World War II

Hitler's War Aims

• Lebensraum
• Racial Conquest
• Aryans vs. Slavs
• German Unity
  • Political Uniformity
  • Racial Purity
  • Anti-Semitism: elimination of Jews
• German Greatness

1938

• Austria
• Czechoslovakia
• Munich Conference
• Neville Chamberlain

1939

• Invasion of Czechoslovakia
• Nazi-Soviet Pact
• Poland
• Blitzkrieg
• Phony War (Sitzkrieg)

1940

• France
• Tanks
• Dunkirk

Hitler's New Order

• German Superiority
• Anti-semitism
• Concentration Camps
• Auschwitz
• Winston Churchill
• Battle of Britain
• Spitfire
• Radar

1941

• Soviet Union
• Barbarossa
• Pearl Harbor
• Japan
• General Zhukov

1942

• North Africa
• Rommel
• Montgomery
• Stalingrad
• Red Army

1943

• Russian Advance
• V-2

1944

• Normandy
• Fire Bombing of Germany and Japan
  • Dresden before after
  • Tokyo
• Concentration Camps
• Rape

1945

• Yalta
• Death of Roosevelt
• April 1945--Hitler, Mussolini
• Hiroshima
• Origins of Cold War