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Italian Fascism
Hitlers Germany
Rise to Power, 19241933
The rise of a Nazi conscience Love Germany above all else and love your ethnic comrade as thyself
19th-century Vienna
Hitler and Herzl Zionism/Nazism
Hitler in Power
1933-1939
Nuremberg Laws, 1935
No citizenship for Jews No employment for Jews
1938: Kristlanacht
Massive attack on Jews throughout Germany: synagogues ransacked, executions ordered
Invasions
1. Austria (?)
Austrian coup paves way for Nazis to absorb Austrian government
2. Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland Germans Right of selfdetermination
Hitler invades
Angered, Hitler still takes over Czechoslovokia
Saw Munich as failure
Timeline
Summer 1940: Hitler Invades Denmark, Norway, and France
Breaks through Maginot Line
American Neutrality
Neutrality Acts
Series of laws passed between 1935 and 1938 forbidding the sale of arms to countries at war
Nye Committee
Reinforced ideas about corruption of war manufacturers
American reactions
Oil embargo, July 1941
Japanese Leadership
Prime Minister Hideki Tojo Emperor Hirohito Admiral Yamamoto Minoru Genda
Leapfrogging
Admiral Chester Nimitz
Commanded northbound force Gilbert, Marshall, and Marinara
Battle of Guadalcanal
Meant as air base, Three land battles, five naval battles, daily air assaults Result: Japanese leave, position U.S. to take the offensive
D-Day
Wartime Conferences
Tehran
Operation Overlord Partition of Poland
Yalta
Division of Germany Stalin agrees to a democratic Poland, to fight Japan after German defeat
Potsdam
Recognition of eastern bloc countries Where Truman mentions to Stalin that United States had powerful, new weapon
Homefront
Axis Sally
Lord Hawhaw
Tokyo Rose
American citizen Refused to renounce American citizenship under pressure from Japan Made broadcasts during Zero Hour related to American activities in Pacific