Players of the war

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Axis Powers

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Allied Powers

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Activity 111 (page 126).

Comparing WW 1 & WW 2.

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Key events of WW 2

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EUROPE

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September: Germany invades Poland; WW2 declared.

1939

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1940

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1941

Operation Barbarossa

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1943

USSRs counter-attack; liberation of Stalingrad

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1944

July: D-Day: Allies in Normandie.

August: Liberation of Paris.

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1945

February: Allies invade Germany.

May: Russians reach Berlin; Germany surrenders; Hitler commits suicide.

July: Postdam Conference.

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ASIA-PACIFIC

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1941

Japan attacks Pearl Harbour.

USA declares the war to Japan.

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1942

Japanese invation of Hong-Kong, Singapore, Philippines, Malaya, Burma & the East Indies.

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1945

Yalta Conference (Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin).

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1945 (2)

Atomic bombs over Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

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Africa

Erwin Rommel

A panzer, El Alamein, 1942

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Montgomery, leading the Allies forces21

Casablanca conference, 194322

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Why did Hitler start it all?

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Adolf Hitler:

The most complex figure in modern History.

Nazi & swastika: a terrible negative term.

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A symbol for the Hindu Kings.

Meaning the sun.

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Now, the meaning is racial hatred & intolerance.

It is a banned symbol by most western societies (France or Germany).

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1920s: Hitler wrote a book titled Mein Kampf.

Two basic ideas:

The superiority of the Aryan race.

The Jews want to take control over the world.

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Arno Brekers Die Partei

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The hatred for the Jewish is called anti-Semitism.

This was the root for the Nazi philosophy.

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Final Solution

Holocaust: burning sacrifice.

Death camps: systematic genocide.

Genocide: a massive crime against human beings (national, ethnic, religious, racial reasons).

Six million Jews murdered (most in gas chambers).

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Nuremberg Trials

Crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis.

We are not guilty, we were only obeying orders.

Even in war there are rules.

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Hermann Gring

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Hermann Gring

The most important surviving official in the 3rd Reich after Hitler.

He commited suicide (poison).

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Disney movies - propaganda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8bCuNiJ-NI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llWblH_LZ8Y&feature=related

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D-Day

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A day that will live in infamy

Roosevelt signing the Declaration of war against

Japan

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USA-Japan, signature of the surrender of Japan (1945, USS Missouri) 44