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1939-1945
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What happened to The Treaty of Versailles??? The
14 points??? No more wars!!!!!

The Germans said that this treaty caused anger
and resentment. The Germans also said their was
nothing in this treaty for them. So thats way
they just had to start the WAR. Then more
problems came about with the democratic
government, the Germans set up after WW1.
President Wilsons plane for Peace and The
hope of a world safe for democracy was not
happening!!! When the new democracies collapsed,
the dictators took the power.
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Joseph Stalin

• A Russian man
• Last name means man of steel
• Stalin took control of the country
• Wanted a model communist state
• Wanted the Soviet Union to form rural areas to
  industrials
  
• Any one who threatened his power would be killed!
  
  
• Estimated of deaths 8million to 13million
  people
  
• Stalin established totalitarian government
  that maintained complete control over its
  citizens. in 1939.

One of the several million Ukrainians essentially
starved to death by Stalin.
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The Rise of the Nationalism,1922-1941

• Joseph Stalin grabs control of the soviet union
  in 1929 and squelches all oppositions after
  V.I.Lenin, founder of the communist regime,
  dies.
• Adolf Hitler offers economic stability to
  unemployed Germans during the great depression
  and becomes chancellor in 1933.
  
• Benito Mussolini rises to power in 1922 and
  attempts to restore Italy to its former position
  as a worlds power.
  
• Francisco Franco leads the rebel Nationalist army
  to victory in Spain and gains complete control of
  the country in 1939.
  
• Hideki Tojo the force behind Japanese strategy,
  becomes Japans prime minister in 1941. Emperor
  Hirohito becomes a powerless figurehead.

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Benito Mussolini

• Extreme nationalism
• Militaristic expansionism
• Charismatic leader
• Private property with strong government controls
  
  
• Anticommunist

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Adolf Hitler

• Extreme nationalism and racism
• Militaristic expansionism
• Forceful leader
• Private property with strong government controls
  
  
• Anticommunist

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Hows the US responding to all of this?????

• As in WWI the US thought they shouldnt go into
  war
  
• In 1939 France and Britain were fighting Hitler
  so that would keep the US out of war for a while.
  
  
• In 1940 a mutual defense treaty, The Tripartite
  Pact was signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.
  They became known as Axis powers. They were to
  keep the US out of war.
• So if the US did decide to go to war they would
  need a ton of luck with having a 2-ocean war,
  fighting both in the Atlantis and Pacific.
  
• Germans fire on us bit thats not what brings the
  us to war.

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What lead the US to war???

• The British were busy fighting Hitler to take
  care of the US. Japan already took over
  Manchuria and was invading china. So only the US
  and the Pacific islands were in the way of
  Japan.
• The US military broke the Japans secret
  communication code and found out that Japan was
  working on a strike.
  
• Roosevelt warned everyone and sent out peace
  acts, and then months later Japan rejects the
  US peace proposals . Then Roosevelt said This
  means war.

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The Attack on Pearl Harbor

• December7,1941
• So early the next morning the Japanese attack
  Pearl Harbor the biggest naval base In the US.
  
  
• So Roosevelt declared war on Japan
• 3 days later Germany and Italy declared war on
  the US.
  

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Pearl Harbor
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The Holocaust
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The Holocaust

• Holocaust- the systematic murder of 11million
  people across Europe, more than half being Jews.
  
  

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Jews

• The Jews were blamed for the failures that
  Germany had. economic and defeat of WWl
  
• 1935 the Nuremberg laws stripped them from
  their citizenship, jobs and property.
  
• The Jews had to wear a bright yellow star of
  David on their neck , so they could be easily
  notice.
  
• November 9-10,1938 became known as
  Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass. This is
  when the Nazi troopers attacked Jewish homes,
  businesses across Germany. About 100 Jews were
  killed ans 100s of more were hurt, that day.
• 30,000 Jews were arrested and 100s of them were
  burned.
  
• And again the Jews were blamed for the
  destruction.
  

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Our Town is Burning
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Hitlers Final Solution

• The Final Solution was a policy of genocide-
  killing an entire population.
  
• Germany not only wanted all the Jews gone but
  others as well..
  
• Gypsies- the Nazis thought would an
  inferior race
  
• freemasons-Nazis thought were
  supporters of Jewish conspiracy to rule the
  world
  
• Jehovahs Witnesses-refused to
  join the army or salute Hitler.
  
• Homosexuals, sick people, act. anyone that
  didnt fight under the master race.

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Final solution
Bodies in the fire
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• This is the castle were they killed by gassing
  and lethal injections
  

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Concentration camps

• Jew that were caught by or pulled out of there
  homes by the Germans were sent to this camps.
  
• This camps weren't fun and exiting!!!! They were
  sent here to do work!! Most of the time they were
  separated from their families!!!!
  
• The life here was fare from beautiful
  glamorous. There was a cycle of huger,
  humiliation ,and such hard work that it mostly
  ended in death!!! Terrible!!!
• These camps weren't like pretty and designer
  decorated coleges!! These prisoners were crammed
  into crude wooden barracks t hat held up 1000
  people!!
• They shared everything with each other. Theyd
  work from dawn to dusk 7days a week.

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Newly arrived prisoners at the Buchenwald
concentration camp. Buchenwald, Germany,
1938-1940.
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• Prisoners at forced labor. Photo taken during an
  SS inspection. Dachau concentration camp,
  Germany, June 28, 1938.

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Deportation from the Westerbork transit camp. The
Netherlands, 1943-1944.
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The survivors

• About 6million Jews died in these camps
• People helped the Jews escape the camps. This
  people were appalled by the Nazis and how they
  treated the Jews.
  
• The people that did escape were forever changed.

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Weapons
Atomic Bomb
Machine guns
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MILITARY

• 5million volunteered for the service
• That was not enough for 2 global fronts- Europe
  and the Pacific
  
• The Selective Service System expanded the draft
  to 10million
  
• They trained for about 8 weeks

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End of war

• The US used a new weapon to end the war in the
  Pacific with the Japanese.
  
• The city was like dust in seconds of the bomb
  dropping
  
• 200,000people died of injuries from the blast.
• Germany was blamed again for the war. 24 Nazis
  leaders were put on trial for the crimes against
  humanity , peace and war.
  
• 12 out of 24 were put to death and the rest were
  sent to prison.
  

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Home front

• A lot of jobs for people
• People did have money/ spent it to
• Farmers had good weather
• Women had jobs but when the war was over many
  lost them
  
• Over 60million women entered the work force for
  the first time. Population was tripling
  
• During the war 1000s of African Americans left
  the South they got jobs
  
• Finally in 1990 president Bush gave 20,000 to
  every Japanese American sent to a relocation
  camp.
  

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Political cartoon depicts the murderous actions
of Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin.

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Germany
invades Poland
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Kristina Garza American History July-05-06