WWII REVIEW

CAUSES OF WWII• TREATY OF VERSAILLES

– France-Germany not punished harsh enough

– Italy-felt ignored in treaty – Germany-Humiliated

• Democratic Gov. est. Weimar

• RISE OF FASCISM-Glory of State – total control– Italy – Mussolini– Germany – Hitler– Spain – Franco– Soviet Union – Stalin– Japan – Hideki Tojo

• APPEASEMENT• Italy-Ethiopia-Rommel-Desert Fox• Japan – Manchuria• Nazi-Soviet Pact

– Chamberlain-Gr. Britain “achieves peace for our time”• Rhineland• Austria • Sudetenland-Munich Pact allowed this

• ISOLATIONISM– FDR-Quarantine Speech

• Neutrality Act-No arms sold to countries at war

• Cash-and-carry-Buy from US in cash & came to US ports to transport

• Lend Lease Act-US to send weapons to Britain-don’t have to pay

• Atlantic Charter-US & Britain oppose Hitler together – WORK FOR PEACE

THE HOLOCAUST – Killing of 6 million JewsHITLER-Blames Jews for Germany’s problemsAryan Race – Perfect RaceAnti-Semitism-Prejudice against JewsNuremberg Laws-Strips Jews of German citizenship, civil & economic rightsATTACKS ON JEWS:

Kristallnacht – “Night of Broken Glass” - GoebbelsConcentration Camps and Ghettos

WANNSEE CONFERENCEFinal Solution-Extermination Camps

GENOCIDE-Deliberate killing of a race with purpose to exterminate the particular ethnic group

HITLER AND START OF WWII• Chamberlain – APPEASEMENT-gives in to Ger.• Ger. Sends troops into Rhineland, Austria, Czech.• Churchill–Opposes appeasement • Reichstag Law-enables Hitler to establish one-

party Nazi State-acts without consent of Ger. Gov.• Nazi-Soviet Pact-Hitler & Stalin agree not to fight

each other if the other went to war• Hitler invades Poland– Allies (Br. & Fr) declare War on Germany– Axis Powers – Germany, Italy, Japan

U.S. PREPARES FOR WARPEARL HARBOR – FDR “A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY” Selective Service Act Women’s Role – Rosie the RiveterRationing National War Labor Board-to avert strikes-not hinder war effortMANHATTAN PROJECT – OPPENHEIMER-ATOMIC BOMBINTERNMENT CAMPS –Executive order 9066-Japanese forced to leave military zones (West. U.S)

U.S. IN WWII- PACIFICPACIFIC – MacArthur – “I shall return”Bataan Death March – PhilippinesDoolittle's Raid – Tokyo & other cities Midway – Land, air and seaGuadalcanal – Solomon IslandsBattle of Iwo Jima – Mount SuribachiOkinawa – Caves & tunnelsIsland HoppingAtomic Bomb – Hiroshima and Nagasaki – TrumanLeyete Gulf – 1944 – Philippine IslandsElbe River- U.S. & Russians 1945-cut Ger. Army in twoBattle of the Bulge

THE U.S. IN EUROPE1944 – YALTA CONFERENCE –ROOSEVELT, STALIN, CHURCHILL- Dealing with Germany and Europe after the WarD-Day – Allies invade beaches in Normandy FranceBattle of the Bulge – Final Offensive of German against the allies in the ArdennesHitler commits suicide V-E Day –Victory in EuropeU N created to prevent future warsPotsdam Conference – Truman,Stalin,ChurchillNuremburg Trials