Pre-World War 2 - Olympic games

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Olympic Games 1936 (Berlin)

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Fecha

World War 2Pages 123-129

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Guideline:

✤ Countdown to the WW 2 (page 123).

✤ Activity 108 & 110.

✤ Characteristics of WW 2 (pages 125-126).

✤ Key events of WW 2 (pages 126-127).

✤ How did Hitler start it all? (page 128).

✤ Activity 113 & 114.

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Countdown to WW 2 (1936-1939)

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✤ Hitler, chancellor of Germany and leader of the National Socialists (Nazis).

✤ Banned all the political parties & imprisoned his opponents.

✤ Manipulated the German media.

✤ Begun prosecuting the Jews.

1936

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✤ Broke the Treaty of Versailles & marched his soldiers into the Rhineland (demilitarized zone).

✤ Reasons: Russian-French 1935 treaty; a threat to Germany and need to defend its borders.

✤ The League of Nations complained, but no country was ready to confront Germany.

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✤ End of 1936:

✤ Germany, Italy & Japan signed a pact against the USSR: the Anti-Cominterm Pact.

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✤ Hitler helped the rebels in the Civil War.

✤ Condor air force.

✤ Bombing Durango & Gernika, a “trial exercise”.

1937

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Gernika, 1937

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1938

✤ “Anschluss” (merger): marched into Austria.

✤ According to him, Austria & Germany were one.

✤ Proclaimed the “Greater German Reich”, the 3rd Reich.

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✤ Versailles (1919) set the borders with Czechoslovakia.

✤ But the Sudetenland (3 million German speakers) was a target for Hitler, and he invaded it.

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✤ British & French left Hitler as an “appeasament” after the Munich Agreement where Hitler promised not to attack the rest of Czechoslovakia.

✤ Western Europe was more concerned about the Communists and Stalin.

✤ Some thought that Hitler could be an ally against the Communist expansion.

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✤ Broke his promise & invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia.

✤ Germany & Russia signed a pact, no attacking each other.

✤ Key place: Poland.

✤ British & French finally realised about the plans of Hitler.

✤ They warned him that if he invaded Poland, a war would be declared.

✤ September 1st, 1939: German forces invaded Poland.

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Characteristics of WW 2

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Differences between WW 1 & 2

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✤ Worldwide.

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✤ The use of fighter planes and bombers, fundamental.

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✤ Military technology.

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✤ Occupations.

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✤ Espionage.

✤ “Secret war”.

✤ Getting to now enemy’s movements & tactics.

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✤ Holocaust.

✤ 6,000,000 Jews died.

✤ Hitler’s racial theories.

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✤ Casualties: 45,000,000 people.

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Consequences of WW2

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✤ Atomic bomb.

✤ The USA dropped two over Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

✤ Japan inmediately surrended.

✤ Hiroshima: 166,000 died.

✤ Nagasaki: 80,000 died.

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Little Boy

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✤ The USSR discovered the power of the atomic bomb and it developed its own nuclear program.

✤ At the end of the war, two opposing superpowers:

✤ The USA.

✤ The USSR.

✤ “Cold War”.

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