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Hitler becomes Chancellor
Germany 1932 was in great depression. The economy was weak. Peoples lives were poor, and Germany itself was still humiliated after the result of WWI. The Germans elected Hitler in hopes of a change of evrything as he promised in his speech despite the consequences of harming the Jews and communists. -
Nuremburg laws in effect against Jews
Hitler made and has his rules approved by the Nuremburg party. These laws was a big step in removing Jews from the German society and collecting ‘Aryans’. These rules stated: “deprived Jews of German citizenship, prohibited Jewish households from having German maids under the age of 45, prohibited any non-Jewish German from marrying a Jew and outlawed sexual relations between Jews and German.” -
Italy into Ethiopia
A battle between Italian kingdom and Ethiopian empire. As both countries were member nations but, the people of Italy violated the Covenant of the League of Nations and attacked Ethiopia. Both sides used heavy artillery to attack (guns, trucks, aircrafts). The battle resulted in the victory of Italy gaining Ethiopia’s military forces. -
Italy, Japan, Germany signed anti-comintern pact against Russia
Hitler wanted to be friends with Japan as they were planning a war against China. Hitler was on good terms with China at the time. Hitler made the pact to share common interest with Japan. The aim of the pact was to be against the communist international. They saw how the group was going to make international changes and wanted to put a stop to it. They would endanger internal peace and social well being. Hitler couldn’t get China to sign, but afterwards a lot more countries gave in. -
Anschluss - Germany takes over Austria with no fighting
Hitler wanted to take control of Austria since there were Germans there. When he went to the Austrian government to propose his plan, they denied as it. The Austrian-Germans took action to get their leader in charge. Hitler went again to the Austrian chancellor, this time Hitler proposed that he wanted Austrian-Germans to be in charge of the government or else there would be an invasion. The public got to vote democratically, 90% voted for the shift in power to avoid bloodshed. -
Full invasion and takeover of Czechoslovakia
The first action of taking over Czechoslovakia was Poland and Hungary taking over two sides of the border with the approval of Hitler. Later on a chunk of Czechoslovakia was removed because citizens wanted to make a completely independent state. Slovakia wanted to become independent, Hitler promised the leader of Slovakia that he would protect them. When they became independent, they were already owned by Hitler. Therefore the entire state of Czechoslovakia was taken over. -
German-Soviet Non-aggression pact
This was a pact made between Germany, Hitler and the Soviet Union. Originally Britain and France promised to protect the Soviet Union from the Nazis, but Stalin felt it was safer to be on the same side as the Hitler. This pact stated that the two not to attack each other, not to support any third power that might attack the other party, to remain in contact with each other, not to join any group of powers directly or indirectly threatening one of the two parties, to solve all differences. -
Germany invades Poland with Blitzkrieg warfare
Hitler wanted to gain Poland’s power as it would be made living space for Germans. Now that Hitler had the Soviet Union as an ally, with its military force, they started to attack. They came in with warfare, bombs, air force, navy ships, etc. Germans used a tactic (blitzkrieg meaning lightning war) which had armed division smashing through enemy lines. Poland tried to mobilize troops as were instructed by Britain and France, but were defeated in every manor. -
Britain declares war on Germany
2 days after the invasion of Poland by Germany, Britain and France declared war to honour their pledge to Poland. The first attack was a British ship by the Germans. America remained neutral. Britain started the war off with propaganda in Germany as well in other countries to start preparing. France started to attack the German border 2 weeks after the declaration. Belgium and Luxembourg were also neutral. War was now in development and millions of people would be affected. -
Battle of the Atlantic
This battle was important to Germany for them to be able to stop Britain getting imports from North America (foods, clothes, weapons, etc.) . U boats were loaded with machine guns that were deadly and played a big component in WW1. Germany’s tactic in the Atlantic was to attack in ‘wolf packs’. They would get multiple German submarines to attack the enemy. Britain enhanced their tactics by making strong search lights, patrol aircrafts, radio transmission and U-boats. Britain defeated Germany. -
Canada declares war on Germany
As Britain declared war, the Canadian government approved they would support Britain and France. As soon as that was settled they declared war as well to help Britain. Canada started to prepare defenses on the costal front, even before the war was declared. Quickly thousands of men and women enlisted in fighting and producing materials for Britain and Canada itself. -
Battle of Britain
Germany attacks Britain with series of bombing. Britain knew that they had fewer fighters than Germany, but they had some advantages like an effective radar system which would make sneak attacks less likely. Britain also had superior aircrafts that could defend against Germany’s strong weapons. Single German fighter had limited fighting radius and bombers had limited capacity to attack. Britain had the advantage of knowledge of their land while Germany didn’t, giving Britain an advantage. -
