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W o r l d W a r I I
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Review

• What Ended WWI?
• When Did WWII Begin?
• Key Developments in U.S., GB, Fr.
• Russia, Germany, Italy, Japan
• Role of Great Depression
• What Had Been Done to Ensure
• World Peace?

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• League of Nations
• Strengths?
• Weaknesses?
• Treaties

• Five Power Treaty
• Nine Power Treaty
• Rapallo Pact
• Locarno Pact
• Kellogg-Briand Pact

• Problems?

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Remember... The Hopeful 20s Gave Way to
the Desperate 30s!
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Aggression and Appeasement
To What Extent Was WWII the Result of the
Interplay Between Aggression and Appeasement?
What Was the 1st Act of Aggression?
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Manchuria
In Asia
Russia
Japan
China
Indochina
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• WWIs Impact
• Showa Restoration
• Under Hirohito

• Depressions
• Impact?
• Where to Move?
• ChinaWhy?
• Civil War, Between
• Chiang Kai-shek
• Mao Zedong
• Where in China?

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The Manchurian Incident
Manchuria
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• Occupied It
• Renamed It

• Henry Puyi

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Who Was Watching?
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European Aggression
1935 Italy Invaded Ethiopia
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Who Was Watching?

• 1935 - Hitler Denounced Treaty
• 1936 Occupied Rhineland
• 1936 - Spanish Civil War
• 1936 - Rome-Berlin Axis

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1936 Rome-Berlin Axis Is Born
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A Pact is Made...
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Review

• Five Power Treaty
• Locarno Pact
• Kellogg-Briand Pact
• Showa Restoration
• Manchurian Incident
• Ethiopia
• Rhineland
• Rome-Berlin Axis

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C o n t i n u e d A g g r e s s i o n
After 1936
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What Had Hitler Promised in Mein Kampf?

• For the Aryan Master Race?
• Anti-Semitism
• Pan-Germanism
• Lebensraum
• How to Achieve His Goals?

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Increased Pressure
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T h e S p e c i f i c s
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The Anschluss

• Union of
• Germany
• and Austria
• Mar, 1938

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1938 Sudetenland Crisis

• Hitlers Demands?
• Europes Response?
• Munich Pact (Oct)

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Something Weird in the U.S.

• PM Chamberlain
• Peace in Our Time

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What Next?

• Neville Chamberlain Peace in
• Our Time
• Hitler Promised NO More!
• Did He Mean It?
• 1939 Took Rest of Czechoslovakia
• in March
• Apr Italy Invaded Albania
• Pact of Steel with Germany!
• ThenDemands of Poland

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• Danzig and
• The Polish
• Corridor
• Response?
• Poland Had a
• Pact with GB,
• Fr, USSR

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The Nonaggression Pact!

• Aug, 1939
• Why?
• Impact?

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S e p t - P o l a n d

• Border Incident
• Invasion!

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A Million Man Army Invaded!
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German Panzers
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What Were WWIIs Causes?

• Totalitarianism
• Militarism
• Nationalism
• Imperialism
• Failure of Collective Security
• Appeasement
• U.S. Neutrality Laws

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Review...

• How Did Hitler Intend to Achieve
• Pan-Germanism and Lebensraum?
• Anschluss?
• Sudetenland?
• Munich Pact?
• Demands from Poland?
• Danzig and the Polish Corridor
• World War IIs Causes?
• Define Aggression/Appeasement
• Your Task

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To What Extent Was WWII the Result of an
Interplay Between Aggression and Appeasement?
In a Well-Developed Essay, Answer the Question
Using Two Examples. Intro, 2 Body Pars,
Conclusion)
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War in Europe Early Years
How Did the Democracies Respond to Hitlers
Invasion?

• 1939 - Sitzkrieg
• 1940 - Blitzkrieg!
• 1940 - Dunkirk
• 1940 - Fall of France
• 1940 - Battle of Britain
• Operation Barbarossa
• Role of U.S.?

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Blitzkrieg!!!

• What?
• How?
• Impact?

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France
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Dunkirk Evacuation
Fall of France
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In Aug, Battle of Britain

• Role of the RAF
• Role of RADAR
• Role of Winston Churchill

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Battle of Britain Aftermath
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• 2-Mo. Blitz
• of London
• Impact?

