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KLA 4: |
1939 to 1945 |
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Battle of Normandy (D-Day) (overlord) |
June 6 1944, north west France, thousands of people died. soliders planned to land of different beaches, Utah Omaha Gold Juno and Sord, tried to capture Axis land and move into western Europe to revoke and stop the spread of Nazism. Canadian, British and American. used the shelter of the sea cliffs, new age technology like machine guns, tanks and mines. |
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Battle of Stalingrad |
July 17 1942, 1.5 million dead, Hitler attempted to capture Stalingrad as it was named after the soviet leader. Nazis able to push soviets out, Luftwaffe guerrilla warfare used. however, as winter approached, the Germans were unable to fight successfully as they were unequipped for the weather, making them weak, River Don froze and supplies shut off, Russians able to recapture the city as they surrounded Germans. thousands of men starved and froze |
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Battle of Berlin |
Hurrican and Spitfire destroyed the lives of thousands of Berliners, forced in underground bunkers with no running water or electricity, so close to western civilisation. |
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Battle of Malta |
Mediterranean island, forced in rock caves in the islands shore, constant gun shots and bombing. Malta was a British port, crucial for the invasion on North Africa |
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KLA 1: |
1929 to 1934
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roaring 20's |
Time of prosperity, "revolution of social morals and manners", introduction of consumer culture, sense of hope after WWI |
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Germany after WWI |
reduced to poverty, illness and unemployment, made vulnerable to an economic crisis such as the Great depression. After WWI Germany was made a republic by socialist Friedrich Ebert, after years of autocracy. |
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Treaty of Versailles |
reparations had to be made in goods and money, treaty was a crippling blow to the recovering economy |
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Wall street crash |
October 1929, Wall Street Stock Market crashed due to long term and short term causes in the US. overproduction of goods, shares bough on credit. companies allowed the general public to become investors , more realistic and financially available. America needed money to help fix the depression, called on Germany for there loans to be repayed "hooverville" Herbert Hoover |
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Germany |
people began to resent the Weimar Government because they didnt get out of the treaty, invasion of the Ruhr, hyperinflation, issued an emergency decree |
