AP Euro - Dictatorships and the Second World War
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| show | 1919, did not create an enduring peace.
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| show | Severe punishment of Germany due to ___ resulted in conservative German resentment against the "dictated peace".
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| League of Nations | show 🗑
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| show | Germany and other European nations agreed to settle all disputes peacefully.
Gave Europeans a false sense of security about the future.
Provisions were not enforceable.
"Spirit of Locarno" was no longer relevant once Hitler took power.
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| show | 62 nations signed the the treaty proclaiming "war was illegal"(unless for purely defensive purposes)
Once again, the treaty lacked enforcement provisions.
Hitler later claimed that his aggressive military ventures were for "defensive purposes."
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| show | Japan invaded this area.
League of Nations condemned the invasion but did little by the way of sanctions.
Japan pulled out of the League.
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| Ethiopia, 1935 | show 🗑
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| show | Generalissimo Francisco Franco, a fascist, sought to overthrow the republican government in Spain.
Mussolini and Hitler supported Franco and used the conflict as a testing ground for their military forces.
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| show | a fascist, sought to overthrow the republican government in Spain
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| show | In response to military cooperation in Spain, the ___ ___ ___ was formed ("Fascintern"): an alliance between fascist Italy and Germany.
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| show | Reoccupied by Germany.
Directly violated the Versailles Treaty (as well as the Locarno Pact)
France was unwilling to enforce the treaty without British aid.
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| show | making concessions to an aggressor in order to achieve peace
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| show | ______ in Britain, stemming from the horrible memories of World War I, made the government reluctant to risk another world war with Germany.
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| Anschluss, 1938 | show 🗑
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| Sudetenland | show 🗑
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| Munich Conference | show 🗑
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| Neville Chamberlain | show 🗑
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| Polish Corridor, Danzig | show 🗑
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| show | Hitler sought assurances that Russia would not attack Germany if he invaded Poland.
A guarantee of non-aggression would ensure that Germany would only have to fight a one-front war against France and Britain
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| show | Germany invaded _____on Sept. 1, 1939
Marked the beginning of World War II
September 3, Britain & France declared war on Germany
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| Blitzkrieg | show 🗑
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| Charles de Gaulle | show 🗑
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| show | Japan added to Rome-Berlin axis for mutual defense and military support.
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| show | August, Luftwaffe (led by Herman Goring, one of Hitler's inner circle) was ordered by Hitler to destroy the Royal Air Force (RAF)
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| show | Hitler all along had planned on invading Russia to fulfill his dream of "________" (“living space”) in the east
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| “Great Patriotic War of the Fatherland” | show 🗑
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| Atlantic Charter | show 🗑
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| Lend-Lease | show 🗑
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| show | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, resulted in U.S. entry into the war
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| show | formed in 1942.
Consisted of Britain, the Soviet Union and the U.S. as well as two dozen other countries.
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| Holocaust | show 🗑
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| show | In Poland, Jews were forced to live in ghettos (e.g. Warsaw and Krakow)
a. Deprived of adequate supplies
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| show | meeting of Nazi officials on January 20, 1942, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to plan the “final solution” to the so-called “Jewish question” .
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| “Final Solution” | show 🗑
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| show | Six death camps built in Poland in addition to hundreds of concentration camps
Auschwitz was the most notorious
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| show | By November, British forces (led by Bernard Montgomery) drove the Germans (led by Erwin Rommel—the “Desert Fox”) out of Egypt.
the site of two major battles between British and Axis forces in 1942
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| show | Critical battle of the Eastern Front.
First German land defeat in Europe.
After the battle, the Soviets began the 2 ½-year campaign of pushing the German army back to Berlin
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| show | “Operation Overlord”, June 6, 1944
120,000 troops crossed the English Channel from southern England and invaded France in an amphibious assault on Normandy
Western front established
a. Spelled the end of Nazi domination of Europe
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| show | Hitler's last gasp offensive to drive Allies away from the western German border
Brutal fighting in the dead of winter resulted in frightful casualties on both sides.
After Hitler failed, the Allies quickly penetrated deep into Germany in 1945.
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| show | End of the war against Japan: Aug. 1945.
U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Japan surrendered although the emperor was allowed to remain on the throne.
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| show | 1943: First meeting of the “Big Three”—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin.
Stalin insisted on Soviet control of eastern Europe and the carving up of Germany amongst the Allies.
Allies agreed to an invasion of the Western Europe in 1944.
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| Fall of France | show 🗑
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| show | France under the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain from the Nazi German defeat of France to the Allied liberation in World War II.
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| Yalta Conference, 1945 | show 🗑
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| show | July 1945: Stalin, Harry Truman and Clement Atlee
Issued warning to Japan of unconditional surrender or face utter devastation.
Stalin reversed his position on eastern Europe stating there would be no free elections.
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