**Creator**:: [[Aaron Bopp]] **Source**:: [[course_US History from 1870]] - [[notes_1930's General Notes]] - WW2 - Expansions - [[Germany]] - German put weapons in the DMZ - Hitler incited riots and used them as an excuse to invade Czechoslovakia - [[Hitler]] sold himself as a just trying to unite the german people that had been seperated since [[World War 1|WW1]] - Nazi-Soviet Pact - removed the immediate threat of two front war - Blitzkrieg was fast and destructive - Other countries came in when the [[Russia|Soviet Union]] also attacked poland - In 3 months Germany controlled all of Europe except for Britain and the [[Russia|Soviet Union]] - Japan - Expansions threatened american - Rape of Nanking - Neutrality acts kept us out of war - [[FDR]] got congress to create loopholes to help the Allies - America - [[FDR ]]supported isolationism but new that America would have to come in at some point - 1941 - Warning did not come to Pearl Harbor until after attack - America enters the War - America - Europe was main front - North [[Africa]] -> Italy -> France - One chance to invade France - D-Day needed to gain a hold in Europe - Second Front helped to relieve pressure on [[Russia|Soviets]] - Battle of Bulge was counter offensive in late 1944 - Ending the War - Yalta conference - Unconditional surrender form Germany - Set post-war agenda for Germany - [[Russia|USSR]] agreed to enter war against Japan 90 days after german defeat - [[FDR]]death and Hitler [[suicide]] lead to a quicker end to the war in May 1945 - This is when concentration camps were discovered - Eisenhower invited many people to see these atrocities and document them - Pacific Theater - Initial battles won by [[Japan]] - Two-pronged war - australian attacks - island hopping - amphibious landings trying to take back on island at a time - Battle of midway 1942 - crippled [[Japan|japanese]] fleets but continued to fight till 1944 - By 1944 Japan was running out of resources and started using kamikazes as last ditch effort - Potsdam Conference - Stalin was wary of new ally leadership - Occupation germany was shared by major powers - prosecute Nazi war criminals - Potsdam Declaration - "surrender or face destruction" - Atomic bombs - Trinity Test first successful atomic bomb around the time of Potsdam Conference - Truman decides to use bomb to end the war and chooses Hiroshima and Nagasaki because they were industrial centers and highly populated - [[Russia|USSR]] and just began amassing troops as they agreed to in the Yalta Conference - Some died from bomb, others died from infections and wounds, some were effected by the radiation and are still discriminated against - US knew that Japan was negotiating surrender through neutral states, but US only wanted unconditional surrender - There was invasion in plans for November 1945 - Japan's navy was already weakened - Truman never apologized or publicly questioned his decision - He did it to shorten the war, save American lives, and bring unconditional surrender - End of WW2 - 4% of worlds population - 30,000,000 military deaths - 55,000,000 civilian deaths - Paris Peace Congerence - Provisions - Unconditional Surrender - Military occupation of Germany and Japan - Germany was divided between Ally powers - Created [[United Nations]] - Security Council - 11 nations that vary but five primary (victors of WW2) - US - Britain - Russia - China - France - 5 primary have Vetoes - General Assembly - All major nations - Causes - Development of [[Totalitarianism]] - state control of all levels of society - Use of a secret service - Control of media and propoganda - forbidding criticism - Oppressive polices with threat of violence - cult of personality - Rise of [[Germany]] - promised new [[germany]] after [[World War 1|WW1]] - [[Hitler]] was seen a figure strong enough to protect them against [[Communism]] - Once [[Hitler]] was appointed Chancelor he replaced non-nazis and jews at all levels of [[government]] - Framed the [[Nazi]] cause as a conflict between the aRyans and jews - [[Italy]] - Musolini became harcore nationalist after [[Italy]] - also preyed on fear of [[Communism]] - Mussolini and his fascist mob took control of the [[government]] by force - Built on loyalty to the state - [[Japan]] - Ruled by emperor but military had full control of state - Industrial power but needed natural resources, colonialism was the answer - Believed other Asian nationalities were inferior - [[notes_1950's General Notes]]