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Japan’s Army that was in Manchuria took the arsenal at Mukden and other strategic points and drove Chinese forces out, China responded to this with a boycott of Japanese goods but Japan forced them to stop the boycott with the invasion of Shanghai (China was left in industrialized backwardness. Which meant it was harder for them to fight.) -
The territory that a nation believes it needs for its natural development (Usually associated with Nazi Germany) Lebensraum became a vital strategic component of Germany's “return to the East” Hitler wrote in his second book that Germany should “[concentrate] all of its strength on marking out a way of life for our people through the allocation of adequate Lebensraum for the next one hundred years.”
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The Holocaust
Nazi Germany’s persecution of around 6 million European Jews.
The Nuremberg Laws of 1935
Denied Jews their German Citizenship
Jews could not marry anyone but Jews
Jews lost most of their political rights
Jews were forced into ghettos/concentration camps
The Wannsee Conference
“The Final Solution of the Jewish Question”
Large deportations of Jews from the ghettos to killing centers.
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Nanking was the capital of China but fell under Japanese control and Japanese General Matsui Iwane ordered Nanking to be destroyed. The Japanese troops committed many atrocities against the civilians, around 200,000 men died and at least 20,000 women and girls were raped and killed. (Its impact was that China had lost more of it’s land to Japan) -
Leaders of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to let Germany annex the border area of Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland) in exchange for a peace treaty. (This is important because this is the appeasement in Czechoslovakia, which was violated 6 months later by Germany) -
After Germany took over Czechoslovakia, the British and French gave Poland security guarantees but Germany had secretly dispatched submarines into the Atlantic. Germany faked a Polish attack and invaded Poland on Sept. 1st. Poland was overpowered and had to retreat. -
A German invasion of the Soviet Union. Hitler felt like he could not trust Joseph Stalin, so he wanted to deal with the Soviet Union before he took over the rest of Europe. It was originally supposed to happen in mid-May but was postponed when Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece. Germany overall lost due to the Soviet Union having more military weapons than them and this impacted WW2 by causing the Soviet Union to join the Allied Powers. -
President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill issued a joint declaration called the Atlantic Charter. The Atlantic Charter became the blueprint of the post-war world that both nations wanted to have. Important parts of it included freedom of fear and want, self-determination for all people, no territorial increase of power, lower trade barriers, freedom of the seas, and worldwide advancement in social welfare. -
The United States imposed severe economic sanctions on Japan to reduce its aggression. Japan reacted to this with war, so Japan wanted to close off the Pacific but they knew they had to get rid of America’s fleet at Pearl Harbor. So on December 7th Japan launched an attack on Pearl Harbor, 7/8 ships were either sunk/destroyed, and 347/402 aircraft were destroyed or seriously damaged. This resulted in 3,471 American casualties and the next day America Declared war on Japan. -
Axis forces entered Egypt and threatened the Suez Canal, oil transport, and routes to the U.S.S.R. Forces established a defensive line south of El Alamein and repelled Axis attacks from July to September. During that time, the forces of the Union of the US in Egypt benefited from the US equipment and support from other nations. The American Air Force disrupted Axis port operations and supply lines. In October, the Allies went offensive and broke through the Axis lines.
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Germany and the U.S.S.R were in battle and Hitler was determined to push on the Volga River, Germany needed to use Building-to-building fighting to do so. The U.S.S.R was heavily reinforced in Stalingrad and the two nations fought like this all winter. When Germany’s better troops came they sent the less equipped troops to the Allied powers. In November the U.S.S.R launched a massive counterattack on Germany and forced them to retreat. Hitler lost a HUGE chunk of his military due to this.
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The Largest seaborne invasion in history. D-Day was the Allies' path to victory. They pushed back Axis forces until Germany surrendered less than a year later. -
Japan was offered an ultimatum to surrender but they ignored it so President Harry S. Truman dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in Hiroshima(Little Boy) and Nagasaki(Fat Man). Its Impact on WW2 was that it made Japan surrender and WW2 was over.