SECOND WORLD WAR TABLE

DAT
ES
1939
1945
Sept
1st
invasion
to
Pola
nd
Sept
3
decl
arati
on
-June
14
1940
invasion
of
Paris

PRELIMINA
RS

CAUSES

Hitler & Germany:

Mussolini
militarizatio
bombard
n
Guernica Hitler
After the
promised to
treaty of
cancel the
Versailles
Treaty of
Germany
Versailles
limited
and achieve
its
a greater
military
Lebensrau
power
m
GB & F
Invasion of
disagree
Czechoslov
ments
akia &
Poland
USA
isolation
policy
Peace
failures
Great
Depression
Invasion of
Manchuria

EVENTS

CHARACT
ERS

ALLIAN
CES

TECHNOL
OGY

aggression
of Hitler in
Poland
-Japan
invades
Manchuria
1931 &
other
Chinese
harbors
1937-38
-Pact of
Munich (GB
& F tell
Czechoslov
akia to
renounce
to the
Sudetes)
-USSR
regains
Estonia,
Lithuania
Latvia
-secret
pact of
Stalin &
Hitler

-Hitler
-Mussolini
-Arthur
Nevillle
Chamberl
ain
-Winston
Churchill
-Stalin
-Rossevelt
General
Eisenhow
er
- Harry
Truman
- Hiroito
- Einstein
Oppenhei
mer
-General
Leslie R.
Groves
-Erwin
Rommell
- Rudolph
Hess
-EVA
BRAUN
(wife)

ALLIES
Great
Britain
France
USSR
USA

-New
weapons
Manhattan
Project
(atomic
bomb)
-Nazis
rocket

AXIS
Germany
Italy
Japan

SYMBOLS CONSEQUE
&
NCES
CONCEPTS
Nazis
Eagle
Lebensrau
m
Anschluss
(German
y+
Austria)
Blitzreig
Holocaust
The final
solution
(Endlsu
ng in
German
Ghettos
Auschwitz

-50 millions
dead
-Official data
talks at least
of 6 million
Jews killed.
- Atomic
radiation
-Genetical
mutations
-Most
countries
were
destroyed
-Economical
crisis
communicati
ons and
transportati
on
destroyed
-Families
were
divided.
-Orphans,
and
illegitimate
sons

-Dec
7
1941
Pearl
Harb
or
-June
6
1944
D
Day
May,
8,
1945
Ger
man
y
surr
ende
rs
Augu
st 6
1945
nuclear
bom
b
-

- Italy goes
to Ethiopia,
Egypt Libya
- Racist
agenda:
discriminat
ion policies
and
concentrati
on camps
as the final
solution:
Endlsung
-Hitler
invades
USSR
(Barbarros
a)
-Invasion
to France &
division
-Pearl
Harbor
.Latina
America
participate
s pressed
by the USA
-Mexico
(201 Squad
25 planes)
-Bombs to
Hiroshima
& Nagasaki

Nurember
g Trials:
*JOSEPH
GOEBBELS
: minister
of
Propagan
da of the
Reich
*RUDOLF
HESS:
(second
after
Goering):
He
jumped in
parachute
to search
for an
agreemen
t of peace
with GB
but failed
*KARL
DNITZ:
Admiral
responsibl
e for the
sea
attacks
*HERMAN
N

-Two huge
power
blocks : the
beginning
of the Cold
War (USA
vs USSR)
- Germany
Divided in
four
-United
Nations
Organizatio
ns
- Trials of
Nuremberg
-RADAR
-MEDICINES
INTERNATIO
NAL
MONETARY
FUND
-USA & USSR
SUPERPOWE
RS

Sept
emb
er 2,
1945
The
surr
ende
r of
Japa
n

GOERING:
Field
marshal
of Hitler,
responsibl
e of the
military
strategy
*HEINRIC
H
HIMMLER
chief of
the SS in
1929 & in
1934
becomes
the chief
of the
terrible
Gestapo

Raul

Weimar republic flag of Germany

Violation of the treaty of Versailles
Germany militarization