Hitler’s plans
- Slavic people would be slaves
- communism and capitalism would be eliminated
events leading up to declaration of war in WWII
- Germany withdrew from league of nations
- rearmament
- Rome-Berlin axis (Italy and Ethiopia)
- occupies Rhineland
- annex Austria
- Munich crisis over Sudetenland
- Germans occupy Prague (Czechoslovakia)
- Germany invade Poland
- declare war
Durnick
WWII
- after Germany invaded France
- British barely escaped
WWII in Africa and Greece
- Italy joined the axis and invaded North Africa and Greece (fail)
- Germany to come in and capture Yugoslavia and Greece
- axis failed to captured Cairo and Suez canal
- this events delayed the invasion of Russia
Japan in WWII
- invaded pearl harbor, Singapore, Philippines, dutch east indies
- these provoked Roosevelt’s trade embargo on oil
US and Britain’s plan for WWII
- offense in Europe
- defense in Asia
Making peace in WWII
- conferences included Yalta and Potsdam
- there was little Britain and USA could do to restrain Stalin unless they wanted WWIII
- unconditional surrender (prevent Stalin from making separate peace)
- united nations
countries absorbed by soviet control after WWIII
-Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria
Italy after WWII
- no more monarchy and democracy
- christian democrats
- rebuilt economy (economic miracle)
Yugoslavia and Albania after WWII
- went communist
- Tito (resistant to soviets)
Greece after WWII
-Greece fought civil war and defeated communists
France after WWII
-4th republic (horrible, Algerian conflict) , but then de gaulle took over
causes of the cold war
- Russia wanted to control Germany and Poland to prevent a repeat of German attacks/communists empire in making
- west didn’t want communist parties to win elections, but most were just hero and did good in elections
- vast communist conspiracy (china, Korean war)
- soviets mad about west not launching a second front/ west wanted stuffing knocked out of USSR
- Marshall plan seen as plot to bribe Europeans
- Berlin blockade attempt to push west out of Germany
- enormous wealth of west was danger to communism
NATO
offense against Russia
Warsaw pact
soviet offense against west
Marshall plan
- helped promote the recovery of Europe
- policy of containment (american influence)
- seen by Russia as a way to bribe Europeans
Truman doctrine
- block expansion of soviet influence into Greece and Turkey
- help countries
MAD
mutually assured destruction
-prevented another general war so long as no accidents or another Hitler came into power
Soviet union postwar world
- Khrushchev (destalinization, Cuban missile crisis)
- Brezhnev (detente, heavy industry)
Britain postwar world
- welfare state
- labor party
- medical care
5th republic
Created by de gaulle after WWII
-after 4th republic
Germany postwar world
- Adenauer
- economic miracle recovery
Adenearu
led Germany postwar Germany
Poland after WWII
- communism
- revolt
- more harsh communist policies (Gomulka)
