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WWII 1939-1945 In the 1930’s neither Germany, Italy, Japan, nor the U.S.S.R. was content with the conditions of the Paris peace conference. Great Britain, France, and the U.S. were satisfied powers but they had lost faith in the conditions and were unwilling to risk war for the sake of upholding them.

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WWII 1939-1945

In the 1930’s neither Germany, Italy, Japan, nor the U.S.S.R. was content with the conditions of the Paris peace conference. Great Britain, France, and

the U.S. were satisfied powers but they had lost faith in the conditions and were unwilling to risk

war for the sake of upholding them.

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Three Little Words That Will Lead To WWII

Pacifism• U.S.• England• France

Isolationism• U.S.

Appeasement

• Daladier• Chamberlai

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Appeasement & Gradual Encroachment

Repudiated the Treaty –

Armedthe military

Reoccupied the Rhineland Anschluss

Spanish Civil War -

Munich Crisis – Sudetenland

Appeasement Ends

British Pact with Poland, Greece, and

Romania

Nazi-Soviet Pact War is coming

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BEGINNING OF WWIISept 1, 1939 Germany Invades Poland

Sept 3, 1939 France and Great Britain declare war on Germany

U.S.S.R. invades Poland, Baltic States, and Finland

“Phony” War – Blitzkrieg – Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France Maginot Line???

Dunkirk and “Vichy” France

Italy invades S. France, Greece, and Africa

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MAGINOT LINE

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Dunkirk

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Battle of BritainU.S. Involvement:

Neutrality to Lend-Lease

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Eastern FrontHitler takes the Balkans

• Romania, Bulgaria, & Hungary were Axis

• Yugoslavia and Greece were occupied

Hitler invades Russia

• 3 Million troops

• 2000 mile front

Battles

• Leningrad• Stalingrad• Moscow•

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OPERATION BARBAROSSA

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“DEC 7, 1941 A DATE THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”

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Why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?

What was fortunate for theAmericans?

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Turning points in the War in Europe

Battle of Stalingrad Battle of El Alamein

“Desert Fox”

Montgomery

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•What happens to MussoliniBattle for Italy

•June 6 1944 Operation Overlord•General Eisenhower•130,000 – 1st Day 1 million in a monthBattle of Normandy•General PattonBattle of the Bulge

•Why allowed into Berlin 1st?•What was lost because of this?Russian Advances

•May 8 1945V-E Day

TURNING PTS TO END OF WAR IN EUROPE

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D-Day

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German Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel surrenders at Soviet headquarters in Berlin, May 9, 1945. The war in Europe is over!

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HolocaustNuremberg Laws• Star of David• Jews have to

register• Limited in jobs

and marriage

“Final Solution”• Ghetto’s• Concentration

camps• Extermination• Experiments

Warsaw Ghetto

Liberated camp

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Turning Points in the Pacific

Coral Sea

Midway

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USS YORKTOWN HIT BY JAPANESE CARRIER PLANES. IT WAS THE ONLY CARRIER THE U.S. LOST. THE JAPANESE LOST FOUR CARRIERS AND ALL THEIR PILOTS.

Battle of Midway

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Island Hopping to HiroshimaIsland Hopping Major Battles

• Philippines• Guam• Guadal Canal• Solomon

Island• Wake• Saipan• Marshal Island• Iwo Jima• Okinawa

Atomic Bombs• Aug. 6 1945• Aug. 8 1945• Aug. 9 1945• Aug. 14 1945• Sep. 2 1945

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•IWO JIMA, OKINAWA, AND THE KAMIKAZES•FIREBOMBING OF JAPAN•HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

THE DECISION TO DROP THE ATOMIC BOMBS

American Casualties for Iwo Jima & Okinawa exceeded 90,000

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MODEL OF “LITTLE BOY” ATOMIC BOMB

ENOLA GAY, PLANE THAT DROPPED THE BOMB

THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY, PLANE THAT DROPPED THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB ON JAPAN

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Conferences – The Big 3AtlanticCharter

• Similar to Wilson’s 14 pts

• FDR and Churchill

Casablanca & Teheran

• Unconditional Surrender

• Occupation of Germany

• Demilitarization of Germany

Yalta

• E. Europe – Provisional gov’ts until elections

• Cuzon Line: Polish border

• Germany – 4 zones

• Reparations to those who suffered the most

• UN• Russia – enters

war in East after defeat of Germany

Potsdam

• Postwar treatment of Germany

• Denazification• War criminals

• New Big Three

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War Crimes Trials