hitler and wwii

Adolf Hitler, and Some Key Events of WWII:

Adolf Hitler, and Some Key Events of WWII Mr. Durst, U.S. History (10 th Grade)

ORIGINS:

ORIGINS Hitler was a good student in grade school, but when he got to high-school he failed the first year, as he had no ambition other than to be an artist. His teachers claimed he “had no desire to work.” At 18, he moved to Austria’s capital, Vienna, and was rejected from the Academy of Fine Arts. Twice. This crushed young Hitler, whose mother had just recently died of breast cancer. He became destitute by 21, had to live in poorhouse and became an anti-Semite (which was a prevalent trend in Vienna at that time).

EARLY POLITICAL CAREER:

EARLY POLITICAL CAREER Military service- Hitler served in the 16 th Bavarian Reserve as a messenger during WWI, was lucky to survive. Munich beer-hall meetings and Putsch Revolt- 1924 Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison for treason, writes MeinKampf in jail. Joins National Socialist Party

RISE TO POWER:

RISE TO POWER 1932- Germany crippled by the Great Depression, all-time high inflation. -Nazis (National Socialists) become Germany’s biggest party, Hitler runs for Chancellor against Hindenburg and wins following Reichstag false-flag attack (blames Communists)

1934 Nuremburg Rallies:

1934 Nuremburg Rallies http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5958488170373081347 Excerpt from German Propaganda film “The Triumph of the Will”, by female director LeniReifenstahl

WAR STRATEGY:

WAR STRATEGY Hitler dupes Britain’s P.M. Chamberlain After promising an end to German aggression, Hitler invades the Rhineland/ Sudatenland , followed by Poland and Holland.

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Appeasement : The Munich Agreement, 1938 Now we have “peace in our time!” Herr Hitler is a man we can do business with. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

PHILOSOPHY:

PHILOSOPHY Obsessed with blaming the Jews for all of life’s ills, including his personal problems Claimed the Jews were the natural enemies of the white race, who he called the Aryans. Solution? Eradication/ Gencide and Eugenics

DOWNFALL:

DOWNFALL Japanese sneak-attack on Pearl Harbor finally gets U.S. to join the Allies Hitler gets greedy, betrays Stalin and invades Russia (in the dead of winter, which leads to complete disaster for his troops on the eastern front) Continued intense aerial bombardment of German cities by U.S. airpower (Dresden decimated by firebombing) 1945- Oppenheimer (American scientist) creates A-Bomb and U.S. uses it on Hiroshimi and Nagasaki, but after Berlin already taken (most of the credit for this goes to the Russians). Hitler commits suicide in his bunker.

Goering on trial post WWII (Nuremburg):

Goering on trial post WWII (Nuremburg)

FINAL RESULTS OF THE WAR:

FINAL RESULTS OF THE WAR Nuremburg Trials Bretton Woods Conference creates: United Nations, IMF and World Bank (all dominated by the world’s new superpower, America!) Cold War begins with Stalin’s imperial ambitions (and fueled by Soviet feelings of being slighted following Yalta and lack of U.S. forces helping on the Eastern Front.

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WW II Casualties Country Men in war Battle deaths Wounded Australia 1,000,000 26,976 180,864 Austria 800,000 280,000 350,117 Belgium 625,000 8,460 55,513 1 Brazil 2 40,334 943 4,222 Bulgaria 339,760 6,671 21,878 Canada 1,086,343 7 42,042 7 53,145 China 3 17,250,521 1,324,516 1,762,006 Czechoslovakia — 6,683 4 8,017 Denmark — 4,339 — Finland 500,000 79,047 50,000 France — 201,568 400,000 Germany 20,000,000 3,250,000 4 7,250,000 Greece — 17,024 47,290 Hungary — 147,435 89,313 India 2,393,891 32,121 64,354 Italy 3,100,000 149,496 4 66,716 Japan 9,700,000 1,270,000 140,000 Netherlands 280,000 6,500 2,860 New Zealand 194,000 11,625 4 17,000 Norway 75,000 2,000 — Poland — 664,000 530,000 Romania 650,000 5 350,000 6 — South Africa 410,056 2,473 — U.S.S.R. — 6,115,000 4 14,012,000 United Kingdom 5,896,000 357,116 4 369,267 United States 16,112,566 291,557 670,846 Yugoslavia 3,741,000 305,000 425,000