World War 2 - Western Civilization, Modern | HIST 101, Study notes of Cultural History of Europe

Download World War 2 - Western Civilization, Modern | HIST 101 and more Study notes Cultural History of Europe in PDF only on Docsity! WORLD WAR TWO 1939-1945 MASSIVE GLOBAL AND INDUSTRIAL WAR THREE FACTIONS: FASCISTS, COMMUNISTS, LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES AXIS: GERMANY, ITALY (TO 1943), JAPAN FINLAND, RUMANIA, HUNGARY, BULGARIA ALLIES: FRANCE, BRITAIN, UNITED STATES, SOVIET UNION, POLAND, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, LUXEMBOURG, ITALY (AFTER 1943), CHINA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, CANADA, SOUTH AFRICA, INDIA, BRAZIL AND OTHERS ROAD TO WORLD WAR TWO PROMOTED BY FASCIST AGGRESSION AND PASSIVE RESPONSE BY WESTERN DEMOCRACIES FASCIST FOREIGN POLICY OF AGGRESSION OCTOBER, 1933: GERMANY QUITS LEAGUE OF NATIONS MARCH, 1935: HITLER RENOUNCES REARMAMENT OCTOBER, 1935: ITALY INVADES ETHIOPIA BRINGS GERMANY AND ITALY CLOSER TOGETHER MARCH, 1936: GERMANS REMILITARIZE RHINE FRENCH FAIL TO INTERVENE 1936-1939: SPANISH CIVIL WAR NATIONALISTS: FASCISTS UNDER FRANCO SUPPORTED BY GERMANY AND ITALY REPUBLICANS: LIBERALS AND LEFTISTS SUPPORTED BY SOVIETS WESTERN DEMOCRACIES FAIL TO INTERVENE ONLY ANTI-FASCIST VOLUNTEERS 1939: NATIONALISTS WIN WITH OUTSIDE SUPPORT APPEASEMENT: BRITISH AND FRENCH POLICY TO APPEASE HITLER AND GIVE HIM WHAT HE WANTED RATHER THAN FIGHT ANOTHER WAR LIKE WORLD WAR ONE NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN (UK) PACIFIST FEELING IN FRANCE AND BRITAIN MARCH, 1938: SUCCESSFUL GERMAN ANSCHLUSS WITH AUSTRIA SEPTEMBER, 1938: 1ST CZECHOSLOVAKIAN CRISIS SUDETENLAND TO GERMANY CHAMBERLAIN PROCLAIMED PEACE IN EUROPE MARCH, 1939: 2ND CZECHOSLOVAKIAN CRISIS GERMANS OCCUPY CZECHS. SEPTEMBER, 1939: GERMANS INVADE POLAND ISSUE OF "POLISH CORRIDOR" GERMAN-SOVIET NON-AGGRESSION PACT WAR BEGINS THE MILITARY COURSE OF THE WAR NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND TACTICS REFINEMENT OF TANKS, AIRPLANES, AND SUBMARINES GERMANS USE BLITZKRIEG TACTICS SEPTEMBER 1, 1939: GERMANY INVADES POLAND FROM WEST FRANCE AND BRITAIN DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY SEPTEMBER 17, 1939: SOVIETS INVADE FROM EAST OCTOBER, 1939: POLAND DEFEATED APRIL, 1940: GERMANS CONQUER DENMARK AND NORWAY MAY TO JUNE, 1940: GERMANS INVADE HOLLAND, BELGIUM, LUXEMBOURG, AND FRANCE "PHONY WAR" BLITZKRIEG ATTACK BY GERMANS VICHY GOVERNMENT AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER, 1940: BATTLE OF BRITAIN GERMAN PRELUDE TO INVASION OF BRITAIN 1940-1943: CAMPAIGNS FOR NORTH AFRICA GERMANS AND ITALIANS FAIL TO TAKE EGYPT 1941-1945: RUSSIAN FRONT GERMANS INVADE SOVIET UNION IN JUNE, 1941 GERMAN DEFEAT AT STALINGRAD (1943) SOVIETS RETAKE LOST TERRITORY (1943-45) SOVIETS OCCUPY BERLIN IN APRIL, 1945 1943-45: WESTERN FRONT FALL, 1943 BRITISH AND AMERICANS INVADE ITALY CAMPAIGN IN ITALY BOGS DOWN JUNE 6, 1944: D-DAY INVASION OF FRANCE BRITISH AND AMERICANS LIBERATE FRANCE INTO GERMANY BY FALL, 1944 DECEMBER, 1944 BATTLE OF BULGE LAST GERMAN OFFENSIVE IN WEST MAY 7, 1945: VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY APRIL 30, 1945 HITLER COMMITTED SUICIDE MAY 7, 1945 GERMANS SURRENDER PACIFIC THEATER 1931: JAPAN INVADED MANCHURIA 1937: JAPAN INVADED CHINA UNITED STATES-JAPAN DIPLOMATIC WAR DECEMBER 7, 1941 JAPAN ATTACKS UNITED STATES RAID OF PEARL HARBOR NAVAL BASE 1942-1945: UNITED STATES DEFEATS JAPANESE MILITARY FORCES AUGUST 6, 1945: ATOMIC BOMB ON HIROSHIMA AUGUST 9, 1945: ATOMIC BOMB ON NAGASAKI AUGUST 14, 1945: JAPAN SURRENDERS END OF WORLD WAR TWO