3.1 WOII

• Geschiedenis
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Hitler's foreign policy

* Germany more powerful in three steps

* Total War -> civilian victims

Step 1: Rejecting the Treaty of Versailles

* 1936 Sent soldiers to the Rhineland 

* Stronger army

Step 2: Expanding the German State

* One reich with all German-speaking areas

* Invaded Austria (Anschluss)

* Many Austrians supported this 'union'

Munich Conference

* Sudetenland

* France and Britain support Czechoslovakia  if it was attacked

* Avoid war

* Munich Conference

- Hitler could get Sudetenland

- Condition: not conquer other areas

Step 3: Treaties

* Strengthen position

* Alliance with Mussolini (Italy)

* Axis Powers

* Non-Aggression Pact with Stalin

* Wouldn't attack each other

Start of WOII

* Munich Conference

* Hitler broke agreement -> conquered all Czechoslovakia

* 1 September 1939 Hitler invade Poland

* War was inevitable

* Britain and France declared war

The War

* 10 May 1940 attack on the Netherlands

* Belgium and France defeated

* Battle of Britain -> first setback for Hitler

* June 1941 invasion on Soviet-Union

- defeat communism

- grain

- oil

During the Second World War, there were two alliances: the Allied forces and the Axis powers. Which countries fought on each side?

Axis powers

Allied forces

Why didn't Britain and France declared war to Germany when Hiter rejected the Treaty of Versailles?

France, Britain and Germany made a deal about Sudetenland in the Munich Conference. What did they agree?

What does the non-aggresion pact with Stalin mean?

Which isn't a reason for Hitler to invade the Soviet-Union?

1. Grain
2. oil
3. All three are true
4. defeat communism

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Battle of Britain

Hitler invaded the Netherlands

Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles

NSDAP became the largest party in Germany

Hitler invaded the Soviet-Union

The second world war

War in Asia

* Japan wanted a colonial empire in Asia

* Axis Powers in 1940

* US had a lot op colonies in Asia

Pear Harbor

* Hawaii

* US Marine base

* Half of the US fleet was destroyed

* Japan could conquer large parts of Asia

* US joined the Allies

Alies

Great Britain

The Soviet Union

The United States

Canada

Axis Powers

Japan

Italy

Germany

The Dutch East Indies

* Occupied by Japan

* Labour camps -> Dutch Soldiers

* Build railways

* Internment camps -> Dutch civilians

* Survive in poor conditions

Birma spoorlijn

The end of the war

First turning point

* Battle of Stalingrad

* Soviets encircled the Germany Army

* Germany was driven away out of SU

* Attacked from Britain

* Allies

* Bombed industrial regions and cities

Second Turning point

* D-Day

* 6 June 1944

* Normandy

* Liberation of Western Europe

End of the War in Europe

* January 1945 the Allies entered Germany from the west

* The Red Army marched in from the East

* German capital of Berlin

* 30 April 1945 -> Hitler committed suicide

* 7 May 1945 -> Germany surrendered

End of war in Japan

* Refused to surrender

* Harry Truman -> president of America

* Atom bomb

* Hiroshima en Nagasaki

* 15 Augustus 1945 Japan surrendered

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Assignments

Make the assignments of paragraph 3.2

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