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Title: WWII


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WWII
1939-1945
2
  • Post WWI Issues
  • Unemployment
  • Reconstruction
  • National Debts
  • Social Unrest
  • Leadership

3
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

10
FRANCO-SPAIN
  • FASCIST WHO TOOK CONTROL OF THE DEMOCRATIC
    GOVERMENT
  • SUPPORTED A NATIONALIST POLICY

11
CHURCHILL- GREAT BRITAIN
  • PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN FOLLOWING
    CHAMBERLAIN
  • HAD A STRONG FRIENDSHIP WITH F.D.R.

12
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

14
MACARTHUR PATTON- U.S.
  • GENERALS WHO LED THE U.S. BATTLES IN EUROPE THE
    PACIFIC

15
TRUMAN- U.S.
  • BECAME PRESIDENT AFTER THE DEATH OF FDR IN 1945
  • MADE THE DECISION TO DROP THE ATOMIC BOMB

16
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
18
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)

20
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
24
FALL OF FRANCE
  • AFTER WWI-FRANCE BUILT A LINE OF CONCRETE BUNKERS
    CALLED THE MAGINOT LINE
  • HITLER OUTFLANKED LINE BY INVADING BELGIUM,
    NEHTERLANDS, LUXEMBOURG

25
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

27
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
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