany in 1945
-longest military action
-was the navy and German u-boats
-battles was over control of the Atlantic shipping lanes.
-Germany in the begininng had success.
-1943 success shift to the Allies because they had carriers and planes. http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/battle-of-the-atlantic -
Sitzkireg World War 2 begins
France and Britain declare war on Germany.
But don't do anything till the next year.
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Miracle at Dunkirk
-More than 300, 000 were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk.
-Many regular people using fishing boats and yachts rescued the British, French and Belgium troops from the Germans.
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Battle Of Britain
-German and British Air Force faught over the United Kingdom.
-Germany bombing military bases and major cities. http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/battle-of-britain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa69fwMapf0 -
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Battle of Moscow
-the Germans code-named it ‘Operation Typhoon’
-Caputure of Moscow by the Germans
-The attack started well for the Germans.
-Moscow turned into a fortress.
-German forces had been weakened, while the Soviets had raised new forces for the defence of the city. (winter was very bad) http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/world-war-two-and-eastern-europe/the-battle-for-moscow/ -
Pearl Harbor
-Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii
-The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor -
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Battle of Stalingard
-defense of Stalingard by the U.S.S.R.
-Russians consider it to be the greatest battle.
-stopped German advances into the Soviet Union
-Bloodest battle in history 2 million people died. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad -
Dieppe
-devastating and bloody for Canadians
-4,963 Canadians who embarked from England for the operation, only 2,210 returned, and many of them were wounded. Casualties totalled 3,367, including 916 dead and 1,946 prisoners of war.
- large raid on the coast of France to fight off the Germans http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/second-world-war/dieppe-raid -
Dieppe Raid Movie
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Operation Huskey
-invaision of Sicily, Italy July 9-10,1943
-By Allie troops
-"25,000 Canadians landed near Pachino on July 10th, 1943. The early stages of the invasion went more smoothly than expected thanks in part to a brilliant piece of deception by British intelligence which came to be known as Operation Mincemeat. Still, 1st Canadian Division lost 10 men that day." http://www.operationhusky2013.ca/the-mission/ -
D-Day
-160,000 Allied troops landed along beaches of Normandy France.
-Invasion to take back Europe.
-More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded,
-American, British and Canadaian troop landed.
-Late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day -
D-Day Movie
