Events+of+World+War+II

Events of World War II by Trevor Muehring __ Beginnings of the War __ · Hitler and Lebensraum (living space) · Anti-Semitism · Germany withdrew from the Geneva Disarmament Conference · Hitler annexes Rhineland à Austria à Sudetenland à Poland · Britain and France declare war on Germany on September 3, 1939 __ Course of the War __  · Use of Blitzkrieg (“lightning war”)  · German Luftwaffe  · Mediterranean Strategy (capturing Egypt and the Suez Canal à shutting off Britain’s oil supply)  · Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor  · French build the Maginot Line (line of armed defenses)  · Germany invades Soviet Union (Battle of Kursk)  · Battle of El Alamein (Rommel is defeated by Montgomery)  · Battle of Britain (civilian bombing to lower morale)  · Battle of Stalingrad (turning point of the war; Germans surrounded and captured)  · Hitler commits suicide after Allied Forces trap him in Berlin) à Germany surrenders  · Americans drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki à Japan surrenders   · Holocaust (Auschwitz; millions of Jews killed)   · Einsatzgruppen    __ After the War __    · Teheran Conference (Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill decided the fate of Germany and the future course of the war)    · Yalta Conference (liberated countries were allowed to hold free elections; creation of the United Nations) · Potsdam Conference (Truman had tensions with Stalin; successful deployment of the atomic bomb) Spielvogel, Jackson J. "The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II." //Western Civilization//. 4th ed. Stamford: Clark Baxter, 1999. 815-844. Print.