World War II

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World War II

• Day 1

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Isolation and neutrality

• Causes of disillusion and pacifism
• Neutrality Acts of 1935-37
• Spanish Civil War
• Quarantine

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Causes of disillusion and pacifism

• WWI outcomes
• Evidence of large profits by banks and war
  industry
• Hatred of militarism

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Neutrality Acts of 1935-37

• Effort of US Congress to keep the US out of
  future wars
• No American trading with belligerent nations!

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Spanish Civil War

• Nazis testing war technology and ideology
• Nazi Germany builds defense industry helps
  economically
• Sells to Spain in Civil war

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• Helps fascist Franco remain in power by providing
  arms and actual military involvement
• Germany violates Treaty of Versailles
• The West watches does nothing!

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What is a fascist?

• A government that glorifies war
• Preaches an extreme form of nationalism
• People and government follow the commands of an
  all-powerful dictator

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Who were the fascist leaders of the 1930s
1940s?

• Argentina Peron
• Germany Hitler
• Italy Mussolini
• Japan Militaristic Oligarchy
• Spain - Franco

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FDRs quarantine speech (1937)

• An idealist, Roosevelt was trying to suggest an
  alternative to war in Europe and Asia by way of a
  US "quarantine" around aggressors like Mussolini
  who had invaded Ethiopia and Japan that was
  involved with China at that time. He was seeking
  an alternative to war. US isolationists responded
  that he was trying to make the US the world's
  policeman. He was forced to back down for the
  moment. On 12 December 1937 the USS Panay (PR-5)
  was attacked by the Japanese while on patrol
  killing two officers and 30 enlisted. War was
  busting out no matter how much effort was being
  applied on the diplomatic front to keep the
  "epidemic of aggression in check.

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Failure of peace triumph of aggression

• Japan invades Mongolia China
• Germany Austria, Rhineland, Sudetenland
• Italy - Ethiopia

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German-Russian Non-Aggression Pact
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Appeasement The Munich Conference (1938)
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German attack on Poland

• Blitzkreig Lightening War
• start of World War II in Europe
• Alliances kick in just like WWI

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Pearl Harbor

• US denies sales of oil and scrap metal to Japan
  as a consequence of atrocities in China.
• Japan goes after new oil supply in
  Indonesia/Malaysia
• Eliminates American power in pacific

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Ha!

• You sank the pacific fleet, except the Aircraft
  Carriers were uncharacteristically out on
  maneuvers that weekend!
• US declares War!

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World War II

• Day 3

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Holocaust

• Germany's systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing)
  of various ethnic, religious, national, and
  secular groups during World War II,
• Hitlers 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question

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World War II begins

• September 1,1939
• Germany attacked Poland without a formal
  declaration of war.
• France and Britain drawn into the war.

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America enters WWII

• Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
• US declares war on Japan
• WWII begins for USA
• Japan captures US colony (Philippines)

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Operation Barbarossa

• Hitler attacks Russia and violates the secret
  Non-aggression Pact
• Hitler gains 500 miles inside Russia before
  Russia is aware of the attack.
• Now that is fast!
• Russia pleads for help from the Western Allies
• Battle of Leningrad Longest siege of a city in
  world History
• 900 days
• 600,000 dead

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Operation Barbarossa
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Battle of Stalingrad, Russia

• Hitler wants the city named after Stalin!
• Its personal! (No military value)
• the bloodiest battle in human history
• (1-2 million dead)
• Stalin aint lettn go!
• Its personal!
• the Soviet counter-offensive wins
• German (6th Army) trapped destroyed
• Turning point of WWII

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Europe First strategy

• US joins Britain and France
• Europe first because
• Germany will fight if Japan is defeated. The
  reverse is not clear.
• Russia needs help or it will surrender
• Britain will be conquered without immediate aid
  from the USA

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Operation Torch
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Operation Torch

• US attacks Germany at North Africa
• General Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Supreme Allied Commander

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Operation Avalanche
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Operation Avalanche

• After invasion of North Africa
• US invades Europe through Italy
• US defeats Italy.
• Mussolini overthrown by Italian people

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Operation Overlord
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The D-Day Invasion

• Operation Overlord
• Invasion of Northern Europe through France
• American Beaches face fierce resistance
• Utah Beach Normandy France

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The D-Day Invasion

• Largest amphibious invasion in world history
• Allies get a foothold in France and drive toward
  Berlin
• The beginning of the end for Hitler.

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WWII on the Home Front