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WWII and The Cold War

• Chapter 21
• Sections 2 5

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World War II Begins

• Section 2

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Guided Reading 21-2

• The Treaty of Versailles was supposed to keep
  Germany from building up its military, Hitler
  ignored it
• A. French and British leaders chose a policy of
  appeasement
• B. Hitler Mussolini became close allies
• 1. Italy invaded Ethiopia
• 2. Hitler Mussolini supported Franco
• 3. 1938 Hitler claims Austria
• 4. Hitler promised to stop expanding if he was
  given the Sudetenland
• 5. Breaking peace, Hitler wanted Danzig in
  Poland

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21-2 Part II

• II. In response to Hitlers continued invasions,
  France and Britain declared war on Germany
• A. Germany attacked Denmark, Norway, the
  Netherlands and Belgium, then France
• 1. France surrendered in 1940
• 2. That same year Italy joined in support of
  Germany
• B. Hitlers attempt to destroy Britain was
  stopped by Radar
• C. Stalin stopped the Germans in the USSR with
  his scorched-earth policy

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Nazi Soviet Pact of 1939
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Blitzing the British
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Scorching the Earth
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December 7th 1941

• D. President Roosevelt tried to use economic
  pressure to stop Japan from continuing its
  attacks on China and on British and French
  colonies
• 1. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in retaliation
• 2. Congress declared war on Japan, and three
  days later, Germany and Italy declared was on the
  US.

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Pearl Harbor
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THE ALLIES WIN THE WAR

• Section 3

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Guided Reading 21-3

1. WWII was fought on the European and Pacific
   fronts.
2. The US used the island hopping plan to defeat
   the Japanese
3. The US and British joined forced in Northern
   Africa to defeat the Germans
4. US general Eisenhower and Patton British
   general Bernard Montgomery
5. The Nazi plan for genocide came to known as the
   Holocaust

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The Generals
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21-3 Part II

• 6. D-Day on June 6th 1944 marked the advance of
  the Allies into Germany
• 7. President Harry Truman made the decision to
  use the atomic bomb
• 8. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the two Japanese
  cities bombed
• 9. The Soviets had 20 million more deaths than
  the Japanese
• 10. The UN Security Council would investigate
  international problems and propose settlements

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11 Miles High!
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THE COLD WAR

• Section 4

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Guided Reading 21-4

• After WWII the United States and the Soviet
  Union began to compete for world leadership.
  Americans wanted to spread democracy and free
  enterprise. The Soviets wanted to spread
  communism. The rivalry was known as the Cold War.
• Breaking his post-war promise, the Soviet
  leader Joseph Stalin, refused to hold free
  elections. The US became concerned that the
  Soviets wanted to spread communism and developed
  a foreign policy known as containment.

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21-4 Continued

• The US, Canada, 10 Western European countries
  formed an alliance known as NATO. In response,
  the Soviets other communist governments of
  Eastern Europe created their own military
  alliance by signing the Warsaw Pact.
• In 1962 President Kennedy ordered a blockade
  threatened a counterattack if the Soviets did not
  remove their missiles from Cuba. Soviet leaders
  agreed to withdraw to avoid nuclear war.

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21-4 Part III

• Chinas communist leader Mao Zedong, joined the
  North Korean forces in their attempt to establish
  a communist government against the US supported
  South Koreans. During the Korean War Japans
  economy boomed.
• In Europe, the Marshall Plan was seen as the
  first step in building a united Europe with a
  stronger economy. Americas increased postwar
  birthrate became known as the baby boom. The US
  saw an end to racial segregation.

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A Baby Boom!
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The End of an Empire

• Independence Movements
• Section 5

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Guided Reading 21-5

• In order to gain control of their government
  nationalists in India wanted a revolution
• False. Reform.
• 2. Mohandas Gandhi used violent disobedience to
  protest British rule.
• False. Civil disobedience.
• 3. After WWII, Britain granted independence to
  India and Pakistan.
• True.August 1947.

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21-5 II

• 4. Mohandas Gandhis daughter, Indira Gandhi,
  became prime minister of India in 1966.
• True. She was assassinated in 1984.
• 5. The country of Indonesia used to be known as
  the Dutch East Indies
• True. Achmed Sukarno declared independence.
• 6. Ho Chi Minh fought the Japanese, French,
  Americans and South Vietnamese for control of
  Vietnam.
• True. WWII 1975.
• 7. US President sent American troops to fight the
  Vietcong.
• False. Aid and military advisers.

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Vietnam
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21-5 III

• 8. Many South Vietnamese refugees were called
  boat people
• True. 20 years later some still lived in camps.
• 9. The OAU was founded out of a desire to unite
  all Black Africans.
• True. Organization of African Unity.
• 10. The arrest of Nelson Mandela ended the black
  South Africans protests against apartheid.
• False. But apartheid lasted 30 more years.
  Mandela led the AFC African National Congress

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