Chapter+30

old and new causes of the second world war


 * Jpaan and its massively powerful army continued to win until the 1930s
 * nationalists in china started to win and dominate chinese politics
 * the succes of Guomindang worried Japns army officers, who feared that a reuinted china would move to resist, the informal control of the japanese had exerted.
 * the changes in germany were far more aburpt, and more radical
 * just as the economy of the world was gaining its place back in the world the great depressions truck
 * Nationalists socialistic Nazi party captured a steadily rising portion of the votes and parliament seats in a rapid succession
 * hitler stressed the importats of invading the soviet empre.Spanish civil war involved mussolini an dhitler in hope of establishing an aliied regime.

Unchechked aggression and the coming of war in europe and the pacific
 * in 1939, september 1 the world war 2 began
 * japanese seizure was globally seed and became a suspicious invilvement
 * Winston churhcill, warned that a major war was inevitable giving that hitler insatiable ambitions, were kept from power by voters who had no stomach for anothe rowrld war.
 * the japanses moved firsst even though many think nazi's were the cause of the second world war
 * they met with great success, and occupied the most coastal cities, including changhai, and by the 1938, canton as well as the hinterlands behind cities in the north.
 * the japanses found themselves plugging into war without coordination, or even a serious consultation with their likely allies.
 * Hitler now concerned his forces on the drive to the slavic east, which he beliebed wouyld be the home for the master german race
 * he wanted to by time for their collision between his army and the soviet union
 * the bruatl nazi invasion of poland on septembner 1, 1939, put an end to any ligering doubts about hitlers contempt for treaties and repeated assurances that germany's for treaties and territorial ambitions had been satified by the absorption of czechoslovakia.

The conduct of a second global war.


 * the u.s entered the war as soonas the nazis became boogged down of the russian expansion and steppes and the united states enetered the war.
 * Nazi, Blitzkrieg, stalement, and the long retreat- as the japanese bogged down china and debated the neccesity og tangling with the united states and the european colonial powers, the nazi was machine captured france, and the low countires with stunning speed.
 * blitzkrieg, or also know as the lightening war involved the rapid penetrating of enemy territory
 * the rapid collapse of francewas in aport a consequence of the divided and weak leaderhsip in republic had displayed in the successive crises of the late 1930s
 * Vichy- where nazi puppet regime was centered
 * battle of britain was due to a ix of a strong leadership by churchill and a very able coalition cabinet, innovative air tatics made possible by the intro of radars.
 * germnay controlled most of the continent by the mid 1941 and miuch of the mediterranean.russian resistance siffened as weinter approached, and the german drive east stalled on the outskirts os moscow.

From Persecution to Genocides


 * hitler steppe dup ther vendetta against the gypsies, homosexuals, and especially jews.
 * the destruvtion and the attepmt to remove jewish culture and its people from the face of the globe was on hitlers top five list to destroy.
 * the more they suffersed they made the jewsih suffer as well.
 * jewsih were identified and arrested throughout the nazi empire
 * they were tranported to ghettos, and weres ent to concentration camps without knowing that thier destinies were to be killed ,and burned to death.
 * this time period of germany cruelty was known as the hoocaust.
 * 6 million jews were wiped out of the map during this time period and were punished simply because of a mans range, and hatred towards their culture and "people"

Anglo-american offensives, and encirclement, and the end of the 12 year reich.
 * british were on the struggle for survival that they could provide little relief for their soviet allies, hard pressed by what some have seen by hitlers foolhardy invasion of russia.
 * the u.s weas providing a great assistance, including military supplies, to beleaguered briatian. FDR was quite openly sympathetic tot he british and esrtabvlished a good working relaitonship with churchill.
 * german uboats attacks on shipping crossing the atlantic destroyed many navy ships from the british and the americans later on.
 * battle of Bulge in the winter of 1944-1945, by early in 1945, the allies had invaded germany form the west.

The rise and fall of the japansese empire in the pacific war


 * pealr harbor on december 7, 1941, the japanese had been engaged ion a major war on the chinese mainland.
 * even after this event, roughly one third o f the japanses military forces would remain bogged down in china.
 * japanses empire was much over the southeat asia, and far into the pacific.
 * through the impressive in size and speed with nwhich it was formed, the japansese empire soon proved higly vulnerbale to the allied forces.
 * battle of the coral sea- where the united states naval and airforces fought the japnese.
 * Midway island was the U.S's victory
 * by the early summer of 1945, japansese leaders were sending out peace feelers, while the more fantatical elements in the amry were promising to fight to the death.

Wars end and the emergence of the superpower standoff


 * 1. Using Scribble Maps outline the nations that you think are included when we discuss "The West". After embedding the map explain your rationale

2. Read p. 673- 678 - and 690 - 695 Outline notes**


 * The Roaring Twenties**
 * changes in women's roles, and tensions with the United states and Japan grew
 * new authoritarian movements surfaced in eastern europe and italy\
 * postwar challenges to western european societty were immense
 * property damge and economic dislocation added to the problems because wartime governemnts had printed new money rather than raise taxes.
 * a new democratic republic in germany made some postive strides, despite the burdensome reperations payments the world war 1 victors had required
 * the cubist movement- led by Pablo Picasso, that rendered familiar objects in geometrical shapes
 * writers and composers also challenged stylistic traditions
 * 1937- full scale japanese invasion of china
 * achievements in science was albert einsteins ground breaking therioes of relativity in physics, knowledge of atomic structure and also of genetics
 * the mass consumption such as th radio were important
 * middle class women gained new participation in popular culture, some of them going to night lcubs, smoking, an dparticipating in dance crazies.

Industrial centers
 * canada, australia, and new zealand gained rewards for their loyal participation in world war 1
 * several conferences in the 1920s confirmed the independence of the dominions


 * 4. Read chapter 31p.732 - 750**
 * **What were the major effects of decolonization post WWII on Europe?**
 * How did the Cold War divide Europe? What were the implications of this division?
 * Why did European governments move towards Liberal Democracies?
 * What was the welfare state? Why did they develop? what were the issues?
 * Trace growing diplomatic relationships within Europe
 * Outline economic development in Europe
 * Outline the post war development of the non-European West (Excluding the United States)
 * Explain the growing role of the United States in world affairs
 * Trace developments for women in the post war West
 * Outline cultural developments in Europe.