Modern World History		World Gone Mad II					Mr. Thorsen

The Prelude to Insanity in Europe
	-1933 Germany pulls out of League of Nations
	-1934 Hitler assumes absolute power
	     -rearmament of Germany
	-1936 Rome-Berlin Axis
	-1936 Saar & Rhineland
	-1938 Austria annexation
	-1938 Sudetenland Crisis
		-Munich Peace Conference
		-Daladier (Fr.), Chamberlain (UK), 
        Mussolini (It.), Hitler (Ger.)
		-policy of appeasement
	-1939 Czechoslovakia
	-August 1939, Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

The Madness Begins
	-Axis vs. Allied Powers
	-Sept. 1st 1939 Poland invaded
		-blitzkrieg and the “phony war”
	-the second aggressor 
	-1940 the fall of Western Europe
		-Maginot Line
	-Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain
	-Battle of the North Atlantic
		-the hunt for the Bismarck
	-1941 Tripartite Pact
	-1941 Operation Barbarossa, scorched earth
		-“Stalin knows best!”

The US Enters the Fray time for butt kicking
	-Japanese aggression & Nanking (1937)
	-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere & lack of resources
	-invasion of China (1937)
	-reason for and effect of US ultimatum
	-Pearl Harbor & role of aircraft carriers
	-Hirohito, Tojo, Yamamoto, MacArthur
	-June 4, 1942, Battle of Midway
	-Aug 1942, Battle of Guadalcanal
	-1942-43 Battle of Stalingrad
	-Battle for Africa
		-Rommel vs. Montgomery
	-1943 Allied invasion of Italy
	-1944 Battle of Kursk
	-June 6, 1944, Operation Overlord
	-Generals Eisenhower, Patton, 
	-February 1945, Yalta Conference
	-V-E Day, May 8, 1945
	-German & American technology
-Holocaust

War Drags On In The Pacific
	-island hopping
	-Japanese warrior ethic & kamikaze
	-1945 Iwo Jima & Okinawa
	-Roosevelt dies, Truman takes over
	-Hiroshima & Nagasaki
	-Operation Olympic
	-August 14, 1945 Japan surrenders 

Map Locations
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Mediterranean Sea, Norway, North Sea, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Yugoslavia