Path to War
Hitler became Chancellor Jan 1930
Germany withdraws from League of Nations Oct 1933
Hitler announces German air force Mar 1935
Mussolini Invades Ethiopia Oct 1935
Hitler occupies Rhineland March 1936
World War II
German, Italian and Japanese offensive maneuvers went unchecked
Western fears exaggerated ideological tension
Depression further compounded political tensions
1939
World War II
AXIS POWERS:
Germany
Japan
Italy
Battle of Normandy
Propaganda
The Holocaust
Experiments
High-altitude
Freezing
Seawater
Malaria
Mustard Gas
Sulfanilamide
Bone, Muscle, and Nerve Regeneration and Bone Transplantation
Epidemic Jaundice
Sterilization
Spotted Fever
Poison
Incendiary Bomb
Twins
Artificial insemination
Other medical experiments
Death Toll
50 million people died
20 million of them in the Soviet Union
17 million in battle
18 million civilians
78,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
6 million in Nazi gas chambers
1 million Jews in the Einsatzgruppen
80,000 racially “unfit, mental and physical defects” by T-4
The War is Over!
Pearl Harbor, Dec 1941
Roosevelt died April 12, 1945
Harry Truman
Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam
United Nations
Germany is divided
Russia gets Eastern Europe (annexed Poland)
Japan is reduced and put under U.S. influence
Colonial holdings reconfirmed
Repositioning of the West
Loss of population
End of colonial empires
Advanced weapons monopoly declines
Trade monopoly declines
Economic strengthening of non-Western nations
Technology made isolation impossible
Defining the 20th Century
WWI
The Great Depression
WWII
Resolution of the Cold War
Global population tripled
Sunday, March 7, 2010
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