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• Lend Lease: A policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France, China, and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and 1945.  
• Burma Road: The Burma Road was a road linking Burma with southwest China. Its terminals were Lashio, Burma, in the south and Kunming, China, the capital of Yunnan province in the north. It was built in 1937-1938 while Burma was a British colony to convey supplies to China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.  
• Vichy government: Vichy France was the French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War Two. Officially independent, it was occupied by the Nazis and the French worked collaboratively with them.   
• Banzai culture: Banzai attack was the term that was used by the Allied forces of World War II to refer to Japanese human wave attacks and swarming. The term came from the Japanese battle cry Tennōheika Banzai ('His Majesty the Emperor will live 10 000 years’). This tactic was used when the Japanese commanders of infantry battalions foresaw that a battle was about to be lost. It is often co-related to the word kamikaze, although usually banzai refers to infantry tactics and kamikaze to air tactics.  
• Germany wants to takes Stalingrad, doesn't let civilians to leave the city because Staling doesn't want to give it up  

  Soviets could afford to replace men and resources, but Germans could not  

  Gives Darwin a black eye, but Nazis used up all the equipment  
• Germany's goal: Take Russia out of the war, capture valuable oil fields in Causasus  

  Outcome: Germany lost vast numbers of personnel and equipment and the USSR turned on Germany  
• Airborne assault cut up coastline from the reinforcements so they had to go fight through the troopers  
• Japanese thought they destroyed 4 aircraft carriers at Midway  

  They just hit the York town, and attacked the same one four times (how the hell do you mess that one up lmao, everytime they hit it people on board kept repairing it until they gave up by the 3rd time) 

  However they didn't target the repair stations sooo uh skill issue everything was running back up quickly anyway 
• Tricked Hitler by dressing a dead homeless man in a British commander uniform, filled his pockets and handcuffed a briefcase and put documents that said they were going to invade in Greece, and then Italy  

    

  Inflatable tanks were used to trick Hitler  \
• WW2, 1927 Japan had started fighting in China  

  • Japan hoped they'd get coal, fuel and iron  
  • But took a lot more resources to do it  
  • Japan left the league of nations so they couldn't do anything  
  • They needed resources, if they want to get them they'd have to knock the US out of the war   
  • Japan was wrecked by the Great Depression and the army was made up with men from rural areas seeking to assuage their pride  
  • People couldn't build buildings with wood because their resources were Sacre  

    
• September 1939 

  • 1st – Germany invades Poland 
  • 3rd – War declared 
  • 17th – USSR invade Poland 
  • 27th – Warsaw surrendered 

   

  November 1939 – March 1940 

  • Winter war – Finland invaded but fails?  

   

  April 1940 

  • Norway and Denmark (6 April) invaded by Germany 

   

  June 1940 

  • Italy enters war 
  • USSR occupies Baltic States 

   

  *Phoney war ends* 

   

  July 1940 

  • Invasion of France 
  • Battle of Britain 

   

  Invasion of France 

  • Germany goes through Belgium + Majano (?)  line 
  • Germany flies through the forrest  
• Dunkirk


  Britain was able to get 338 000 allied soldiers out of beach
• Dunkirk


  Britain sends all soldiers to Dunkirk and get stuck (surrounded)
• Battle of Britain


  10 July – 31 October 1940
• Battle of Britain


  • Belligerents: Great Britain, Canada vs Germany, Italy
  • Units: Royal Air Force, RCAF vs Luftwaffe, Corpo Aereo Italiano
• Britain operated at night in the dark (complete blackout – heavy drapes, no street lights, no headlights, etc)
• Britain told people to eat carrots to get better eyesight (auto car accidents)
• Britain found German planes at night and shot them down
• Battle of Stalingrad 

  • 23 August – 2 February 1943 
  • Belligerents: Germany, Romania, Italy, Croatia vs USSR (Russia) 
  • 1.2 million soviet citizens killed 
  • Very few survive the war 
  • Soviets were able to replace men, however Germans couldn't – lose whole army 
  • Germany forced to retreat 
  • Germany wanted to take Russia out of war and get valuable oil fields in Caucasus  

   

   
• Britain developed radar – to hide from Germans, they said their pilots ate a lot of carrots
• Germany couldn't understand Polish on radio
• War of attrition


  Who could shoot down more people + aircrafts
• First air based battle in world history
• First loss Nazi's experienced
• Hitler's goal was destruction of Soviet Union


  Therefore needed Britain out of war
• Britain ended up entering war more actively


  Therefore Germany had to fight two fronts
• Japan invaded China because it needed iron, coal and oil
• Japan brutally murdered many soldiers and civilians
• Disappointed by Japan's actions, the US gave a loan to help China
• 26 July 1939: termination of treaty of commerce and navigation
• 27 Sep 1940: Japan became allies with Germany and Italy
• 26 July 1941: USA stopped all assets going to Japan (Oil)
• Japan lost 94% of oil supply after US stopping supplying
• Pearl harbour was almost defenceless because they weren't expecting Japan to attack
• 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbour was bombed
• Bombing destroyed many battleships, including USS Arizona, however their main ships and aircrafts were not present at the time
• After bombing of Pearl Harbour, Japan took over other islands in the Pacific
• This angered US, causing the US to join the war
• • Japan's rural rare were impacted by Great Depression 
  • Japan's imperial army was enlarged with men from rural areas seeking employment  
  • Japan was not treated fairly in Treaty of Versailles – goes towards sense of pride and worth for Japan 
  • White Australia policy – Japanese took this personall