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• Nov Called It Off!
• Turned Eastward

Balkan Campaign
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Europe Under Hitler

• The New Order
• Meaning?
• What to Do About Jews?
• Nuremberg Laws
• Kristallnacht
• Beyond?
• Final Solution

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Hitlers Mistakes
1. Dunkirk 2. Failed to Defeat GB 3. In 41,
Invaded the USSR
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4. War with USA Too Soon
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U.S. Readies for War

• Abandoned Neutrality
• FDR Third Term (1940)
• Four Freedoms Speech (41)
• Lend-Lease Program (41)
• Atlantic Charter (41)

• Waiting Game
• Quasi War
• War Came, But

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U.S. Entry into WWII

• Background
• Hideki Tojo

• Isoroku Yamamoto

• Planned Pearl
• Harbor
• Dec 7, 1941

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• 2 Hour Attack
• Impact?

Pearl Harbor
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On That Same Day!
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What Did Nations Have to Do... Again?
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Mobilization Again...

• For Whom?
• How?
• Political?
• Economic
• Social?

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Wartime Propaganda
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Everyone Must Be Mobilized
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Fighting WWII
1942 - 1945
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Theaters of Action
Russia
Japan
England
China
France
Hawaii
North Africa
Australia
Europe
Pacific
Expect a Map on the Test
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• Forging the Grand
• Alliance
• Washington Conf.
• of 1942
• Many Wartime
• Conferences
• Planned Strategy
• Where to Begin?
• What Made WWII
• More Deadly than
• World War I?

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World War II Was a Mobile War
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P-47
P-51
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Air Warfare
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Germanys Bismarck
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Battleship Texas
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German U-Boats
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American Sub
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A Cool American Sub!
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The Allies Secret Weapon
Enigma
Ultra
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The European Theater

• Game Plan?
• North Africa Campaign
• Stalingrad
• Battle of the Atlantic
• Air War over Germany
• Operation Husky
• Operation Overlord

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• North African Campaign
• Why So Important?

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Rommel
Montgomery
North Africa
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El Alamein
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• Operation
• Husky
• Tehran
• Conference
• Planned the
• Next Op

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Battle of the Atlantic

• Convoys
• New Technology
• By, Summer Won

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Air War over Germany

• Why?
• How?
• Who?
• When?

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Operation Overlord
June 6, 1944 AKA
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D D a y
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• After the Normandy Landing
• Liberation of Paris and France
• Battle of the Bulge

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Yalta Conference

• Meeting to Determine Post-War Issues
• What to do about Germany?
• How to Keep USSR
• in the War?
• International
• Peace Organization?
• Invasion of Germany

Big Three
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Bridge at Ramagen (Mar)
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Events of the Spring, 1945

• Mar 6 - Took Bridge at Remagen
• Apr 16 - FDR Died
• Apr 25 - US and USSR Meet
• The End Is Near

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V-1 Rocket
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V-2 R o c k e t
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• Mussolini Killed
• Hitler Suicide
• V-E Day
• Victory, but...

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The Holocaust
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Inside a Camp
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Crematorium
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There're These Guys!
War in the Pacific
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Turning the Tide in the Pacific

• Coral Sea
• Midway
• Guadalcanal
• Island Hopping
• Climbing the Ladder to Tokyo
• Leyte Gulf (Philippines)
• Iwo Jima and Okinawa

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C o r a l S e a
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Midway
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• Impact?
• New Strategy
• Island Hopping

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Island Fighting
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Guadalcanal
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Iwo Jima
Okinawa
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Mt. Suribachi Flag Raising (Iwo Jima)
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The Potsdam Conference

• A New Big Three
• What to Do about Japan?
• The Manhattan Project
• Potsdam Ultimatum
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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F a t m a n
L i t t l e B o y
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V-J Day
Sept 2, 1945
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Aboard the U.S.S. Missouri
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World War IIs Impact
Political
Economic
Social
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World Wars Losses
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What Would Be the Nature of the Post-War
World This Time?
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Stay Tuned...
For The Postwar World
It Is a . . .