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World War II

• The Unfinished Business
• Of
• The Great War

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How did 1919 Paris Peace Conference contribute to
rising tensions in the 30s?
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How did 1919 Paris Peace Conference contribute to
rising tensions in the 30s?

• European Allies (GB, France Italy)
• Desire to punish weaken Germany
• Negotiate traditionally Winner / Loser
• Sought security from future aggression
• Execute the secret treaties
• US wanted to create lasting peace
• Wilsons Fourteen Points
• League of Nations

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How did 1919 Paris Peace Conference contribute to
rising tensions in the 30s?

• Germany
• War Guilt Clause, , Occupation, Borders
• Weimar Republics instability
• Italy
• Treaty of London promises LAND!
• Fiume more!
• Japan
• Pacific Rim control G islands free hand in
  Asia
• Equal status as a Great Power? Racism!

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The Road to World War II
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Rhineland Austria Munich Conference 38

• Sudetenland demanded
• Munich Pact avoids war
• Hitler takes over Czechoslovakia early 39

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Checking 4 Understanding

• Which nation(s) did Japan have conflict with?
• China, Russia, Korea
• Which nation was conquered by Fascist Italy?
• Ethiopia
• Which areas did Hitler annex in the 30s prior to
  armed conflict?
• Rhineland, Austria, Sudetenland, Czech

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Pablo Picasso Cubist PaintingGuernica,
1937What is he communicating?
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Hitler Poland

• Lebensraum
• Polish Corridor
• Goal German Unification

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War in Europe Phase I

• Invasion of Poland 9/1/1939
• Nazi Blitzkrieg
• Air attack
• Armor
• Infantry
• USSR Expands per Nazi-Soviet Pact
• Eastern Poland
• Baltic nations
• Finland
• Sitzkrieg Phony War WAIT

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War in Europe Blitzkrieg Phase II 1940

• Invasion of Scandinavia
• Norway Denmark
• Invasion of Low Countries
• Holland, Belgium Luxembourg
• Invasion of France
• Dunkirk (Gs Mistake)
• Capture of Paris
• Occupied France
• v. Vichy France is a puppet state of Nazi G

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WW II Phase II continued

• Operation Sea Lion gtgt Battle of Britain
• GB is isolated, Nazi controls Continent
• Prime Minister Churchill finest hour
• Nazi Luftwaffe bombs military targetsoops,
  civilians too!
• GB bombs Berlin Hitler angry ?
• Nazi bombing shifts to London BLITZ
• the Blitz day night bombings
• RAF defends with help of RADAR
• US is neutral isolationism but WC FDR deal
• Cash Carry gt Destroyer Deal gt Lend Lease gt
  Atlantic Charter
• Hitler abandons plan where next?

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Operation BarbarossaJune 1941

• Hitler invades USSR
• Stalin unprepared
• Stalin Scorched Earth Plan
• Nazi Siege of Leningrad
• 9/41 gtgt survival
• Moscow
• 10/41 gtgt WINTER!!
• Stalingrad oil fields
• 8/41 gtgt 2/42
• Urban Warfare
• Soviets defend drive Nazis back turning point

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WW II The Pacific TheaterJapan v. US

• Japan expanded into Indochina SE Asia
• Japanese aggression gtgt US Embargo no more oil
• Gen. Tojo
• Takes control of Japan
• Envoys negotiating peace in Washington, DC
• 12/7/1941 J surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plus
  Hong Kong (GB), Wake (US), Guam (US) Thailand
• a day which will live in infamy

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The Effect of Pearl Harbor Attack

• US declares war 12/8/1941 on Japan
• G Italy declare war on US vice versa
• US Entry into WW2!
• 1942 Japanese victories
• PhilippinesBataan
• Singapore Malaysia
• Dutch East Indies
• Doolittle B-25 Raid 4/1942
• US deciding on focus point strategy

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1942A Big Year for the Allies

• European Theater
• Aug 42 Stalingrad
• Oct 42 El Alamein
• Nov 42
• Operation Torch (US)
• Gen Eisenhower

• Pacific Theater
• May 42 Coral Sea
• June 42 Midway
• Island Hopping
• Gen. MacArthur
• Aug 42 Guadalcanal

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The Big Three FDR, Churchill, Stalin
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The Big Meetings

• 1941 Atlantic Charter by FDR/WC
• Idealistic statement of goals
• Freedom from want tyranny
• Freedom of seas, religion sovereignty
• 1943 Casablanca Conference FDR/WC
• Unconditional Surrender demanded
• 1943 Tehran Conference FDR/WC/JS
• G to be disarmed occupied
• 1945 Yalta Conference FDR/WC/JS
• Postwar agreements UN, G divided, RgtJ, Eastern
  European governments

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Operation Overlord D-Day

• Invasion of France
• 6/6/1944
• Allied Foothold gt Liberation of France gt Germany

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Big Meetings

• Potsdam Conference
• HST (FDR now dead),
• Stalin GB (no WC)
• Demand for unconditional surrender of Japan (?)
• Ultimatum to Japan
• no response A-Bombs away
• Tension HST ltgt Stalin

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The Home Front

• Role of Women
• Industrial jobs
• Spies Support
• Raising Citizens
• Propaganda
• Ideology
• Censorship
• Raising Money
• Bonds Taxes
• Rationing

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The End of WW2

• Europe
• D-Day gt March to Berlin
• US controls western Europe
• USSR controls eastern Europe
• Hitler and other key Nazis commit suicide
• War Crimes Trials
• Crimes Against Humanity

• Pacific
• Island Hopping to Tokyo
• Firebombing of Tokyo
• Invasion or bomb?
• August 1945
• Hiroshima
• Nagasaki
• J Surrenders
• War Crimes Trials

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Now What?

• How will the world change as a result of this
  war?
• Europe?
• Asia?
• Africa?
• Middle East?
• Western Hemisphere?