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1936

significance:

this event is what ultimately started ww2

he ignored the military part and started remilitarizing the Rhineland

quote:

"I knew that what we were doing went against the Treaty, but we got to get it done."

key people:

Adolf Hitler

Nazis

interesting fact:

just 4 years after the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler violated it

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1938

significance:

this conference was to give Germany the Sudetenland

quote:

"You were given the choice of dishonor or war. You chose dishonor and you will have war." Winston Churchill in 1938 after the conference

key people:

Adolf Hitler

Wilhelm Kietel (Head of German Armed Forces High Command)

Konrad Henlein (Founded the Sedeten German Home Front)

interesting fact:

not only did Hitler want the Sudetenland, but he also began to plan to take over Czechoslovakia

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1941

significance

this event is what entered the US into WW2

quote:

"Yesterday, December 7, 1941-A date which will live in infamy-The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."- FDR

key people:

Tojo Hideki (Japan Prime Minister)

Nagumo Chuichi (Led the attack)

Husband E. Kimmel (In command of Pearl Harbor)

Walter C. Short (Other person in command)

Geroge C. Marshall (US Army Chief of Staff)

FDR (President of the US)

interesting fact:

the US had cut off all supplies to Japan and terminated a Treaty they had with Japan before this event

they tried to come to an agreement, but it seemed as though it would be impossible

There was warning the planes were coming, but word did not get to Hawaii until the attack had started

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1944

significance:

the day troops from the US, Canada, and the UK planned an invasion on Normandy to get the Nazis out

they succeeded

quote:

"We will accept nothing less than victory!" General Eisenhower

key people:

General Dwight Eisenhower (Commander of Operation Overlord)

Rommel (was the Commander of the German troops, but he was on leave)

interesting fact:

156,000 (allied) soldiers were loaded onto boats and got to shore at the end of the day

4,000 (allied) soldiers were killed

this was the largest naval, land, and air operation

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Kristallnacht/The Night of the Broken Glass

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Kristallnacht/The Night of the Broken Glass

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1938

significance:

on the night(s) of Nov. 9-10 the Nazis attacked Jewish people, their homes, their property, etc.

quote:

"The streets were destroyed, my friends home was trashed, burned, and empty. I had never seen something like it, it made me sick." (made up)

key people:

Gespato (Chief of the Nazi Police)

Jewish people (or anyone affected by this night)

interesting fact:

this night was also known as the Night of the Broken Glass

this is because of all of the glass that was left in the streets

The Nazis were told to start fires and only to intervene if the fire caught on to an "Aryan" property

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gassing began on 1941

significance:

these camps were where the Jews, or any one else that was captured was taken

most people died in these camps because of the horrible conditions

they were starved, beat, overworked, and sent to gas chambers

quote:

"I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no person should witness: gas chambers built by learned engineers. Children poisoned my educated physicians. Infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot by high school and college graduates. So, I am suspicious of my education. My request is: Help your children become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monster, skilled psychopaths or educated Eichmann's. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are important only if they serve to make our children more human." -A survivor

key people:

Adolf Hitler

Heinrich Himmler (Chief of Germany Police)

Gespato

interesting fact:

not only were Jews capture, but Roma, Slavs, homosexuals, people who were thought to have a mental disability, and so many others.

the main camps were:

Aushwitz

Belzec

Chelmno

Majdanek

Sobibor

Treblinka

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1940-1941

significance:

this was an intense bombing by Nazi Germany on cities

quote:

"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."-Harold Pinter

key people:

Adolf Hitler (he authorized it)

the soldiers who dropped the bombs

interesting fact:

there were 348 bombers and 617 fighters

430 people died and 1,600 people were seriously injured

This was also known as The Lightening War

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1945

significance:

this conference was to plan the defeat of Germany

quote:

"interim governmental authorities broadly representative of all democratic elements in the population…and the earliest possible establishment through free elections of governments responsive to the will of the people.” (One of the agreements)

key people:

FDR

Winston Churchill

Joseph Stalin

interesting facts:

while trying to come upon an agreement for the government Stalin wanted a communist ran government while FDR and Churchill wanted a Polish government-in-exile

when the conference was made public, the US criticized it a lot

Stalin had failed to keep his agreement

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why was he significant in ww2?

he was the supreme commander of the Allied Forces

fun fact(s)

Marshall had selected him out of 366 other senior commanders

his slogan was "I like Ike!"

his nickname was Ike

info

he gave the command that launched the Normandy Invasion

in December of 1944 Eisenhower was made a 5-star general

in 1948 he was the most popular and respected soldier

he published a book called Crusade in Europe

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why was she significant in ww2?

she was a symbol for women in the workforce and women's independence

fun fact(s)

Rosie was created by J. Howard Miller

the piece was originally titled "We can do it", but was changed to Rosie the Riveter even though there were no ties to someone named Rosie

info

when ww2 started more and more men were drafted so women had to take over in the workforce

Rosie was used as propaganda

in 1943 a song was created after her