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Totalitarianism and World War II. Hitler’s Long Range Plans. Hitler’s view of history. All history is about _____________... Volksgemeinschaft Overturning Versailles Solving the “Jewish Question” Finding Lebensraum in the east for the German people. . 1933-1936.
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Hitler’s Long Range Plans • Hitler’s view of history. All history is about _____________... • Volksgemeinschaft • Overturning Versailles • Solving the “Jewish Question” • Finding Lebensraum in the east for the German people.
1933-1936 • 1933- Withdrawal from the the League of Nations • 1935- Begin rearmament and universal conscription • Aid to Spanish fascists, Remilitarize the Rhineland, Rome-Berlin Axis
1937-1939 • Spring 38-Anschluss with Austria • Fall 38-Sudetenland crisis and Munich Conference • Spring 39-Invasion of Czechoslovakia, agitation against Poland • Allies guarantee Polish security
Blitzkrieg: “Panzer” is short for Panzerkampfwagen (armored fighting-wagon).
These may take some time to load Attack on French (May, 1940) Note the tanks and Stukas in the last few minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkG0KqlMnJI&feature=related Air attack on Crete (May, 1941) Paratroopers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIyRk33pf30
Blitzkrieg on Holland, Belgium, and France (May 10 1940) Creating a “Cauldron” of French and British Troops at Dunkirk
Hitler invades “the center of Judeo-Bolshevism” in June, 1941
1942: Stalin’s Order 227 “Not One Step Back!” • NKVD (Secret Communist Police)
Video Clip—Blocking UnitsStalin’s “Not One Step Back” order (#227)
Racism in propaganda: Anti-Japanese
Japanese belief in Racial superiority Executing Allied POWs Rape of Nanjing
American mistreatment of Japanese, on the battlefield and off