World War II

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Chapter 24

• World War II

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Pre-WWII

• WWI and Russian Revolution
• Many died
• Established hard feelings
• Scared of future war
• Great Depression
• Economic hardship opens opportunities

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Rise of Dictators Soviet Union

• Josef Stalin
• Rose through Russian Rev.
• Dictator by 1929
• Created a totalitarian state
• Took over industry and agriculture
• Killed rivals (Machiavellian Principle)

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Rise of Dictators Italy

• Italy is faced with economic and social problems
• Benito Mussolini promised prosperity and order
• Threatened to overthrow govt
• Appointed prime minister
• Creates a fascist state
• Preached racial superiority

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Rise of Dictators Italy (cont)

• Mussolini
• Spoke of reviving the Roman Empire
• Superiority has an obligation to conquer.
• No Freedom of the Press
• Banned political parties
• Killed rivals (Machiavellian Principle)
• Schools Mussolini is always right.

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Rise of Dictators Germany

• Angry over defeat in WWI
• Heavy reparations econ. Hardship
• 1921 Hitler is head of National Socialist Party
• Key beliefs racial superiority
• Hitler
• Jews are to blame for WWI loss
• Scapegoat of history

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Rise of Dictators Germany (cont.)

• 1933 Hitler made Chancellor
• Creates totalitarian state based on fascism
• Use of secret police
• Jews banned from pub. Schools, medicine, and law

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Rise of Dictators Japan

• Heavily impacted by Great Depression
• Military state
• Need for resources
• Racial Superiority!!!!

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Military Aggression

• Japan attacks China (1931)
• Army acts w/o permission
• League of Nations protests but does nothing
• Killed 250K
• Italy Invades Ethiopia (1935)
• League of Nations does nothing

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German Aggression

• Goal Reunite all German-speaking people
• Why?
• Rebuilding of military against Treaty of
  Versailles
• Sent troops into the Rhineland, then took over
  Austria

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German Aggression (cont.)

• Hitler threatens to invade Czechoslovakia
• Fran. and Brit. Protest
• Meeting in Munich
• Munich Pact Hitler allowed to take over
  Sudetenland for not seeking any other land
• Couple months later, Hitler took over the rest of
  Czechoslovakia

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The United States goes to WAR!!!
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American Neutrality

• Neutrality Act 1935
• Forbids the president from selling arms, making
  loans, or giving any form of assistance to any
  nation involved in a war
• Good Neighbor Policy
• FDR believed this would strengthen ties in Latin
  America
• Frees Cuba
• Pulls American direct influence out of Latin
  America

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Congressional Sympathies

• Lend-Lease Act
• Favored by most Americans WHY?
• Better than Supplies for Cash
• Help anyone fighting Nazis
• Military Buildup
• Cong. Approves more Mil. Spending
• Peacetime draft
• Af. Am. Mil. Units

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Atlantic Charter

• Roosevelt and Churchill
• Neither nation would seek territorial gain
• All people will have right to choose own
  government
• New international organization

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The Domestic War

• Building the Military
• Draft
• 15 million volunteers and draftees
• Women
• Nurses, pilots, secretaries

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Domestic Actions

• Economy
• War Production Board
• Output is doubled
• Required Support
• Food, clothing, and equipment donated
• Victory gardens
• War bonds
• Rationing limits on scarce goods
• Use of coupons
• Coffee, sugar, meat, shoes, gasoline, tires

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Women in Industry

• What types of Jobs would be open?
• Furnace tenders, welders, crane operators, ect.
• Women gain confidence
• How does this affect their future?
• Rosie the Riveter What makes her so important?

