WW2+and+the+Cold+War

= Old and New Causes of the Second World War = = Unchecked Aggression and the Coming of war in Europe and the Pacific = = The Conduct of the Second Global War = =Nazi Blitzkrieg, Stalemate, and the Long Retreat= =From Persecution to Genocide: Hitler’s War Against the Jews= =Anglo-American Offensives, Encirclement, and the 12-year Reich= =The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire in the Pacific War= = War’s End and the Emergence of the Superpower Standoff = =From Hot War to Cold War= = =
 * Changes in Germany’s power were abrupt and more radical
 * In a time of crisis after the humiliating civil war and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany seemed to be coming back on top. However, after the great depression an economic disaster took hold. Using the peoples vulnerability Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist (Nazi) party created campaigns in promises of a better future
 * Main goal: destroy Soviet Union and dismantling of Versailles settlement
 * In order to make alliances Germany heavily focused on the use of their military to enforce power gaining Italy and Spain
 * Starting point of WW2: Sept. 1, 1939 with Germany’s invasion of Poland
 * Creation of Axis powers
 * In times of Germany power leaders such as Winston Churchill tried to convince nations in aiding to stop the fascist spread however fear of entering yet another war
 * It was the move of the Japanese first against China however that started the violent work
 * Hitler focuses on Slavic East and creating nonaggression pact with Stalin that divided smaller state
 * United states enters war balancing out war outcomes
 * With Germany’s increasing speed within the war it was beginning to seem hopeless. These ideas brought true to the word Blitzkrieg meaning “lightning war”
 * Led by Winston Churchill the battle of Britain commenced with an air attack on Germanic forces
 * Germany fights Europe but bitter winters of 1942 and 1943 keep forces of tilt
 * The destruction of genocide of the Jewish people became the official policy of the Reich
 * Concentration camps (factories of death) where Jew were either put to death of harsh labors in order to aid the war
 * As many as 12 million people were murdered in the genocidal orgy now known as the Holocaust
 * Even with the works of campaigns it wasn’t until the attack of civilian ships on U.S. Atlantic waters did the United states officially enter and aid the Alliances
 * The repel of invading Allied armies became officially known as the Battle of the Bulge which lasted in the winter of 1944-1945.
 * By the early months of 1995 the Allied parties were in the middle of negotiations when by April 30 Hitler had created suicide
 * Allied powers work to end war of Japan and China
 * Battle of the Coral sea then a month later Midway island. These Pacific battles were happening continuously one after another
 * By early summer of 1945 Japanese leaders were sending out peace feelers while frantically leaders continued to aim to fight until death
 * The United nations were created in hopes of extending a renewed peace with axis powers
 * With the establishment of the U.N. international diplomacy and assistance moved beyond the orbit of the Western powers
 * Lasted until the 1980’s
 * The cold war began when the allies began to debate about the postwar settlement (territorial gains)
 * This war consisted of internal conferences of the debates creating the Tehran Conference where the alliance agreed on the invaded regions of France. Where Britain fights for Greece, Hungry, and Yugoslavia
 * Yalta Conference: The negotiations of needed support in order to end officially Japans tirade with negotiations of more land
 * Germany divided into 3
 * Final post war conference of Potsdam in July 1945: Russian forces now occupied most of Europe and Eastern Germany. Soviets take Poland. And the Poles gaining part of eastern Germany in compensation
 * Austria was also divided and a neutrality of peace between the United states and the Soviet union was created.