WORLD WAR II

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WORLD WAR II
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Definitions

• Alliance union or association of nations that
  is set up to further the common interests of its
  members
• Appeasement policy of giving in to the demands
  of a hostile power to avoid conflict and maintain
  peace
• Democracy governments power and authority rest
  with the people. People express their power
  through voting
• Fascism political philosophy that calls for the
  glorification of the nation above the individual
  includes the use of force against opposition
• Propaganda media that supports the spread of
  ideas for the purpose of helping or damaging a
  cause
• Totalitarianism government that has total
  control of society. Power rest in the hands of a
  few people

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Germany Faces Economic Collapse

• A Troubled Germany
• Treaty of Versailles
• Economic unrest
• Political Instability
• Weimar Republic
• US Response
• Isolationism
• War Debt Repayment
• Dawes Plan

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Rise of Adolf Hitler

• Hitlers Early Years
• Hitler and the Nazi Party
• Beer Hall Putsch
• Mein Kampf
• Aryan Race -
• Hitler Becomes Dictator
• Anti-Semitic Policies
• Nuremburg Laws 1935
• Kristallnacht Night of the Broken Glass
• Hitlers Policies
• US Response
• Focus on domestic concerns
• Security through disarmament

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Hitler Describes the Jews

• 'The struggle between the people and the hatred
  amongst them is being nurtured by very specific
  interested parties. It is a small, rootless,
  international clique that is turning the people
  against each other, that does not want them to
  have peace ... It is the people who are at home
  both nowhere and everywhere, who do not have
  anywhere a soil on which they have grown up, but
  who live in Berlin today, in Brussels tomorrow,
  Paris the day after that, and then again in
  Prague or Vienna or London, and who feel at home
  everywhere. Man in audience shouts 'The Jews!'
  They are the only ones who can be addressed as
  international, because they conduct their
  business everywhere, but the people cannot follow
  them.'

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Fascism in Italy

• Turmoil
• Same as rest of the world
• Cheated by the Treaty of Versailles
• Depression
• Mussolini and Fascism
• Why would Fascism appeal to anyone?
• Order and control during chaos
• Promise to revive the Roman Empire
• Private Property
• Rise to Power
• Italian Imperialism
• US Response
• Neutrality Acts
• Moral Embargo

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Spanish Civil War

• Spanish Civil War
• Francisco Franco and the Nationalist Party
• Hitler and Muss helped out
• Rome-Berlin Axis
• Military Alliance
• US Response
• Neutrality is tested

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Rise of Militarism in Japan

• Militarism in Japan
• Depression and second rate reputation led to
  Military Leaders gaining power
• Japanese Imperialism
• Attacked Manchuria 1931
• Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
• Shanghai 1937
• US Response
• Words w/o Deeds
• Quarantine Speech

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The Rape of Nanking
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Violation and Appeasement

• Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles
• Reoccupies the Rhineland on the French Border
• The Sudetenland
• 3 million Germans lived in the West Border of
  Czechoslovakia
• The Munich Agreement
• Appeasement of Hitler
• US Response
• Negotiation and appeasement

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Invasion of Czechoslovakia

• Hitler Invades
• Goes against Munich promise
• Made demands of Poland
• Wanted Danzig and Polish Corridor
• Nazi Soviet Pact
• Non-aggression pact of Hitler and Stalin
• Secret plan to divide Poland
• Plan to Invade Poland
• US Response
• Pressing for Peace
• Planning for War

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World War II Begins

• Invasion of Poland September 1, 1939
• Blitzkrieg
• US RESPONSE
• Neutrality Questioned
• Cash and Carry Plan
• American Public Opinion

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Homework
BATTLE OF IWO JIMA

• Design a statue or monument to commemorate one of
  the key battles of World War II.
• Write a Plaque for the monument that explains the
  significance of your chosen event and at least
  three historical facts, names or details related
  to the event.

Significance Historical fact 1 Historical fact
2 Historical Fact 3
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FALL OF FRANCE

• French Maginot Line
• Belgium Corridor
• France falls in 6 weeks

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US Supports Great Britain

• Britain is Isolated
• France goes down early
• Britain was lone power with ability to stop AXIS
• Atlantic Charter -
• Winston Churchill New Prime Minister of Britain
• FDR and Churchill Met
• Seek no territory
• Support self-rule
• US Response
• Lend-Lease Act March 1941
• Arsenal of Democracy
• Garden Hose
• Germany Attacks US Destroyers

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A Date Which Will Live in Infamy

• Drawing found on a Val shot down during the
  attack. Translated, it says, "Hear! The voice of
  the moment of death. Wake up you fools."

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A Date Which Will Live in Infamy

• Japanese Aggression
• China, French Indochina, Dutch East Indies,
  British Malaya
• Japan needed Oil, Rubber, Food
• US Response
• Cancelled commercial treaty w/Japan
• Stopped exporting gasoline and scrap metal
• December 7, 1941
• US Response
• Declaration of War

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PROPAGANDA
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The United States Goes to War
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North Africa and Italy

• North Africa
• British General Montgomery defeated German Field
  Marshall Erwin Rommel (Desert Fox) at el Alamein
• Sicily and Italy

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D-DAY

• Amphibious Attack in Northern France
• June 6, 1944
• Operation Overlord
• D-Day Designated Day
• Largest Invasion force ever assembled 2 million
  troops
• First waves experienced high casualty rates
• Liberated Paris and Belgium

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Battle of the Bulge

• December 1944
• Nazi Troops squeezed between Soviets and Allies
• Hitler launched a surprise offensive in a
  weakened part of the line
• Created a bulge in the front line

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Allied Victory in Europe

• After Bulge, allies closed in on Berlin
• Allies met at Yalta to discuss terms of German
  surrender
• Berlin ended up under Soviet Control
• Hitler Committed Suicide
• VE Day Victory in Europe
• Discovery of the death camps

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US Strategy in the Pacific

• Pearl Harbor Launched the Pacific War
• American stronghold in the Philippines was lost
• MacArthur I shall return
• Bataan Death March
• Island Hopping Campaign
• Doolittle (Tokyo) Raids
• Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle

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Turning Point in the Pacific

• Establish control over skies and waters of the
  Pacific
• Battle of the Coral
• Sea 1st major battle in Pacific
• Battle of Midway
• June 1942
• Turning point in the Pacific
• Kamikazes

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KAMIKAZES

• Japanese suicide squadrons, known as Kamikaze,
  flew aircraft
• loaded with explosives directly into U.S. naval
  vessels, killing
• themselves in an effort to stop the American
  advance. Altogether, they sank about 40 ships

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Battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa

• US Island hopped their way through the Pacific
• Dangers other than battle
• Monsoons, malaria, heat, earthquakes, jungle
  conditions
• Iwo Jima
• US losses 6800 killed
• 23,000 wounded
• Okinawa
• Costliest engagement 50,000 casualties
• Gave U.S. strong positions to launch air strikes

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The End of the War

• Bombing of Japan
• Blockade of Japan
• Kamikazes
• Manhattan Project
• A-Bomb Attacks
• VJ Day August 14, 1945
• Casualties

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Manhattan Project

• Key Players
• Albert Einstein
• Enrico Fermi
• J. Robert Oppenheimer
• The Decision to drop the Bomb
• August 6, 1945
• Hiroshima
• August 9, 1945
• Nagasaki
• August 14, 1945
• Surrender of Japan

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Effects of the War

• Holocaust
• Nuremburg Trials
• Japanese War Criminals
• Death
• Destruction
• Homefront
• Japanese Internment Camps
• Wartime Economy
• Women and Minorities

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