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.
1939
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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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