Unit 5 World War II Ch. 16

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Unit 5 World War IICh. 16

• the war claims an average of
• 27,600 lives/day
• 1150 lives/hour
• 19 lives/minute
• 1 life every 3 seconds 
• An Army at Dawn Rick Atkinson

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Hitler and Stalin 5-paragraph Essay

• Similar to Mao/Gandhi, just in writing!
• Compare and contrast the lives of Germans under
  Hitlers rule to those of Russians under Stalins
  rule. What did each ruler do to gain and keep his
  power, and how were the lives of the people
  changed in each country?

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Adolf Hitler Hitler Search

• Fascism
• A totalitarian philosophy of government that
  glorifies the state and nation and assigns to the
  state control over every aspect of national life
• An EXTREME form of Nationalism
• The Seducer

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Joseph Stalin Stalin search

• Totalitarianism Government control over every
  aspect of public and private life
• TOTAL control
• Stalin Man of Steel

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Appeasement

• European leaders give in to Hitlers demands in
  order to avoid war, neglecting the ToV
• September 1938 Munich Conference
• Lebensraum 1936-1938
• Czechoslovakia, Rhineland, Sudetenland
• Austria - Anschluss
• Aug. 1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
• 10 yr. Peace btwn Germany and USSR

Nazi occupation flag
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The Start of War

• Sept. 1 1939
• Germany invades Poland
• Blitzkrieg
• England and France
• declare war
• USSR moves from the East

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Early German Offensives

• France Surrenders

• Battle of Britain

• German Army sweeps thru France in six weeks
• France Surrenders
• June 22 1940

• Operation Sea Lion
• October 1940-May 1941
• Air warfare
• German Luftwaffe vs British RAF
• Hitler wants to soften up Britain so he can invade

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MORE German Offensives

• Operation Barbarossa
• June 22, 1941
• Hitler invades USSR, breaks Pact
• Battle of Stalingrad (turning point of WW2)
• Soviet victory

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U.S enters the War Pacific Theater

• PEARL HARBOR
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vk9RSzcKp6Ww
• Dec. 7 1941 A date which will live in infamy
  - FDR
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v9uCGxk-v-Mc
• U.S. declares war on ALL of the Axis Powers
• Describe your feelings while listening to FDRs
  speech. What emotions did he address?

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European Theater

• 1942-1943 Axis Powers
• gaining and winning!!
• El Alamein turning point in North Africa
• Tank warfare
• Desert Fox Erwin Rommel, Germany
• Patton- US
• Allies advance into Italy

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European Theatre

• Combined Allied attack in Normandy
• Established a beachhead in Europe
• Advancing towards Berlin Battle of the Bulge

June 6, 1944 D-Day
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Race to Berlin

• Allies coming from West, South and North
• Soviets coming from the East (win the race!)
• Hitler commits suicide April 30, 1945
• Germany surrenders May 7, 1945

Berlin ruins TODAY
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Europe After the War

• Economies ruined
• Govt changes
• Increased US influence
• Communism spreads
• http//warchronicle.com/numbers/WWII/deaths.htm
• COLD WAR begins

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War in the Pacific

• Japanese militarism and Imperialism
• Meiji Restoration
• Spreading Empire -
• SE Asia, Korea and towards the U.S.
• (even Alaska!)
• Powerful Navy

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War in the Pacific

• Island Hopping
• Mostly between U.S. Marines and Japanese soldiers
• Japanese and U.S. Navies
• Battle of Midway turning point

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Japanese Refuse to Surrender

• Invading Japan would cost 500,000-1,000,000 US
  lives
• Harry Truman decides to drop Atomic bombs
• August 6, 1945 Hiroshima
• August 9, 1945 Nagasaki
• September 2, 1945 Mac Arthur accepts Japanese
  surrender
• De-militarization and US
• Japanese Modernization
• China?

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The BIG Questions

• Was Truman right in his decision to drop the
  bomb?
• What other choices did he have?
• What consequences did this decision have for the
  war and beyond?

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WW2 Summary So Far

• January 30, 1933 Hitler named Chancellor
• Sept. 1, 1939 Blitzkrieg (WW2 begins)
• Dec. 7, 1941
• Pearl Harbor
• 42-43 Axis control and success

• Allied Turning Points
• 1942-1943
• Stalingrad
• El Alamein
• June 6, 1944 D-Day
• April 30, 1945
• May 7, 1945

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The Holocaust

• K W - L

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vzaCdKwFcHnw

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Genocide

• The deliberate and systematic destruction of an
  entire people who belong to one racial,
  political, cultural or religious group.
• Genocide is Hitlers Final Solution to the
  Problem

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Nazi Holocaust Timeline

• 1933 book burnings begin
• March 1933 Dachau opens as a Work Camp
• 1935 Nuremberg Laws
• Jobs, citizenship, property
• Yellow stars of David
• 1937 Mass exodus of Jews from Germany
• 1938 Polish ghettos
• November 9, 1938 Kristallnacht
• 1941 First Death Camps
• 1942 Hitlers Final Solution begins use of
  Zyklon B
• 1945 Allied liberation

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Oscar Schindler
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Hitler Writing Prompt

• Explain how Adolf Hitler used German Nationalism,
  Propaganda, and the Treaty of Versailles to gain,
  and then KEEP power in Germany during the 1920s
  and 1930s.