WWII Timeline Assignment 1933: Hitler comes to power in Germany Description: This is the beginning of WWII. Hitler is now the main leader in germany‚ and he is persuading everyone with his power of speech to be under his command. Using this Hitler plans to take over the world. He gains the forces of most of germany to aid him in his quest. Germany September 10‚ 1939: Canada declares war on Germany October 1939: Poland Surrenders to Germany April 1940: Germany invades Denmark and Norway
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Italy‚ France‚ and Great Britain signed the Munich Pact‚ which gave Germany the Sudetenland. British Prime Minister Chamberlain justified the pact with the belief that appeasing Germany would prevent war. 1276. Austria annexed March 12‚ 1938 - After the Austrian leader resigned under growing Nazi pressure‚ German troops set up a government called the Ansehluss‚ which was a union of Germany and Austria. 1277. Nonagression pact between Germany and U.S.S.R. August 23‚ 1939 - Germany and Russia
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Women for the Win! Women served an important role in WWII. They not only took the challenge and stepped up to take the places of the men off fighting in the war to work in factories‚ but they also fought side by side with those risking their lives and fighting for their country. They were needed everywhere during the war. There were an unbelievable amount of job opportunities for women during the war and many supported the brave acts of voluntary enlistment. “‘A woman’s place is in the home’
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Nazi and British Propaganda during WWII In this paper I will discuss the use of propaganda before and during the World War II and how it affected British and German society. I will first note that differences in the countries ’ war aims had a great effect upon the success and content of propaganda. Then I will examine how propaganda affected morale. I will describe how hatred and violence were successful parts of the German‚ but not British‚ propaganda campaign. I will then examine how propaganda
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WWII has been one of the most memorable events in history‚ but beneath all of it are the deprived POWS and the confined Japanese-American internees. Louis Zamperini before he was stationed as a bombardier on a B-24 was a olympic runner. Louie had been captured by the Japanese after his B-24 crashed in the ocean and was marooned on a raft with two of his friends. Miné Okubo is a American with Japanese heritage and has a talent for making art. She was going to college for an art degree until she
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Hitler saw the United States as a weak yet overbearing nation that consistently meddled in the affairs of other nations. Hitler saw the USA as an ideological enemy‚ racially mixed and therefore inferior. Hitler rationalized his motives for carrying out WWII with the repercussions of WWI. The Nazi Party believed that the Treaty of Versailles was the destruction of German pride and success at the hands of the Allied nations. Under the agreement‚ Germany was allowed to possess no submarines‚ no military
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Auschwitz is known to be the largest and deadliest of the correction camps during WWII. Many atrocities occurred there that disturbs us even today. It has an extensive history that explains why it was used and how it functioned at the tome were the systematic killing of people was necessary or the Nazis to conquer the nation. Auschwitz was the largest and most deadly of all correction camps during WWII and lives on through infamy through how it was conceived and the reason it came to be‚ its use
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Clearly from these dates‚ the atomic bombs played little to no role in Japan’s surrender. If the second bomb played a key role in Japan’s surrender‚ the date of Japan’s surrender would’ve been sooner than August 15‚ 1945 (which was a whole 7 days after the second bomb was dropped). Japan surrendered specifically on August 15‚ 1945 because of Russia’s declaration of war on Japan followed by Russia’s occupation of Manchuria and subsequent collapse of Japan’s Kwantung Army which numbered 1.2 million
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Prisons Compare and Contrast Prisons systems have changed after the first penitentiary was opened known as the Eastern Penitentiary. The theory of penitentiary was that by keeping criminals locked in their cell with not outside influences so that they can reflect on their past as well as become more religious is a way that the person will change their lives for the better and in return this would reform the person so upon release they were God fearing people that could function in society. These
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General Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War 1036 - Fascist vs Republicans - who else gets involved? - Russia is the only country that comes to the aid of the loyalist republicans with men and money to try and stave off the coup Franco is trying to get involved in. - Franco had help from Mussolini and Hitler < Germany and Italy fascists come to aid - mirrors what’s happening across euroe - American volunteers saw this as their fight to attack fascism < 1000’s of volunteers > artists
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