WORLD

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WORLD WAR II
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Economic and political trouble in Europe lead to
FASCISM
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FACIST LEADERS
Axis Powers
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FASCIST governments

• Lead by dictator
• Ruled with violence and fear
• Extreme nationalism
• Had a strong military
• Had total control over government

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Adolf Hitler-Germany
Adolf Hitler
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Benito Mussolini- Italy
Benito Mussolini
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Hideki Tojo-Japan
Tojo
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Allied Powers
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Winston Churchill- Great Britain
Winston Churchill
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Joseph Stalin-U.S.S.R.
Joseph Stalin
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Churchill, FDR (U.S), Stalin
Yalta
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The Holocaust

• a planned attempt to rid the world of Jewish
  people

Kristallnacht

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Anti-Semitism

• a feeling of hatred towards the Jews

Kristallnacht
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Germany saw Jews

• Germany saw Jews as being unfit for society.
• They were a problem that had to be solved

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pogroms

• killing of Jews in certain towns as a way to
  embarrass, torture and punish the Jews

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Kristallnacht

• The Night of Broken Glass
• Nazi soldiers destroyed the stores and synagogues
  of the Jewish people

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Concentration camps like Auschwitz and Buchenwald

• 6 million Jews were killed
• 1 ½ million Jewish children were killed
• Millions of blacks, gypsies, homosexuals and
  people with physical and metal handicaps were
  killed

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Germany Begins WWII

• Invades Poland
• Invades France
• Attacks London in the Battle of Britain

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U.S. stays out of the war ISOLATIONISMU.S is
not involved
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor
"A day that will live in infamy"
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U.S. declares war against Japan
Dec. 7, 1941
Dec. 7, 1941
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Internment campsJapanese-Americans either
served in the army or
were sent to live in
camps that
were only for
the
Japanese-
U.S. was
afraid of
Japanese spies
Japanese Internment Camps
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Turning Point in Pacific

• US beats Japan in
• Battle of Midway

Midway
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U.S.S.R beats Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad

• Germany becomes weaker and weaker

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Turning Point in Western EuropeD-DayAllied
forces land to take back Normandy, France
D-Day
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Women Go to Work with Rosie the Riveter
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Women took jobs in the war factories
WWII women
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Harry Truman becomes U.S. president after FDR
dies

• Truman gives the order to drop the two atomic
  bombs on Japan

August 6 1945 - Hiroshima August 9, 1945 -
Nagasaki
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Atomic Bomb Destruction
atomic bomb destruction
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Japan surrenders ending WWII
Japan surrenders
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After the WarMarshall Plan

• Provided money to help rebuild Europe
• Attempted to prevent the spread of communism

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Germany gets split

• East piece is run by U.S.S.R. and is communist
• Western piece is democratic

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Japan U.S. become allies

• Democratic government is set up
• U.S. and Japan are friends

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United Nations is Created

• Organization where countries can talk about
  problems and try to avoid war

United Nations