wwii world war i part two. introduction: most devastating war in human history 55 million dead 1...
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How It Began Lots of factors WWI leftovers Germany defeated in and had to pay cost of war. In huge economic depression Italy victorious but wanted more territory Japan victorious but wanted China Outside factors…TRANSCRIPT
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World War I Part Two
Introduction:
Most devastating war in human history• 55 million dead• 1 trillion dollars
Began in 1939 as strictly a European Conflict
• Widened to include most of the world
How It Began
Lots of factors WWI leftovers
• Germany defeated in and had to pay cost of war. In huge economic depression
• Italy victorious but wanted more territory• Japan victorious but wanted China
Outside factors…
What Were These Outside Factors?
Germany reduced size League of Nations French and British unsure U.S. isolationist
Hitler Gets Busy
Gestapo Created -- April, 1933 Jewish Boycott – April, 1933 Jewish Books Banned & Burned – May, 1933 27,000 People in Camps – July, 1933 60,000 People in Camps – 1938 Illegal to Leave Germany – October, 1941
1933 – First Anti-Jewish laws 1935 – Nurenburg Race laws strip Jews of
citizenship 1938 – Kristallnacht: Night of shattered
glass – a young Jewish man kills a member of the German embassy in Paris and Nazis use this as an excuse of retaliation.
SS reported 7500 businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues burned, 91 Jews killed and 25,000 deported.
Kristallnacht and Ghetto
Ghettos
The remaining Jews in Germany were forced to live in Ghettos.
Their property was seized and given to Aryans.
German Territorial Gains
Austria – March, 1938 - Anschluss Border of Czechoslovakia – Sept., 1938 All of Czechoslovakia – March, 1939 APPEASEMENTAPPEASEMENT Poland – Sept., 1939 By Summer of 1940, Germany Controlled
Most of Europe• World shocked as France falls to Germans
Those Dumb Enough To Ally Stalin and the Soviet Union, 1939
• Betrayed by 1941
Mussolini and Italy, 1939• Off and on betrayed until Italian defeat in 1943
Benito Mussolini founded the Fascist party. Fascists glorified the state, supported aggressive nationalism, and condemned democracy because they believed rival parties
divided the state.
“An Alliance That Changes War”
Germany “allies” with Japan
Japan was “China Hungry”
Japanese angry over U.S. support of China
Agreed to peace negotiations with U. S.
Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941
Take a look at Japanese video of the bombing of Pearl Harbor
U. S. Involved In War “Do not wake a sleeping giant.”
U.S. declares war on the Empire of Japan. Doesn’t enterEuropean theater until 1943.
Atlantic CharterAugust 1941
Allies United:U.S.S.R, England and The U.S.
Theaters of WWII
Russian – Soviet Union and Germany Italian French North Africa Pacific – U.S. and Japan
Eastern FrontBattle for Stalingrad
Video on World War II - Stalingrad
Normandy Invasion,D-Day June 6, 1944
D-DayLanding on Normandy Beach
Nazi forces now in a squeeze play between Allied forces
April 1945Soviet troops
reach BerlinBattle of BerlinSoviets defeat
Nazi forcesApril 30 – Hitler
commits suicide
V-E DayGermany Surrenders
May 8, 1945
Holocaust
War Continues in Pacific
Japanese soldiers on blockaded islands
Atomic BombHiroshima (8/6/45) and Nagasaki
(8/9/45)
Atomic Bomb
Read a survivor's account of the bombing
Japan Surrenders14 August 1945
Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu
Japan Surrenders
On August 15 the Emperor of Japan broadcast his acceptance of the Potsdam Proclamation, which on July 26, 1945, had set forth the Allies' terms for ending the war. In his address to the nation the Emperor cited that the Americans had "begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is indeed incalculable" and that this, along with the "war situation," was the reason for his accepting the surrender terms.