Why does a war start?

Countries disagree

Fight for power

Fight over money or land

Aggression

Germany

Appeasement

the policy of giving in to the demands of a hostile or aggressive power in an attempt to keep the peace

Hitler

Tension after World War I

Important dates

July 7th 1937

Japanese invasion of China

Sept. 1st 1939

Germany Invades Poland

Most accepted date

Sept. 3rd 1939

France and Britain declared war on Germany.

New weapons

Advance in weapons cause more deaths

New strategies of fighting

New strategies for moving troops(cliff1066, The Jansville99 memorial May 23, 2009, sept 15, 2009 via flickr)

UK

France

United States

Canada

India

Poland

Clipart from Microsoft.

Germany

Italy

Japan

Clipart from Microsoft.

War of Attrition

Attrition- the act of weakening or exhausting by constant harassment, abuse, or attack

Fighting a war on both borders

What Germany wants

Short quick war, “lightning war”

The Blitzkrieg

German Nazi’s kill Jews

Concentration Camps

Extermination Camps

Auschwitz

Gas Chambers

Troubled Childhood

Abusive father

Alcoholic

Role in WWI

Soldier, was devastated when Germany lost

Rise to power

Fall out of power

The Battle of Britain

The attack on Pearl Harbor

Battle of Stalingrad

Japan attacks U.S.

Does not declare war

U.S. declares war

A-Bomb

Nagasaki

Hiroshima

Flickr, darkly seen, November 9th, 2005

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darklyseen/61793697/

How Borders changed

Germany

Poland

France

San Jose, “map of countries of Europe, 02.04.2006 via Wikipedia, GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2

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Population

Dawn of the Atomic age

The Occupation of Germany and Japan

Release of concentration camps

Becomes a Superpower

Out of the Great depression

Problems with Russia

Cold War

Problems in the middle east

Clipart from Microsoft.

Becomes a Superpower

Cold War

Problems with the U.S.

Gorbachev

U.S. likes him as a leader

UK

Military Deaths- 382,600

Civilian Deaths- 67,800

US

Military Deaths- 407,318

Civilian Deaths- 11,200

Germany

Military Deaths- 5,500,000

Civilian Deaths- 200,000ww2db.com/country