World+War+II

World War II Jake Blotsky & Brodie Black 1939-1945 media type="custom" key="15428890"

// "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" Winston Churchill //

Terms: 1. Appeasement: A policy that was based on the belief that if European states satisfied the reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers, the dissatisfied powers would be content, and stability and peace would be achieved in Europe. 2. Sanctions: Restricrtions intended to enforce international law the United States used economic sanctions against Japan if they did not leave the area and return to the Japenese mainland. 3. Blitzkrieg: The main tactic used by Adolf Hitler in World War II Blitzkrieg was focused on speed blitzkrieg means lightining war in German. 4. Partisans: The restistance fighters in Italy they shot and killed Mussolini on April 28, 1945 days before Adolf Hitler commited suicide in a bunker under Berlin. 5. Genocide: This is what Hiltler's "Final Solution" was the mass killing and physical extermination of the Jewish people this was upheld by the SS. 6. Collaborators: People that helped Hitler and the Nazis these people helped the Nazis hunt down and kill the Jewish people. 7. Demilitarized: Eliminate or prohibit weapons, fortifications, and other military installations. Even though Rhineland was a part of Germany it was still considered demilitarized by the Treaty of Versailles. 8. Mobilization: The process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war. 9. Kamikaze: Japanese for Divine Wind, this was a suicide mission in which young Japanese pilots intneitonally flew their airplanes into U.S. fighting ships at sea. 10. Cold War: The period of political tencion following World War II and ending with the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980's. Links: Concentration Camps- This web page gives a lot of information on about the holocaust concentration camps. Enola Gay- This wiki page gives all there is to know about Enola Gay and the bombing mission. Kamikaze Pilots- This page gives the cultural background and the whole recruitment and training process of becoming a kamikaze pilot. Hitler Youth- This was an organization created by Hitler to train kids to become nazis and this tells all about the organization. Blitzkrieg Warfare The Germans relied on this style of warfare pretty heavily and they used it for awhile and became successful with it and this tells all about it. Operation Sea Lion- This was Germany's plan to invade Great Britain during WWII and this tells about the plan and all the military forces used. Attack on Pearl Harbor- This was the Japanese attack against the USA in Haiwaii and this tells all about the whole deal behind the attack. The Free French- This webpage gives all the information about the organization of the Free French and what they did. Mein Kampf- This tells about the ideas and information included in this book by Hitler.

Timeline: 1935- Hitler violates Treary of Versailles. 1936- Hitler and Mussolini create Rome-Berlin Axis. 1936- Germany signs separate pacts with Italy and Japan. 1939- Britain an dFrance declare war when Germany invades Poland. 1940- France falls to Germany. 1941- United States enters war after Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. 1942- Nazi death camps in full operation. 1945- Japanese surrender after United States drops atomic bombs on Japan. 1945- Germany surrenders. 1946- Churchill proclaims existence of "iron curtain" in Europe.

People: 1. Adolf Hitler: Hitler was the Chancelor of Germany and led the Nazi republic into World War Two was elected into power during the Great Depression. 2. Winston Churchill: Churchill was the first to spot Hilter's crazyness before he was elected he wanted Hitler gone after the war started people listened to him and he was elected to Prime Minister. 3. Franklin Roosevelt: Roosevelt was the president during most of World War Two he led the United States out of the Great Depression and through the European theater of the war. 4. Joseph Stalin: Stalin was the leader of the USSR after Lennin died during the war Stalin allied with Allies after being attacked by Germany and the Axis powers. 5. Benito Mussolini: Mussolini was the facist dictator that rose to power during the great depression along with Hitler he was later killed by the Patisans. 6.Douglas MacArthur: MacAurthur was the General that led the Pacific campagin aginst the Japenese during World War Two used Island Hopping tactics. 7. Erwin Rommel: Rommel or the Desert Fox as he was known was the commander of the North Africa forces was later traped in Tunisa and fled to Italy 8. George Patten: Patten (Old Blood and Guts) led the 3rd and 7th army with General Montgomery to invade the Italian mainland in September of 1943.. 9. Georgie Zhukov: Zhukov was a Soviet marshal during the battle of Stalingrad he led the Red Army to defeat the invading German and Axis powers in the turing point of World War II. 10. Dwight Eisenhower: Eisenhower was the supreame commander of the Allied Forces in Europe he helped to lead the D-day attack agaist the Germans and the axis powers.



The second World War started all becuase of one man and his views that man was Adolf Hitler. He started the war by invading the surrounding countries and breaking the Treaty of Versailles by remilliterizing different areas of Germany and the Rhineland. Before Hitler invaded Poland the British said that if he invaded Poland that they would declare war aginst Germany. Hitler ignored the threat made by the British hopeing that they would not call his bluff. Soon there after the British declared war. One of the first things that Hitler did was sign a treaty with the USSR so he would not have to fight a two front war like the Germans had to do in the first World War. The first years of the war the Axis had the most power Hitler had joined forces with the Italins and later on the Japenese.

Once the Japenese attacked the Americans in Pearl Habor on the 7 of December 1941 the Americans changed their views from staying out of the war to joining at all costs. After this point in the war the Allies start to gain power in Europe. In the Pacific Theater the Americans were fighting by themselves the other European countries use a policy called Europe First. This focused on defating the Germans first then turing their attention to the Japenese in the Pacific. After the Battle at Stalingrad the Allies start to go on the offencive. On April 30th 1945 Hitler commited sucidie in a bunker under Berlin. On May 7 the last of the German commanders surrendured the war in Europe was finnaly over.

The war in the Pacific was fought by mostly the Americans and Soviets. The allied offencive started on June 4 at the battle of Midway. Midway island is located about half way between Japan and the mainland United States. During this time General MacAurthur used the tactic of island hoppling. Island Hopping is when you skip diffrent island to attack and gain the most important islands tacticly. Using this tactic the Allies be cames sucsessful in the Pacific. When Harry Truman became president after Roosevelt died he decied to use the newly discovered Atomic weapons against Japan. On August 6th 1945 the first Atomic weapon was used at Hiroshima. A few days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The Japanese surrenderd on August 14 World War Two was finnaly over.