WW2

• World War 2 lasted from 1939-1945
• WW2 is the largest war in human history
• H.E.A.T. is the acronym of the causes of World War 2
• Treaty of Versailles became one of the causes because Germany lost land to surrounding nations
• Because of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany lost $55 trillion in reparations
• Economic Depression/Great Depression also became one of the causes of WW2
• The stock market crash in October 1929 started the Great Economic Depression
• Unemployment was at its highest during the Great Economic Depression
• Fascism is a political belief that says individual is less important than the nation
• Alliances during the WW2 consisted of the Axis Powers; Germany Italy, Japan, and the Allied Forces; Great Britain, France, USA
• Germany and Italy urges Totalitarianism, wherein the state has absolute control of society
• Hitler became the German Chancellor
• Hitler became leader of the 3rd Reich from 1933-1945
• Hitler wrote his autobiography entitled "Mein Kampf"
• Hitler was one of the main causes of WW2
• Hitler wanted more Living Space/Lebensraum
• Great Britain gave Sudetenland to Hitler through Appeasement
• Appeasement showed that Hitler could do anything he wanted
• Germany and USSR signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact which is a Non-Aggression pact between Germany and Russia
• The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was signed in Moscow on August 23, 1939
• On 4:45 in the morning of September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland
• Great Britain and France requested Germany to leave, but they refused. Therefore, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany.
• The two main theaters in WW2 are the European Theater and the Pacific Theater
• The Germans utilized the "Blitzkrieg" policy, meaning lightning war.
• Blitzkrieg utilizes the elements of speed and surprise so the rival would be unprepared at the time of attack
• France surrendered to the German's Blitzkrieg after 6 weeks from May 10 - June 22, 1940
• Germany's invasion of Great Britain is called the Battle of Britain
• German Blitz attempted to attack Great Britain, yet was unsuccessful because the RAF (Royal Air Force) manage to defeat Blitz
• The Jews became the scapegoat of all German miseries
• the Holocaust killed 11 million victims in total, 6 mil Jews, 5 mil Gypsies, Mentally ill, and homosexuals
• The Pacific War started when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, a naval base in Hawaii in December 7, 1941
• Japan's strategy was called Kamikaze which meant "Divine Wind"
• Kamikaze's alternative definition is a Japanese Pilot in World War II assigned to make a suicidal crash on a target
• Kamikaze's second definition is an airplane containing explosives to be flown in a suicidal crash on a target
• One Japanese sailor, Kazuo Sakamaki was captured 2 hours after the attack
• Operation Barbarossa was a code name for Germany's invasion of U.S.S.R.
• Operation Barbarossa was launched on June 22, 1941
• Germany's Operation Barbarossa broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939
• In Operation Barbarossa, Hitler wanted to destroy Stalingrad, because it bears the name Stalin
• In the conduction of Operation Barbarossa, Germany was blocked by the Russian Winter killing 91,000 Germans