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Chamberlain was British prime minister between 1937 and 1940, and is closely associated with the policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany. He was noted for an isolationist foreign policy in the build-up to World War II. He played a key role in negotiating the Munich Agreement of 1938, which sought to appease Nazi Germany by ceding control of the Sudetenland region in Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler's regime.

German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich, In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany

Germany was granted the land in the Munich agreement, as long as it was ONLY that land. This was using the policy of appeasement

it was a deal between Germany, France, Britain and Italy that if Hitler was allowed to take over Czechoslovakia and promise not to invade any other countries, then Britain and France,who had a mutual Alliance with Czechoslovakia, would not stop Germany from doing so, But that was not enough for Hitler

Appeasement was when the nations of Europe granted Germany what they wanted to avoid conflict. Of course this appeasement had a limit.

Britain had appeased Hitler and had believed his promise that he wouldn't invade any other European countries. When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia this proved that he had lied and that the only way to stop Hitler and Germany from taking over the world was by war.

nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union that was concluded only a few days before the beginning of World War II and which divided eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence

a secret protocol in the German-Soviet Pact enabled Germany to attack Poland on September 1, 1939, without fear of Soviet intervention.

Germany had invaded Poland using their technique "lightning war," taking down the entire enemy defenses in a short time. This was considered to be the first engagement of WW2

After Germany took Poland France and Great Britain declared war on them, so Germany invaded France, even though France put up a fight Germany had the element of surprise and a new type of Warfare called blitzkrieg, and France lasted 6 weeks, which was great for everyone since France wasn't trashed like the other countries who fought on. They surrendered and Germany was avenged from the Treaty of Versailles and the surrender was signed in the same train car Germany surrendered to the allies in during 1919.

He led Britain's fight against Nazi Germany in World War II. Churchill was a talented orator, giving many stirring speeches to boost national morale during the war. A close friend of American presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, Churchill hoped to join the Americans in building a postwar order that limited Soviet leader Josef Stalin's ability to dominate European affairs.

Nazis attacked Britain. Royal Air Force held them off. Nazis repeatedly attacked at nights, but the British smuggled an enigma machine to decipher messages and battle plans sent by the Nazis. In the end, the RAF prevented the Luftwaffe blitz from causing any serious damage and that's the farthest the Nazis ever got on the western front in WWII.

Hitler believed in conspiracy theories that regarded the Jews as Communists and claimed that they had deliberately made Germany lose World War 1 by causing strikes, subversion and revolution on the home front. He also said that they had deliberately caused the Great Depression.

The SS or Schutzstaffel was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The SS grew from a small personal body guard unit to a powerful force that served as the Führer's "Praetorian Guard." Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS, under Heinrich Himmler's command, was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II.

Commander of the NAZI SS. As head of the SS, he had ultimate responsibility of internal security in Nazi Germany

With the rise of Nazism and increasing anti-Semitism in Europe in the 1930's the Jewish emigration to Palestine increased to 10's of thousands every year. The rate of emigration slowed down during the WWII, but picked up at a much higher rate immediately after the war becoming close to 75,000 per year until 1948.

Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany established about 20,000 camps to imprison its many millions of victims. These camps were used for a range of purposes including forced-labor camps, transit camps which served as temporary way stations, and extermination camps built primarily or exclusively for mass murder

The racial policy of Nazi Germany was a set of policies and laws implemented by Nazi Germany, asserting the superiority of the Aryan race

The Nuremberg laws were antisemitic laws and policies that were implemented by the Germans. These laws prohibited Jews from basic rights.

Isolationism of the US in WW2 kept America busy with its domestic issues instead of going into war in Europe

A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass.

He wrote a letter to President Roosevelt telling him that he and other scientists were trying to purify U-235 for Nazi Germany. It could be then used to create an atomic bomb. Then the US Government put the Manhattan Project in action, to research and produce an atomic bomb

The third and final stage of WW2 history can be viewed as the end-stage, with the landing of the Allies in Italy and France and the fall of the German Reich. This stage began in 1943, when the Allies started with air raids on German cities during the day. The first German city to fall to advancing Allies was Aachen.

The German transatlantic liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, for Havana, Cuba. On the voyage were 937 passengers. Almost all were Jews fleeing from the Third Reich.

Auschwitz is regarded as the most notorious Nazi extermination center. During World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed there, especially in gas chambers

What the Germans called the final solution was a process in which Jews were imprisoned, sent to concentration camps, and murdered.

All of china, and they also got some colonies of the europian countries, Dutch Indonesia, and other colonies of France, England and America(the islands, they did not have main land which belonged to them).

Cryptanalysts exploited Japanese codes. By late 1940, the U.S. Army and Navy could read Japanese diplomatic messages between Tokyo and embassies in London, Washington, Berlin and Rome

The U.S. trades 50 Destroyer ships for leases on Military bases and the Axis Powers declared that as an unneutral act. -The Axis powers were officially formed

US supplies aid and materials to the United Kingdom

The term wolfpack refers to the mass-attack tactics against convoys used by German U-boats of submarines of the United States Navy against Japanese shipping in the Pacific Ocean in World War II

The destruction of the Soviet Union by military force, the permanent elimination of the perceived Communist threat to Germany, and the seizure of prime land within Soviet borders for long-term German settlement had been a core policy of the Nazi movement since the 1920s.

Planes and small submarines attacked Pearl Harbor at 7:51 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941. They chose this time because most people were at church. At 08:30, a second wave of 170 Japanese aircraft, mostly torpedo bombers, attacked the fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor. The battleship Arizona was hit with an armor-piercing bomb which penetrated the forward ammunition compartment, blowing the ship apart and sinking it within seconds.
Overall, nine ships of the U.S. fleet were sunk and 21 ships were severely damaged. Three of the 21 would be irreparable. The overall death toll reached 2,350, including 68 civilians, and 1,178 injured. Of the military personnel lost at Pearl Harbor, 1,177 were from the Arizona.
Japan attacked because they thought they could take over the pacific islands, and if they attacked Pearl Harbor we would give up Hawaii.
Before the attack we stayed out of the problems with Germany and Japan but after the attack, we decided to declare war.

December 8th, 1941, the US declared war on Japan. Three days later Japan's allies, Germany and Italy, declared war on the United States. The United States was now a major part of World War II.

In peace time, the US government used to spend very little, about one percent of GDP. But that changed after World War II when the United States found itself in a global contest against Communism. Ever since, defense spending has never been less than 3.6 percent of GDP. In wartime, of course, the United States spends as much as it can command. In World War II defense spending exceeded 42 percent of GDP in 1944.