ISS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lebensraum
Document Summary
Labor and death camps and victims of the holocaust. Ex: people trying to go home and back to their families, jews try to go back to a newly formed israel. Japanese wanted to expand so they attacked chinese people. Japanese troops were supposed to make china un-livable, there moto was burn all, steal all, and kill all. People in soviet union were attacked by germans. Nearly 1 million people died of cold, hunger and disease. 1949-b29 took off towards japan, they bombed most major cities. August 1945- the atomic bomb made japan surrender. Russians got to berlin first, many women were raped. Western front took place in france and belgium. September 1 1939: invasion of poland, official start of wwii in europe. Lebensraum and resettlement of ethnic germans in occupied territories to east. Poland falls in about 4 weeks from nazi and soviet union invasion. 1940: germany occupies denmark, norway, belgium, and france.
