WWII

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WWII
1939-1945
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• Post WWI Issues
• Unemployment
• Reconstruction
• National Debts
• Social Unrest
• Leadership

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CAUSES OF WWII

• 1. Totalitarianism- Government rule by one man
• USSR - Stalin
• Italy - Mussolini
• Germany - Hitler
• Japan - Tojo

Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Hideki Tojo
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Totalitarian Themes

• Single-Party Dictatorship
• State Control of the Economy
• Use of Terror (Secret Police)
• Censorship
• Indoctrination (Propaganda)
• Strict Obedience to a Single Leader

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Obey!
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MUSSOLINI-ITALY

• FOUNDED THE FASCIST PARTY (NATION WAS MORE
  IMPORTANT THAN THE INDIVIDUAL)
• ANTICOMMUNIST
• TOOK THE TITLE IL DUCE (THE LEADER)
• BACKED BY THE BLACKSHIRTS (FASCIST MILITIA)

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HITLER-GERMANY

• ANTICOMMUNIST/ADMIRED MUSSOLINI
• ONE OF THE FIRST RECRUITS OF THE NAZI PARTY
• WROTE MEIN KAMPF IN PRISON WHERE HE OUTLINED HIS
  MASTER RACE
• APPOINTED PRIME MINISTER BY GERMAN
  PRESIDENTLATER GAVE HIMSELF THE TITLE FUHRER
  (LEADER)

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TOJO-JAPAN

• JAPANESE MILITARY BLAMED DEPRESSION ON CORRUPT
  POLITICIANS
• MILITARY SEIZED CONTROL
• SUPPORTED A TOTALITARIAN STATE

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MAO ZEDONG- CHINA

• MARXIST
• USHERED IN COMMUNIST CONTROL OF CHINA FOLLOWING
  JAPANESE SURRENDER

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FRANCO-SPAIN

• FASCIST WHO TOOK CONTROL OF THE DEMOCRATIC
  GOVERMENT
• SUPPORTED A NATIONALIST POLICY

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CHURCHILL- GREAT BRITAIN

• PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN FOLLOWING
  CHAMBERLAIN
• HAD A STRONG FRIENDSHIP WITH F.D.R.

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STALIN- U.S.S.R.

• JOSPEH STALIN COMMUNIST DICTATOR
• BECAME LEADER OF USSR FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF
  LENIN
• GOVERNMENT AIMED TO CONTROL EVERY ASPECT OF DAILY
  LIFE

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ROOSEVELT- U.S.

• U.S. PRESIDENT DURING MUCH OF WWII
• DIED BEFORE THE WAR ENDED
• ONLY PRESIDENT TO SERVE MORE THAN TWO TERMS

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MACARTHUR PATTON- U.S.

• GENERALS WHO LED THE U.S. BATTLES IN EUROPE THE
  PACIFIC

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TRUMAN- U.S.

• BECAME PRESIDENT AFTER THE DEATH OF FDR IN 1945
• MADE THE DECISION TO DROP THE ATOMIC BOMB

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CAUSES OF WWII
2. Militarism- showed strength created jobs
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CAUSES OF WWII
3. Nationalism- Germany believed in the master
race and Italy want to recapture the glory of
ancient Rome
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CAUSES OF WWII

• 4. Imperialism-expanding countries borders
• Failure of the League of Nations- U.S. feared the
  alliance systems, USSR was not asked to join,
  Italy and Germany ignored decisions made by the
  League
• Worldwide Depression- linked to the U.S.
  depression-countries looked to dictators for an
  end to the hard times

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BUILD UP TO WAR

• 1936-HITLER OCCUPIES THE RHINELAND
• FEB 1938 -HILTER ANNEXES AUSTRIA
• SEP 1938 -HITLER SEEKS THE SUDETENLAND (CZECH)
• EUROPES LEADERS AGREE (APPEASE) TO GIVE IN TO
  HITLER
• GERMANY SIGNS NON-AGGRESSION PACT WITH RUSSIA
  (SECRET PLANS TO DIVIDE UP POLAND)

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WAR BEGINS

• GERMANY INVADES POLAND ON
• SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 WITH BLITZKRIEG TACTICS
• ON SEPTEMBER 3, 1939 BRITAIN AND FRANCE DECLARE
  WAR ON GERMANY

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Nazi Blitzkrieg April - May 1940
Belgium
Defeated and forced to acknowledge the Nazi
government.
Hitler conquers Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and the
Netherlands
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FALL OF FRANCE

• AFTER WWI-FRANCE BUILT A LINE OF CONCRETE BUNKERS
  CALLED THE MAGINOT LINE
• HITLER OUTFLANKED LINE BY INVADING BELGIUM,
  NEHTERLANDS, LUXEMBOURG

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MAGINOT LINE
MAGINOT LINE
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MIRACLE AT DUNKIRK

• HITLERS 3-DAY DELAY ENABLED THE FRENCH/ENGLISH
  TO EVACUATE 338,000 TROOPS FROM THE PORT AT
  DUNKIRK (May - June 1940)
• BRITAIN LEFT BEHIND NEARLY ALL OF THEIR
  EQUIPMENT-(90,000 RIFLES, 120,000 VEHICLES, 7
  TONS OF AMMO)
• FRANCE SURRENDERED 3 WEEKS LATER

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BATTLE OF BRITAIN

• JUNE 1940 -FULL AIR ATTACK ON ENGLAND TO DESTROY
  THE ROYAL AIR FORCE (RAF) BY THE LUFTWAFFE
  (GERMAN AIRFORCE)
• DEVELOPMENT OF THE RADAR SAVED ENGLAND FROM
  INVASION (OUTNUMBERED 8-1)
• OCT 1940 -GERMANY CANCELLED INVASION

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Germany Invades

• Rhineland (France)
• Austria
• Sudetenland (Czech)
• Poland (September 1, 1939)
• France (Maginot line-outflanked)
• Miracle at Dunkirk (Evacuation)
• Battle of Britain (Luftwaffe vs.
  R.A.F-outnumbered 8-1)

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Lend-Lease Act

• FDR found a way around the Neutrality Act of 1939
• U.S. would send aid to any country considered
  vital to the defense of the U.S. as long as
  they agreed to repay the U.S. after the war
• FDR elected to 3rd term in 1940

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PROJECT!
WHERE FRIENDS AND ENEMIES UNITE