HIST 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Gestapo, Appeasement
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● World War 2
○ 1914
■ First time the Term world war is used (1 and 2)
○ 30’s fear of another war
○ 1937
■ Expectation war would start
○ Hitler remilitarized the rhineland
○ Starts when Germans invade Poland
■ “Phony war”
● Next few months
○ Germans sit on France border and France doesn’t attack
○ 1940- Germany goes on offensive again
■ Germans invade
● Use Blitzkrieg
● Military Strategy
○ Winston Churchill takes over as Prime Minister in Britain
■ Same day german army invades france
○ France is taken out by Germans in a month
■ Northern France is German occupied
■ South is free “Vische Govt”
● South Withdraws
○ Dunkirk
■ Myth of the little ships
● British govt. Emphasizes that sailors help evacuate the British
Army (From France)
○ The New Home Front
■ Relatively the same as WW1
● Slightly turned up
■ Food needs to be rationed in Britain
● German’s are sinking their food supply
■ National industries are taken over
● War socialism returns
○ Socialist party in govt. Runs the domestic side of the war
○ Conservative party ran military
■ Community spirit in Britain
● Everyone helps one another
○ All in the war together
■ Govt. can arrest anyone supposed to be german sympathizers with no trial
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Document Summary
First time the term world war is used (1 and 2) Germans sit on france border and france doesn"t attack. Winston churchill takes over as prime minister in britain. France is taken out by germans in a month. Food needs to be rationed in britain. Govt. can arrest anyone supposed to be german sympathizers with no trial. Many more people survive here than the death camps. Goal is only prison labor, not death. Death camps-they just kill you in death camps. Germany wants to get rid of the ussr/poland. Kill as many jews as possible here towards the end of the war. Civilians are shot and killed on the spot. Most victims of holocaust came from ussr. Churchill and roosevelt never really got along. Frustration due to the conservative party doing nothing during the great depression. Both conservatives and socialists agree to take action on domestic issues.
