https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn Made with my sweat and tears en-us 2021-04-06 21:53:15 UTC 2025-11-08 07:05:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f636.png 201022102 https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389202195 In March, 1935, Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles by announcing the creation of a German air force and expanding their military to 550,000 soldiers. This was done to prepare Germany for war and because the Allies had grown too weary of enforcing the Versailles treaty.

]]> 2021-04-06 21:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389202195 201022102 https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389203287 In March of 1936 Hitller sent German troops into the Rhineland which was demilitarized in the Versailles Treaty. The French had used the demilitarization of the Rhineland to strong arm the Germans into paying massive war reparations. By securing the Rhineland Hitler also secured the German industrial center, safeguarding the creation of the Wehrmacht. 

]]> 2021-04-06 21:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389203287 201022102 https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389204610 From 1940 to 1941 Japan invaded Allied controlled Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. This was because Japan relied on American Iron, machine tools, oil, and copper and America was growing dissatisfied with Japan and its war against China. Therefore these European colonies provided much needed natural resources for Japan. 

]]> 2021-04-06 21:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389204610 201022102 https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389206393 In April of 1940 Germany blitzkrieged through Denmark and Norway. This was important for 2 reasons. First, the invasion of Norway secured Norwegian oil and iron for the Nazis. Secondly, the occupation of Norway denied the Allies a rout of attack strait into Germany

]]> 2021-04-06 21:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389206393 201022102 https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389208377 In August of 1940  the Luftwaffe began bombing British air and naval bases, harbors, and factories to gain air superiority allowing for an invasion of Britain through the English channel. Then in a change of tactics the Luftwaffe began bombing civilian targets to brake British morale. This was a mistake though as it let the British air force factories rebuild the British Royal Air Force. ]]> 2021-04-06 21:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389208377 201022102 https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389210121 In June of 1941 Hitler started operation Barbarossa, which was an invasion of  the USSR; Germany needed the Slavic states for living space and slave labor. The rapid invasion caused a crisis in the Soviet Union as most of the factories where situated in the west, therefore 1,500 large factories had to be moved to the middle part of the USSR and start with green workers. This led to German armies having more tanks and aircraft during the beginning of the German-Soviet conflict. 

]]> 2021-04-06 21:59:21 UTC https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389210121 201022102 https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389212109 December 1941, the Japanese navy carried out a lightning raid on Pearl Harbor hoping to destroy the US’s naval power in the pacific. Unfortunately for the Japanese they missed the oil storages, naval repair yards, and the American aircraft carriers were not docked at the time. 

]]> 2021-04-06 22:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389212109 201022102 https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389213842 During the beginning of 1942 German’s decided to focus less on the occupation of Moscow, the capital of the USSR, and renewed their offensive in Crimea. This opened the way for an invasion into the Soviet Caucasus, which held valuable oil. The occupation of Crimea also held the defensive purpose.  Romanian oil fueled the  Wehrmacht, and the Soviets could bomb Romanian oil fields from Crimea. There for it was an important point for the Germans to take control of.]]> 2021-04-06 22:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389213842 201022102 https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389221493 During the winter of 1942-1943 the battle for Stalingrad took place, between the Germans and Soviets. The battle ended in a decisive victory for the Soviets when the German sixth army was surrounded and forced to surrender. This not only marked the turning of the tides for the Soviets militarily but also economically as the factories relocated at the start of operation Barbarossa began to out produce the supplies the German’s east front was portioned by the Nazi government. 

]]> 2021-04-06 22:05:53 UTC https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389221493 201022102 https://padlet.com/201022102/6tlbmfzomkmu4tgn/wish/1389223175 In May of 1945, after Hitler’s suicide, the Nazis surrendered which ended world war 2. Japan was under and attack alone, with all it's allies defeated. Japan's fate was sealed. Even if the United States didn’t use the atomic bombs the combined power of the Soviets and the Americans would have been too much for the Japanese Empire to withstand alone. 

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