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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.
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
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
MAGINOT LINE
Dunkirk
Battle of BritainU.S. Involvement:
Neutrality to Lend-Lease
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•
OPERATION BARBAROSSA
“DEC 7, 1941 A DATE THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”
Why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?
What was fortunate for theAmericans?
Turning points in the War in Europe
Battle of Stalingrad Battle of El Alamein
“Desert Fox”
Montgomery
•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
D-Day
German Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel surrenders at Soviet headquarters in Berlin, May 9, 1945. The war in Europe is over!
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
Turning Points in the Pacific
Coral Sea
Midway
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
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
•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
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
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
War Crimes Trials