Invasion of Soviet Union
Hitler had the non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, but he only saw that as a temporary tactic maneuver. Hitler named this military invasion ‘Barbarossa’. 3 million 65 thousand German troops invaded Soviet Union. They had no protection/defense as Germany instructed. Germany started to eliminate Soviet Jews, Communists and others who opposed to German forces. The Soviet Union didn’t surrender. When winter hit, Soviet armies struck and slowly decreased German armies. -
Pearl Harbour attack
The Japanese make their way to Pearl Harbour which was a total surprise to America. President Roosevelt knew that this was likely and had the Harbour secured before hand. When military soldiers went to their religious services, the Japanese started attacking. The Japanese came with heavy guns, loaded aircrafts, and battleships. American was weak; navy was small and were outnumbered, leaving Japan with the victory. Days after Germany and Italy declared war on the US and they agreed to it. -
Japanese-Canadian Internment
When news about Japan’s attack on pearl harbour came into Canada, the racism and discrimination for Japanese-Canadians became outrageous. In fears, the RCMP started to arrest any Japanese-Canadian they saw. Some were taken to the highly protected Hastings Park, Livestock Buildings, ghost towns, sugar farms, Camp 101. When Japanese discrimination got worse and all over Canada, Japanese-Canadians were offered 2 choices; to go back to Japan or to disappear into the Rocky mountains. -
Battle of El Alamein
Before the battle, the British managed to regulate Rommel; a German General in a defensive position in Libya. Rommel defied this and put together an army of tanks and air crafts. Rommel then managed to push British forces into Egypt. This was so quick that the British left some supplies and vehicles behind that Rommel took advantage of. Britain fought back using supplies and troops from America, India, South Africa and New Zealand. They pushed Rommel back to his position as defensive. -
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Battle of Stalingrad 1
Germany and its allies fought the Soivet Union to control the city of Stalingrad. There were air raids, close combats and direct civilian assaults. Germany was at the disadvantage in the East and took their rage out in the West with their military force. -
Dieppe Raid
Canadian army launched a major raid on Dieppe. They wanted to test Hitler’s ‘European Fortress’. The raid was designed for allied forces to take a defended port, establish and hold a perimeter around the town, destroy the harbour facilities and then withdraw by sea. Canadian troops attacked guards on Dieppe Beach from 4 sections (Blue Beach, Royal Regiment, Black Watch, Highland Regiment). Canada attacked until every enemy was killed and the raid was over. -
Battle of Stalingrad 2
It was a battle between the Soviet Union or Germany and the axis powers. While Hitler was advancing in Moscow he had to stop because of the red army and an insufficient supply of resources. So he started to head for southern Russian lands to get oil. Hitler then divided his armies into A and B. A was to secure the oil fields. B was to proceed to Stalingrad and capture it to prevent an attack on the German flank. Soviet armies suffered and later German troops suffered, leaving a lot of death. -
Italy Campaign
British and American troops came ashore on Sicily island. Mussolini wanted to gain power but their defeats made this impossible. Citizens in Italy wanted to kill Mussolini, but Germany’s military forces threatened to resist any such action. Later on Hitler had bigger problems than Sicily. American and British forces defeated Sicily guards. From there taking over Sicily’s southern cites was easy and sneaking past German forces across the North Coast got them control over the northern cities. -
D-Day
This was a term used to describe the first day of the Normandy invasion. This was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Allied troops stormed German defences on the beaches of Normandy France to get into Germany from the West. Germany ahd turned the coastline into a tight fortress with guns, pillboxes, razor wire, mines and beach obstacles. The allies defeated German defenses but Canadian troops paid the most with causalities. -
Germany surrenders
Since Germany’s armies dispersed into pockets and not united as one, it was easier for allied troops to beat German armies. Once Germany suffered in Moscow, the ripple affect started. Many of Germany’s allies turned on him and joined Britain's force like the Soviet Union. Now that they were outnumbered and that the cold moved in, Germany would suffer. In the end being unprepared and divided killed Hitler and Germany’s army. Leaving
everyone else with the victory. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The Americans and Germans scientists came together and created the first atomic bomb and decided to drop it on Hiroshima. The bomb killed thousands. The reason why it was on Hiroshima was how discouraged the U.S president Truman was with the Japanese response to the Potsdam Conference. Even though the Japanese were ready to surrender the Americans still insisted. -
Atomic bomb on Nagasaki
Even after the bombing of Hiroshima the Japanese war council didn’t accept the Potsdam Confrence demands. So the American decided to send another message. They named this bomb ‘fat man’. This bomb had the same outcome as the bomb on Hiroshima. After this bomb Japan agreed to the Potsdam's terms.
