UGC 112 1st Edition Lecture 21 Outline of Current Lecture I Main Points II Inevitability in History a Propaganda b Hitler s Background III How to Grab and Hold Power a Build Opportunity b Create Opportunity c Build Climate of Fear d Get Popular Support IV WWII Erupts V Devastation of War VI Alternative Methods of Gene Regulation at the Transcriptional Level Quorum Sensing and the Two Component System VII Methods of Gene Regulation at the Translational Level VIII Introduction to Mutations Current Lecture Reordering the 20th Century World 2 Main Points WWII ended Europe s dominance in world Cold War could begin Anti colonialism strengthened Each side became involved with more and more military escalation Morning greeting Grus Gott Greet the Lord Austria Southern Germany Bavaria with its capital at Munich 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 Hitler was born in the Inevitability in history Propaganda Not going to be a map on final exam but there will be a poster and find indirect direct messages conveyed by it Hammer and sickle sign of communist party and soviet union writing is Hebrew The writing says the eternal Jew the picture displays Jew with a beard gold Jews were forbidden to own land They were essential in banking and trade and so forth This is caricature and degradation of a particular group Hitler s background He was the 4th of 6 kids He was unquestionably abused by his father who beat him Four of his siblings died he didn t do well in school When he was 16 he moved to Vienna the capital of the Austro Hungarian empire Was a city ripe with anti Semitism When Hitler arrived there he lived in a shelter for homeless men He wanted to study architecture and the best he could do was illustrate poster cards His Personal Views 1 He was a rabid anti Semite strongly opposed to Jews He saw them as a race Yet Jews were most highly assimilated in Germany and Austria 2 He was a devout militarist war could solve anything in his mind a He was a trench runner NSDAP formation Early 20s he formed the Nazi party national socialist German party Nationalist socialist were very cozy with big capitalists it worked for itself not workers A Punitive treaty b Wanted Germany to renounce the Versailles Treaty c It was impossible for Germany to pay the reparations Putsch jail book This word is like coup d etat While he was in jail he wrote Mein Kampf My struggle while he was in jail The German National Song Deutschlandlied Outside the boundaries of Germany Meuse River that starts in France and goes up through Belgium Memel Adige Northern Italy Belt Expression of nationalism here we have Germans living outside our territory and we should recognize them It was a concept that spread beyond straight geography How to Grab and Hold Power Four things 1 Build on opportunity Versailles Treaty universally aided Occupation of Rhineland most productive area 1820s there was incredible inflation One billion marks for a postage stamp People were paid everyday People were unemployed When the Nazis were elected to power they immediately started a program for public works They developed things People were back at work and finally feeling pride Don t underestimate that opportunity was seized 2 Create Opportunity a Nazi party was most popular at that time Hitler was asked to become the prime minister Reichstag passed the Enabling Acts that said all the power is given to Hitler Dictator rules followed by a whole series of other laws Led to the elimination of Jewish enterprise burning of books etc 3 Build climate of fear a Major concentration camps gays lesbians communists Jews many were killed without trial b Anne Frank ended up dying in concentration camp 4 Get popular support a Germany supported Hitler World War II Erupts When did it start The precipitating event September 1st 1939 US doesn t get involved 1941 pearl harbor in china it started 1937 or 1931 there are four different dates Russian Operation of Barbarossa biggest operation of the war itself Invasion along the front of 1800 miles That 600 000 motor vehicles and a lot of horses as well Incredible number of troops Invasions Asia and Europe Started with Japan 1931 then Italy 1936 vs Ethiopia 1937 japan Germans and Russians invade Poland 1939 and 1 French had learned from WWI they didn t have good defenses before They built at the cost of billions of dollars all along the boundary national line didn t go o Stalin came from Georgia and Hitler came from Austria Yet they were leaders of incredibly organized parties Dutch people for your honor and conscience stand up The struggle against Bolshevism Dutch are really peaceful The day when Germany surrendered everything in the country stops for a couple minutes Saying the superior races should struggle together Nordmenn Nordich code word for Aryan white protestant catholic Devastations of War Stalingrad German troops did not have adequate equipment 400 000 German troops surrendered With that turning point the balance started to shift Americans came in late WWII Deaths study this chart Shows who died in WWII Note distinction between civilizan and military deaths It was a war between armies mostly and navies It was a war of ATTRITION WWII was a war of blitzkrieg of MOVEMENT Until there were confrontations WWII involved air forces navies submarines secret weapons 83 percent came from allied military and allied civilians Amphibious warfare involved island hopping American troops encountered resistance they had never met before Men who faced them felt strongly about the honor of dying for their country they willingly chose death Invasion of china Korea and Taiwan had been annexed Yuan Jung army of Japan started to move into the rest of China starting in 1937 Why this name for a Japanese army The Pacific Theater Why Strike Frist First strike by Japan because they felt they would gain a strategix advantage The strike of pearl harbor awakened US from a long sleep They were ready to lash out retaliate Country attacked and didn t declare war first Nature of Conflict wasn t blitzkrieg on land WWII Stem Timeline Major developments of WWII science and technology Jet engines computers pressurized cabins penicillin