This document contains notes from C Parker on key events of World War 2: 1) It outlines the punitive terms imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles after WWI, including war guilt clauses, reparations, lost territory, and demilitarization. 2) It describes Hitler's rise to power in Germany in the 1930s through use of the SA, eliminating political opponents, and gaining popular support by vowing to dismantle the Treaty of Versailles. 3) It summarizes Germany's rearmament and expansion starting in 1933 through remilitarization of the Rhineland, annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia, and the invasion of Poland which triggered Britain and France's declaration of war in

1. Notes
C Parker

2.  War Guilt Clause.
 Reparations.
 Lost territory.
 Army reduced
 Navy reduced
 Not allowed have airplanes
 Demilitarised Rhineland
 Danzig corridor. Danzig given to Poland
C Parker

3.  Use SA to attack political opponents.
 Night of long knives Rohm killed SA not
needed anymore.
 Uses the political system to win votes.
 Rich industrialists give money.
 1929 wall street crash Germany broke print
money. Nazi look like they are organised.
 Fear of communism Hitler against these.
 Hitler vows to dismantle Versailles treaty
C Parker

4.  Starts to build up army in 1933
 1934 Saar Plebiscite.
 1936March into demilitarised Rhineland
unopposed.
 1938 Union With Austria Anschluss.
 September 1938 Munich conference Sudetenland
part of Czechoslovakia handed to Germany. (Peace
in out Time).
 Appeasement.
 March 1939 Takes over the rest of Czechoslovakia.
 Britain & France guarantee Poland.
C Parker

5.  Nazi Soviet Non aggression pact, secretly
divide up Poland.
 September 1, 1939 Invade Poland Britain &
France declare war on Germany.
 6 Months of inaction called phoney war.
 Denmark & Norway conquered April 1940.
 May 1940 Invasion of France through Ardennes
by passing Maginot line.
C Parker

6.  British and French forces defeated and are evacuated at
Dunkirk.#
 Lend and lease USA loans weapons to GB across north
Atlantic in convoys. Had to get by German U Boats
called Battle of the Atlantic.
 Enigma code broken British could read German
messages to their submarines.
 Operation ‘Sea lion’ Germany prepares to invade
Britain.
 Battle of Britain Germans try to wipe out RAF but fail.
 Blitz Germans start to bomb British Cities London,
Coventry, Liverpool. Ends when they start to invade
Russia
C Parker

7.  December 1941, USA enters the war following
Japanese surprise attack on Pearl harbour
 Late 1942 Germans defeated in North Africa at
the battle of El Alamein.
 Germany invades Russia Operation
Barbarossa. Russians fight back. At Stalingrad
Nazi defeated. Also defeated at Battle of Kursk
greatest tank battle in history.
C Parker

8.  Anzio Bridgehead 1944 Allies invade Italy rout
Germans.
 Normandy and D day June 1944 allies land in
France and start to drive the Germans back to
their own borders.
 Russians invade at the same time from the east.
Germans loose ground.
 Hitler commits suicide April 1945.
C Parker

9.  May 1945 Germans surrender under Admiral
Donitz.
 Japan was defeated by USA at the battle of
midway wiped out the Japanese fleet and in
August 1945 they dropped atomic bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrender war
is over
C Parker