WWII

1
WWII

• Chapters 35-36

2
Benito Mussolini

• Italy
• Fascism
• State more important than people
• Strong govt. with dictator
• Individual has no rights

3
Josef Stalin

• Soviet Union
• Communist nation (1917)

4
Adolf Hitler

• Germany
• Used fascism w/racism
• Blonde, blue-eyed were superior
• National Socialist German Workers Party
• Swastika
• Goals
• Rebuild Germany
• Tear up Treaty of Versailles
• Conquer Europe
• Destroy Jews

5
(No Transcript)
6
Jewish Treatment

• No rights
• Harassed and mistreated
• Isolated and enslaved
• Eliminated

7
Kristallnacht

• Nov. 9-10, 1938
• 1,000 Jews murdered
• 26,000 Jews sent to camps
• Night of Broken
• Glass

8
Road to War

• Democracy threatened
• Aggression/tension ?
• Dictatorships increasing
• Difficulty remaining isolated
• U.S. isolation

9
Neutrality Acts (1935-37)

• No sale of munitions to warring nations
• Unlawful for Ams. to travel on warring countries
  ships
• Authorize President to list commodities to be
  sold (Cash-and-Carry only)

10
German Advancement

• 1938 Austria
• Munich Pact (9/38)
• Czechs give Sudetenland to Germany
• March 1939 Czechoslovakia
• Sept. 1, 1939 Poland
• April-June 1940 Denmark, Norway, Netherlands,
  Belgium, Lux., France

11
Selective Service Act

• Sept 1940
• First peacetime draft
• All men ages 21-35
• 1 year active service

12
1940 Election
Candidates Party Affiliation Popular Vote Electoral Vote
FDR Democrat 27,307,819 449
Willkie Republican 22,321,018 82
13
Lend-Lease Act (March 1941)

• 7 billion to GB/Allies (by end of war 50
  billion)
• Sell or lease commodities to any country whose
  defense was vital to U.S. defense

14
U.S./Japan Relations

• 7/41 Embargo on oil, tools, iron steel
• Froze Japanese assets in U.S.
• 11/41 Peace mission to U.S.
• 3 demands
• 1. Unfreeze assets
• 2. Lift embargo
• 3. Cease aid to China

15
Pearl Harbor

• Naval, Air Force base
• Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941
• 755 am 850 am
• Am. losses
• Almost all planes
• 8 battleships
• 2,300 killed, 2,000 wounded
• Dec. 8, 1941 U.S. declares war on Japan

16
Internment Camps

• 110,000 Japanese-Americans placed in camps
• 1988 20,000 to all survivors

17
OPA

• Office of Price Administration
• Fought inflation by freezing wages, prices, and
  rents
• Rationed foods, such as meat, butter, cheese,
  vegetables, sugar and coffee

18
NWLB

• National War Labor Board
• Limited wage increases
• Kept unions stable, forbid workers from changing
  unions
• Paid vacations, pensions, and medical insurance

19
WPB

• War Production Board
• Rationed fuel and materials vital to the war
  effort, such as gas, heating oil, metals, rubber,
  and plastics

20
Manhattan Project

• Scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Tested July 16, 1945 (Alamogordo, NM)
• Atomic bomb

21
D-Day (June 6, 1944)

• Operation Overlord
• 176,000 Ams.
• 4,000 landing craft
• 600 warships
• 11,000 planes
• Allies victory

22
1944 Election
Candidate Party Affiliation Popular Vote Electoral Vote
FDR/Truman Democrat 25,606,585 432
Dewey/Bricker 22,014,745 99
23
April 12, 1945

• FDR dead

http//www.delanoye.org/FDR/
24
April 30, 1945

• Hitler commits suicide

25
May 8, 1945

• V-E Day

http//www.history.com/media.do?idtdih_may08_broa
dbandactionclip
26
Hiroshima

• August 6, 1945
• Enola Gay
• Pilot Paul Tibbets
• Bomb Little Boy
• 140,000 dead by end of year

27
Nagasaki

• August 9, 1945
• Bomb Fat Man
• 70,000 dead by end of year

28
V-J Day

• August 15, 1945
• USS Missouri