Battle of Stalingrad:
- Relationship with Soveits is because we have the same target ‘enemy of my enemy
is my friend’
- Stalin is frustrated and accusatory asking where the second front is to take pressure
of Russia, Stalin states we are holding out
Doomsday attack June 6th 1942 launches attack across English channel
- Hitler didnt know exactly where they would land, fatal but sucess
- Dependant on what beach you landed on, race to Berlin
- Germanys out of men only boys and old men now
April 31 1945
- Hitler commits suicide
- US had been terror bombing, brits duing the night hit any part of the city
- Dresdin raid - 1000 dead, terror bombing city into quiting doesnt entirly work it takes
tanks actually rolling into the city
Pacific
- Jap didng lose from Dec to May
- Battle of corral sea n May was a tie and in June they get confident start to look for
another knock out like Hiroshima
- Use midway as bait
Battle of Midway
- Naval refuilling base
- Japanese want to draw Amercian troops to pacific to trap and wipeout
- They have 4 airsize carriers, we have 2-3
- Biggest leg up is breaking their naval code, every 3rd-4th word
- Turns into naval warfare
- All 4 aircraft carriers sink or are damaged we only loos 1 - turning point
- It total jap only have 6 we can build 1 in months takes them years
- Thet back off assumption is that we have to invade Toyko, has to be from the south
- Jap fortify every island
Island hopping
- Guessing game, allows us to bomb and light up Japaan homeground
Operation downfall:
- Plans written up, secret weapon in New Mexico
- Roosavelt deis of stroke, Truman as secondary does not knwo about the atom bomb
- Enough for 3 atomic bombs
August 6th 1945
- Drop atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki
- Emporor goes on radio and gives up
- After 2 atomic bombs people still did not want to give up
- pro) saved lives by ending sooner
- cons) may have been other options, long term affects
- Violation of geniva convention
, Marhsall Plan:
- Cold war, stalins fault, communism sucks
- Earluerst option of containment
- 13.5 billion package to western european countries
- Theory is that the weakened corrupt countoes are most likely to fall to communism
(most of W europe) so in rebuilding w money its investing in future allies to keep
them from falling to communism
- Dont have much money, in a recession, shows the urgency and priority
- Offers ninet to communist occupeies places and puts propaganda
Arms race:
- 1945, same year the war ends, next one starts
- What do we do with the rest of Germany, break it up
- What do we do with Eastern European countries, Poland Czech ect
The conferences
- Stalin promises at both that hell let countries remain free
- In a matter of months breaks these promises
- Starts talking about world wide Soviet Union
- Military leaders, spies start to panic
- Usa sends half a billion to save Turkey and greece, CIA goes in assasinations
American diplomat in Moscow, Kenwan states that he will stop at nothing, exasberates fear
- USA response to Russian aggression is the containment policy
Containment policy:
- Reshapes economy to try and nurtrailse the rise of communism around the world
- General approach is to contain anwyere their is communist tension/activity
- Both directly and indirectly
- Good vs bad dichotomy
- Leftist communist leaning people become seen as enemy and on the opposite side
fascism and far right leaning is seen as heroic
- Focus people to choose, not a lot of neutrality
Response:
- Stalin pissed, perspective that grabbing this land is self defence and for saftey after
being invaded twice
- Needs a buffer zone, ‘breathing room’
- First he strips germany of anything mechanical, burruing, weakening it
- Starts starving people of West Germany
June 1948 Blockakde:
- Thinks hes gaining leverage through this strategy as he knows allies wont ram tanks
to save former Nazis and start WW3
- They instead transport food by planes
May 1949
- Stalin abandoned blockade, escalates Cold War
- Allies merge together, stalin starts puppet government in Berlin
- Allies form alliance NATO
- US pay majoaroty billions to fund militarisation against soviets
- Warsaw pact of their own
- Back to alliance systems like WW1 but now w nuclear weapons
- Relationship with Soveits is because we have the same target ‘enemy of my enemy
is my friend’
- Stalin is frustrated and accusatory asking where the second front is to take pressure
of Russia, Stalin states we are holding out
Doomsday attack June 6th 1942 launches attack across English channel
- Hitler didnt know exactly where they would land, fatal but sucess
- Dependant on what beach you landed on, race to Berlin
- Germanys out of men only boys and old men now
April 31 1945
- Hitler commits suicide
- US had been terror bombing, brits duing the night hit any part of the city
- Dresdin raid - 1000 dead, terror bombing city into quiting doesnt entirly work it takes
tanks actually rolling into the city
Pacific
- Jap didng lose from Dec to May
- Battle of corral sea n May was a tie and in June they get confident start to look for
another knock out like Hiroshima
- Use midway as bait
Battle of Midway
- Naval refuilling base
- Japanese want to draw Amercian troops to pacific to trap and wipeout
- They have 4 airsize carriers, we have 2-3
- Biggest leg up is breaking their naval code, every 3rd-4th word
- Turns into naval warfare
- All 4 aircraft carriers sink or are damaged we only loos 1 - turning point
- It total jap only have 6 we can build 1 in months takes them years
- Thet back off assumption is that we have to invade Toyko, has to be from the south
- Jap fortify every island
Island hopping
- Guessing game, allows us to bomb and light up Japaan homeground
Operation downfall:
- Plans written up, secret weapon in New Mexico
- Roosavelt deis of stroke, Truman as secondary does not knwo about the atom bomb
- Enough for 3 atomic bombs
August 6th 1945
- Drop atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki
- Emporor goes on radio and gives up
- After 2 atomic bombs people still did not want to give up
- pro) saved lives by ending sooner
- cons) may have been other options, long term affects
- Violation of geniva convention
, Marhsall Plan:
- Cold war, stalins fault, communism sucks
- Earluerst option of containment
- 13.5 billion package to western european countries
- Theory is that the weakened corrupt countoes are most likely to fall to communism
(most of W europe) so in rebuilding w money its investing in future allies to keep
them from falling to communism
- Dont have much money, in a recession, shows the urgency and priority
- Offers ninet to communist occupeies places and puts propaganda
Arms race:
- 1945, same year the war ends, next one starts
- What do we do with the rest of Germany, break it up
- What do we do with Eastern European countries, Poland Czech ect
The conferences
- Stalin promises at both that hell let countries remain free
- In a matter of months breaks these promises
- Starts talking about world wide Soviet Union
- Military leaders, spies start to panic
- Usa sends half a billion to save Turkey and greece, CIA goes in assasinations
American diplomat in Moscow, Kenwan states that he will stop at nothing, exasberates fear
- USA response to Russian aggression is the containment policy
Containment policy:
- Reshapes economy to try and nurtrailse the rise of communism around the world
- General approach is to contain anwyere their is communist tension/activity
- Both directly and indirectly
- Good vs bad dichotomy
- Leftist communist leaning people become seen as enemy and on the opposite side
fascism and far right leaning is seen as heroic
- Focus people to choose, not a lot of neutrality
Response:
- Stalin pissed, perspective that grabbing this land is self defence and for saftey after
being invaded twice
- Needs a buffer zone, ‘breathing room’
- First he strips germany of anything mechanical, burruing, weakening it
- Starts starving people of West Germany
June 1948 Blockakde:
- Thinks hes gaining leverage through this strategy as he knows allies wont ram tanks
to save former Nazis and start WW3
- They instead transport food by planes
May 1949
- Stalin abandoned blockade, escalates Cold War
- Allies merge together, stalin starts puppet government in Berlin
- Allies form alliance NATO
- US pay majoaroty billions to fund militarisation against soviets
- Warsaw pact of their own
- Back to alliance systems like WW1 but now w nuclear weapons