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Japanese Americans

• Intern-temporarily imprison
• Exec. Order 9066 Any proof?
• 110K Japanese placed in camps
• take what you can
• Some were given upon release
• Formal apology in 1990

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Japanese American Loyalty

• 442nd Nisei Regimental Combat Team
• Most decorated unit in United States history
• In less than two years of combat, the 442nd
  Regimental Combat team earned more than 18,000
  individual decorations including one Medal of
  Honor, 53 distinguished Service Crosses, 588
  Silver Stars, 5,200 Bronze Star Medals, 9,486
  Purple Hearts and 8 Presidential Unit Citations.

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Others in Crisis

• German and Italian Americans were also placed
  into internment camps
• Curfews
• Travel restrictions

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African Americans

• Injustice in Industry and Military
• A Philip Randolph head of Brotherhood of
  Sleeping Car Porters
• Threatened mass protest unless Roosevelt did
  something
• Fair Employment Practices Committee

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Mexican Americans

• Braceros - Mexican laborers
• Mexican/American agreement

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Events leading to War

• Japan invades Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam
• Roosevelt bans metal trade and oil trade with
  Japan
• So..

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Pearl Harbor
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Day of Infamy
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War in Europe

• Sept. 1, 1939 Hitler invades Poland
• Nazi-Soviet Pact
• Poland split between the two
• Surprises the World WHY?
• Stalin invades Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, and
  Latvia
• France and Britain declare war on Germany
• April 1940 Denmark and Norway fall to Germany

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War cont.

• Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium fall in May
• 6 weeks later, France surrenders
• Battle of Britain
• Bombing raids by Germany
• Germany tries to invade Britain
• June 22, 1941 Hitler invades Soviet Union
• BIG MISTAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The War (Eur. Theatre)

• 9 countries (Axis Powers) vs. 50 countries
  (Allied Powers)
• Eastern Front
• Soviet Winter
• Stalingrad is held
• Ends with Soviet victory in Stalingrad

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The War (Eur. Theatre)

• Southern Front
• Rommel swept across Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt
• Eventually stopped and caused to retreat by the
  British
• Gen. Eisenhower occupies Morocco and Algeria

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Conclusion of the War in Europe

• Italy Surrenders
• D-Day (June 6, 1944)
• Invasion of Normandy
• 155K troops
• August 1944 Paris is liberated

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Battle of the Bulge

• German counterattack in Belgium
• Germany is short of supplies and troops
• Reasons?

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Invasion of Germany

• January 1945 Soviets enter Germany
• April 12, 1945 FDR dies from a stroke
• Harry S Truman becomes President
• April 16 Soviets begin attacking Berlin
• April 30 Hitler commits suicide
• May 8 V-E Day!!!!

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The War (Pac. Theatre)

• Japan takes over Philippines and forces MacArthur
  to retreat
• MacArthur is given command of entire Pacific
  forces
• Bataan Death March
• 70K American and Pilipino
• 65 mile march

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The War (Pac. Theatre)

• The Turning Points of the War
• Battle of Coral Sea
• US keeps Japan from New Guinea
• New style of naval warfare
• Battle of Midway
• Americans destroy 4 carriers, 322 aircraft

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Pacific Theatre

• Battle of Midway
• Last Japanese offensive
• Island hopping Am. Forces capture one
  Japanese-controlled island at a time
• Navaho are key to success
• Casualties
• 14k in Philippines
• 6k in Iwo Jima
• 12k in Okinawa

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Issues

• Japanese willingness to die
• Kamikaze - suicide pilots
• A-Bomb tested in N. Mexico
• Truman advised that invasion may cost ½ million
  lives

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Results

• August 6, 1945
• Hiroshima
• Killed 130k instantly
• August 9, 1945
• Nagasaki
• Killed 35K instantly
• August 14, 1945
• V-J Day
• Formal surrender September 2, 1945 on USS Missouri

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Holocaust

• Hitler the final solution to the Jewish
  problem
• Genocide the deliberate attempt to wipe out an
  entire nation or group of people
• Other groups Poles, Slavs, Gypsies, Communists,
  and people with physical and mental disabilities
• Death Camps Gas Chambers, torture, medical
  experiments