Notes 5/5

• Warsaw pact vs NATO
• Cuba had been a spanish colony
• It had gained independence and was supported by the US
• The united states saw themselves as a stabilizing agent in the region
• Che
• Kennedy plays his hand well and the soviets back down and the missiles are taken out of cuba
• Perestroika
• Gorbachev and Ronald Reagen will have a series of summit meetings ultimately producing a treaty between them
• Boris Yeltsin 
• The SALT treaty
• Strategic arms limitation talks
• Sputnik
• Soviets send it up into space
• America wonders how the soviets have surpassed them in science and technology
• 5 year plans!
• Ghana
• The first former british colony in Africa to become independent
• Post-colonialism

Multiple choice results

41/80

Notes 5/3

• The Philadelphia experiment- working on bombs

• in japan, US bombers had been targeting japanese cityies, including Tokyo
• They wipe out a huge part of Tokyo

Notes 5/2

• de-housing german workers word halt industrialization, or so they thought

Review: 

• The battle of Britain and the Blitz- 1940-1941
• German goes back on the non aggression treaty with Russia and attacks the soviet union
• Stalingrad
• United states will take on Japan 
• Atomic bombs are dropped
• American and British troops down through north Africa and up into Sicily
• D-day
• 1944- Dwight Eisenhower was the general of something
• The battle of Berlin 
• The marshall plan

Notes 4/29

• Paratroopers had been dropped inthe wrong place
• D day, June 4, there is an enormous invasion force preparing to land, and none of the jheaiufdheakfjdshfaliuahduhfliuhajuhfl

Notes 4/28

• Rommel- Hitler's top general for his army
• He fought Hitler's north Africa campaign alongside the Italian Fascists.
• Vichy France is south france, actually

• Pearl Harbor caused the US to enter into the war because they wanted to strike back
• Japanese who lived in America were seen as suspicious
• The American convoys
• This is why Hitler declares war on the US. They were not previously officially at war

Nazis invading Russia

• Nazis invaded and took the city, but then the Russian army surrounded the city and the Nazis were trapped inside
• there were more soviets than nazis
• The germans did have better weapons though
• both sides said no surrender, take no prisoners
• they are gonna fight until the last man
• This battle was the symbolic turning point of the war
• Soviets win

Notes 4/27

• Hitler youth- children in the Nazi party
• all trade unions are abolished, and members of trade unions are enemies of the state
• enemies of the state can be executed
• jews are put in to ghettos 
• homosexuals are rounded up
• intellectuals from uni's with degrees who disagree with Nazi's are rounded up

• George VI crowned in England

• Stalin in Russia
• Stalin has probs already killed about 5 million of his people before the war starts

• Sept 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. THIS BEGINS WORLD WAR II. 
• By september 27, Germany had conquered Poland. 

• France, May, 1940
• Germans came in from Norway
• The Blitzkrieg consumed Europe
• France fell
• The last of the British allies in France leave from Dunkirk under heavy fire from the Germany artillery. That is the end for France. It is divided into Vichy France and South France
• Winston Churchill

• LONDON- SEPTEMBER 1940
• Bavaria, Germany, 1941
• Operation Barbarossa
• German advance was rapid, capturing lots of the Soviet Union
• Over 3 million Soviet soldiers were captured