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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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