HIST 1312 1st Edition Lecture 28 Outline of Last Lecture I Rise of Aggressor States A Japan and Italy II Hitler Nazi Rise in Germany A Repudiation of Treaty of Versailles Remilitarization of Rhineland Selfsufficiency for Germany B Blaming the Jews C Taking of Sudetenland III Nye Committee Hearings A Neutrality Act of 1935 IV Hitler Takes half of Czechoslovakia A Neutrality Act of 1936 V Munich Conference A Hitler takes rest of Czechoslovakia VI Axis Alliance Outline of Current Lecture I Nazi Soviet Non Aggression Pact II Invasion of Poland and Declaration of War A Blitzkrieg III Ships for Bases and Lend Lease IV Election of 1940 V Japanese U S Relations A Pearl Harbor VI War in the Pacific and War in Europe A Operation Torch and Operation Overlord VII V E Day VIII Firebombing in Tokyo and the Atomic Bomb Current Lecture l In 1938 Stalin is the leader of the Soviet Union To stop the Russian army from overthrowing him he imprisons the top part of his army like the generals and sergeants Poland is considered the breadbasket of Europe and Hitler wanted it so he signs the Non Aggression Pact with Russia These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute saying Germany is going to take half of Poland and Russia can have the other half Stalin agrees because he doesn t have his head officials in the army anymore to stop Hitler ll Hitler attacks Poland on 9 1 1939 France and England declare war on Germany on 9 3 1939 Hitler declared war in September because he knew that wars are not fought in the winter so this is called the sitting war although Germany and Britain were not sitting they were both getting their armies ready for war A The Germans attack France and this is called Blitzkrieg because it happened lightning fast They make France surrender and they institute a puppet government in France Now Britain is left to fight the Germans on their own lll In 1940 Britain had more naval bases around the world than anyone else To help them out America exchanged some of our ships loaded with war materials for naval bases that were British Diego Garcia is the main naval base we gain However the British still need more help so we make a Lend Lease deal with them We gave the British bullets and tanks saying they would give them back but we both knew we wouldn t get them back lV FDR talks to Churchill saying that if America is to join the war we want Wilson s 4 main points that we didn t get in the previous war so Britain would have to give up their colonies Churchill agreed in 1940 but he had also talked to Stalin and they agreed that they would divide Europe between them after the war In 1940 FDR runs on the campaign slogan I will not send American boys to fight foreign wars V In 1941 Nazis invade Russia and we extend our Lend Lease deal to them Japan radicals want to attack America but Japan moderates don t FDR puts an embargo act on Japan and the radicals come to control Japanese government and plan an attack on America A Japan attacks Pearl Harbor on 12 7 1941 They bomb air strips and airplanes so they can keep their advantage in the air then they bomb our navy in the water which keeps our navy down for 6 months This was the first time America was attacked Vl FDR declares war on Japan on 12 8 1941 and Germany and Italy declare war on America in return Japan took over Pacific islands so we had to take them back one by one which was very costly in lives and in money Germany starts bombing London civilians at night and so when the British retaliate they bomb Germany at night and America bombs Germany during the day The Russians are fighting with Germany over Stalingrad and the Russians finally win A In 1942 America goes into North Africa and we take control This was called Operation Torch Then we went into Sicily and Italy In Operation Overlord in 1944 we invade Normandy and liberate France Vll V E Day was on May 15 1945 Hitler has committed suicide so his generals are forced to surrender FDR dies and Vice President Harry S Truman becomes President Stalin promised to help America in the Pacific in 90 days after the Europe war was over When Truman becomes President he learns of the Manhattan Project the construction of the atomic bomb Vlll America had already been firebombing Tokyo and more people died from this than the atomic bombs Truman knows using the atomic bomb will save American lives and finish up the war so he says that if by August 6 Japan hasn t surrendered they ll drop the first one on Hiroshima 3 days later if they haven t surrendered the second one would be dropped on Nagasaki They dropped both atomic bombs and V J Day when Japan surrenders occurred on August 15 1945