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- - - - Nations dedicated all available resources
      - Over 8 million soldiers and sailors lost their lives
      - similar number of civilians die
      - 21 million people wounded
    - - Lasted a year
      - Death of over 30 million people, mostly aged 20-40 years old
  - - - France wanted revenge and compensation for the damages done and wanted to weaken Germany as it would never be able to take take up arms again.
      - America wanted to achive lasting peace with a treaty that punished Germany, but not too harshly that they would want revenge one day.
    - - German oublic were opposed to the terms
      - germany knew that if they did not sign, troops would invade Germany and they did not have resources to stop them.
  - - - Germany required to surrender large sections of its territory and all of its overseas colonies.
      - Germany was required to limit its army to 1000000 men who were mostly volunteers.
      - Germany prohibited from possessing an air force, tanks, submarines or heavy artillery.
      - germany was required to accept full responsibility to starting the war and forced to pary reparations (compensations).
      - Agreed that Germany should pay 7 billion British pounds ($526 billion Australian dollars).
  - - - Boost in the economy ans production
      - Inventions - vacuums, washing machines etc. were hot commoditites
      - Led to cultural and economic change know as the Roaring Twenties
      - Bank started giving loans to everyone
      - Companies and people rich
      - Investments increase which increased stock market
      - People started taking out loans to invest more
      - Banks also buying stocks
      - Banks strated borrowing money from customer bank accounts to buy more stocks
      - Economy doing so good that no one noticed
  - - - People who took out loans were now in debt
      - Companies closed down; unemployment increased
      - People were recieving about 10c for every $1 they invested
      - Erasing large chunks of Americas wealth
      - $14 billion lost in one day
      - The money that banks borrowed was lost
      - Banks closed down
      - Millions of stocks start selling everyday
    - - Record price rises
      - Falls in the standard of living
      - Mass unemployment
  - - - Antisemitisim (hostillity towards Jews)
      - 'Stab in the back myth' The idea that Germany was not defeated in WW! but rather betrayed by Jews
      - Built on German nationalism
    - - After coming into power Hitler began to put his beliefs into practice - this period of time was known as the Third Reich
      - During this time
        
        Large organised rallies were used to convince citizens and silence critics
        
        Punishment was severe (torture and concentration camps)
        
        Jew's primary target
        
        People encouraged to report on friends, family and neighborurs suspected of disloyalty
        
        Writers, artists, uni professors and free thinkers also targets
        
        No personal freedom
    - - Hitler's government started implementing many pland and poliicies
        
        Expansion of the military
        
        Expansion of Germany's borders
        
        Persecution of Jewish community
        
        Compulsory sterilisation of Jewish people and those with disabilities
      - After President Hindenburg's death. Hitler combined the roles of Chancellor and President.
      - Start of the war
        
        1 Sept 1939 Nazis invade Poland
        
        3 Sept 1939 England and France declare war on Germany
      - Fall of hitler
        
        Hitler;s populartity remained strong first 3 years of war
        
        In 1942 Germany suffered severe military losses and German cities were regularly bombed.
        
        Germans began to turn against Hitler
        
        Hitler gradually withdrew from public life and directed operations from his underground bunker in Berlin
        
        30th April 1945 Hitler took his own life.
  - - - They believed giving in to Hitler's demands would avoid another war
      - Neither France nor Britain could afford to go to war
      - Some people believed the Treaty was too harsh on Germany and the Hitler's actions were fustified
    - - Increase size of military
      - Increased production of weapons and ammunition
      - Violate terms of Treaty of Versailles
      - Aimed to regain territores taken from Germany
    - - 1938 Hitler demanded the Sudetenland region in Czechoslovakia be returned to Germany and egreed not to make any further claims on territory in Europe - Representatives from Britain, France and Italy agreed.
        
        Germany then invaded rest of Czechoslovakia in 1939
      - 1938 Hitler demanded return of territories in Poland
        
        Britain formed alliances with Poland to huarantee security
        
        1Sept 1939 Germany invaded Poland
        
        Policy of appeasement was abandoned
        
        France and Britain declared war on Germany 3 Sept 1939
      - 1938 Hitler took over Austria- France and Britain did not react.
- - - - The German Luftwaffe had 2, 800 aircradft, which outnumbered the Royal Air Force (RAF) four to one
  - - - Attack begins June 22, 1941, breaking the non-aggreassion pact.
    - - Total of 3400 tanks and 3 million men used in the German invasion
  - - - At the time Germany had 1.5M men in the Army
    - - Divide Poland & non aggression between USSK & Germany
    - - They would send tanks out to quickly overwhelm the enemy, then they would constantly push back enemy forces, as the other soldiers follow behind.
  - - - Part of operation Barbarossa
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- - - - Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF)- 18500 women
      - Australian Women's Amry Service (AWAS)-24000 women
      - Women's Royal Australian Naval Services (WRANS)- 2000 women