WW2McCulloch by Raina

Treaty of Versailles

rainamcculloch — 2015-12-04 19:56:12 UTC

The Allied Powers blamed Germany for WW1. Germany had to pay war reparations & reduce it's millitary & give up territory.

Great Depression

rainamcculloch — 2015-12-04 20:06:26 UTC

Began October 29, 1929 when the U.S stock market crashed. Resulted in high unemployment, home and farm foreclosures, and business failures. Depression then started to spread throughout the world.

German and Italian Facism

rainamcculloch — 2015-12-04 20:10:42 UTC

Facism's befief in extreme nationalism and millitarism led Germany and Italy to use agressive tactics to expand their borders and demonstrate all the power they had. Hitler and Mussolini also demanded total obedience from their citizens giving them total power to acheive their goals.

Invasion of Poland

rainamcculloch — 2015-12-04 20:14:32 UTC

Hitler had an agreement with Stalin to split Poland once gemany attacked it. Starting in 1939, this was achieved by Hitler's use of Blitzkrieg.

Expansionism

rainamcculloch — 2015-12-04 20:19:09 UTC

Expansionism is the expanding of a country's borders in order to dominate the political, economic, and social life of another country.

During the 1930s, Italy Germany, & Japan used very agressive tactics such as Italy attacking Ethiopia, and Germany attacking Austria to expand their borders.

Japanese Millitarism

rainamcculloch — 2015-12-04 20:25:41 UTC

Many Japenese children played with millitary toys, and recieved millitary training at the schools they went to. They were taught a a very young age to be all about the millitary so they could grow up to be strong soldiers. Eventually, the Japenese millitary gained control over the government. All the power then caused the leaders to take agressive actions to solve problems like overpopulation.

Appeasment

rainamcculloch — 2015-12-04 20:31:23 UTC

At the Munich conference in 1938, Britain and France gave into Hitler's demands in order to avoid war. Hitler believed that they would keep following all of his demands so it caused him to become more agressive with his demands.

Constitution of Ethiopia

rainamcculloch — 2015-12-09 00:19:16 UTC

In 1931, this was the first modern constitution for Ethiopia. It intended to officially replace the Fetha Negest which had been the supreme law since the Middle Ages. There was a ceremony held July 16th, 1931 with Halie Sellasie who had long desired to proclaim a constitution for his country.

The second Sino- Japanese war

rainamcculloch — 2015-12-09 00:29:22 UTC

On July 7th, 1937, there was a military conflict between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. China was recognized as one of the "big four of allies" during the warand then became one of the five permenent member sof the United Nations security council at the end of the war.

The second Ethiopian war

rainamcculloch — 2015-12-11 00:20:05 UTC

The Second Italian- Ethiopian war, was a colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire. The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia.

The Spanish civil war

rainamcculloch — 2015-12-11 00:23:29 UTC

1936–1939 broke out with a military uprising in Morocco on July 17 that was originally triggered by events in Madrid. Within days, Spain was divided in two; a Republican and a Nationalist. Spain was then eventually under the leadership of General Francisco Franco.

The battle of Stalingrad

rainamcculloch — 2015-12-11 00:27:48 UTC

The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle of WW2 in which Germany and its allies fought the USSR for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia on the eastern boundary of Europe. The battle lasted five months, one week, and three days.

Pearl Harbor

rainamcculloch — 2015-12-11 00:33:43 UTC

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese navy against the US naval base at PH in the Territory of Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into WW2

V-E Day

rainamcculloch — 2015-12-11 00:35:59 UTC

V-E (standing for Victory in Europe day) was the holiday celebrated on May 8th, 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of WW2 of Germany's surrender of it's armed forces. This marked the end of WW2 in Europe.

The Holocaust

rainamcculloch — 2015-12-11 00:39:33 UTC

This was a Genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by Hitler's Nazi regime and its collaborators. Five million non-Jewish victims were killed bringing the total to approximately eleven million people total.