Ends with Hitler's invasion of Norway and Denmark
U.S. unofficially joins the war after a German U-boat fired on a U.S. destroyer in the Atlantic
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- Non-Agression Pact
- Blitzkrieg
- Finland
- Phony War
- Maginot Line
- Siegfried Line
- Sitzkrieg
- Dunkirk
- Petain
- Vichy France
- Charles de Gaulle
- Winston Churchill
- Erwin Rommel
- Neutrality Acts
- Lend-Lease Act
- Atlantic Charter
What role did blitzkrieg play at the start of WWII?
Hitler's
Lightning War
- U.S. was aware of Japan's plans for Southeast Asia
- Solution: send aid to China to protect U.S. colonies
- Japan overthrew Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, & Laos)
- Solution: cut off oil shipments to Japan
The Allies Strike Back
- Battle of Guadalcanal
- Douglas MacArthur
- Island Hopping
- Battle of Midway
- Battle of Coral Sea
- Doolittle
- Bataan Death March
- Pearl Harbor
- Yamamoto
What drove Japan's Pacific campaign and what steps were taken by the Allies to thwart it?
Japan's Pacific Campaign
The Holocaust Begins
- Aryan
- Holocaust
- Kristallnacht
- ghetto
- Final Solution
- genocide
- Wansee Conference
- Evian Conference
- Nuremberg Laws
Why and how did the Holocaust occur?
The Holocaust
The Allied Victory
- Stalin wanted to establish a two-fornt war against Germany
- Instead, Churchill and Roosevelt focus on North Africa and southern Europe
The Allied Home Fronts
Victory in Europe
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- Missouri
- Fat Man
- Little Boy
- Truman
- Battle of Okinawa
- Battle of Iwo Jima
- Kamikazes
- V-E Day
- Eva Braun
- Battle of the Bulge
- D-Day
- Japanese Internment Camps
- Mobilizing
- Rationing
- Victor Emmanuel III
- El Alamien
- General Bernard "Monty" Montgomery
- Operation Torch
- Eisenhower
- Battle of Stalingrad
- General Friedrich Paulus
How did the Allies win the European Campaign during WWII? The Pacific Campaign?
Europe & Japan in Ruins
- 2 house parliament
- Selected a prime minister
- Passed a bill to protect basic freedoms
- Diet
- Democratization
- Demilitarization
- Nuremberg Trials
Erwin Rommel
- Hitler: Take North Africa
- Mussolini: Take Egypt
- German commander of the Afrika Korps that defeated British
- Nicknamed "Desert Fox"
- Between Hitler and Stalin
- Agreement not to fight one another
- Secret: agreement to divide Poland and invade Baltic territories
Rescue At Dunkirk
- German forces trap French forces near Belgium
- Great Britain sends 850 ships
- Carried 338,000 soldiers to safety
Nonagression Pact
September 1, 1939
France and Great Britain Declare War
4:30 min
War In The Balkans
- Hitler wants to invade the USSR
- Needs to take region in order to accomplish
Blitzkrieg
"lightning war"
Fast-moving airplanes & tanks followed by massive infantry forces
The Battle of Britain
The Fall of France
The Mediterranean & the Eastern Front
The U.S. Aids Its Allies
Germany Controlled
Germany Sparks A New War
- French general
- Established a government in exile in London
- Free French Movement
Atlantic Charter
Puppet Govt.
- Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia fell w/o a struggle
Charles de Gaulle
- Roosevelt and Churchill met secretly and issued a joint declaration
- Promoted free trade and self-determination
- Later served as the Allies' peace plan at the end of the war
Finland
German fortifications along the French border
Phony War
Siegfried Line
Hitler kept the Allies' attention on the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg while secretly sending troops through the Ardennes
VS
- One million troops sent in the middle of winter finally brought defeat
President could lend or lease arms and supplies to any country vital to the U.S.
Maginot Line
British and French fortifications along the German border
Lend Lease Act
Illegal to sell arms or lend money to nations at war
Winston Churchill
Breaking Through The Maginot Line
Neutrality Acts
3 min
- British prime minister
- "We shall fight..."
Roosevelt thought if the Allies fell, the US would be drawn into war
Operation Barbarossa
- Hitler's plan to invade USSR
- Leningrad under siege
- Planned to starve 2.5 million inhabitants
- Attention turned to Moscow when Leningrad refussed to give up
- Despite counterattack in the middle of winter, Hitler ordered "No retreat!"
- 500,000 German soldiers died
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
however, they acted like conquerors
"Asia for Asiatics"
U.S. fleet in Hawaii was "a dagger pointed at [Japan's] throat'
- Bombed Tokyo and other Japanese cities
- Psychological turning point
- New warfare strategy
- Airplanes taking off from aircraft carriers attacked ships
- Despite losing more lives, the Allies stopped Japanese advancement
Battle of Coral Sea
Doolittle
1 min
Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese Victories
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A Date Which Will Live In Infamy...
Battle of Midway
- Key American airfield
- Allied code talkers warned of Japanese advancement
- U.S. won
- Commander of Allied Pacific troops
- "island-hop" method
- Battle of Guadalcanal
- Japan abandons the "island of death"
Douglas MacArthur
- Within 2 hours, 19 ships were sunk/damaged
- 2,300 Americans killed
- 1,100 Americans wounded
December 7, 1941
- Japanese considered surrender dishonorable
- POW were viewed with contempt
- Forced march of 70,000 prisoners over 50 miles
- Only 54,000 survived
Bataan Death March
2:30
Had to eliminate other races, nationalities, and groups viewed as "subhumans"
Promotion of the purity of the Aryan race
Legal Jew = 3-4 Jewish grandparents
Nuremberg Laws
1935-36
Refugees
Tactics, Weapons, and the Holocaust
Persecution & Emigration
Kristallnacht
4 min
the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored mass slaughter of jews and other groups judged inferior by the Nazis
1938
1932:
- 40k Jews left = 10% of Jewish population of Germany
1933
Boycott
1942
1933
Wansee Conference
"Germans beware! The owners of this shop are parasites and gravediggers of German trade. They pay their German workers starvation wages. The owner is the jew Nathan Schmidt"
Censorship
CBS News
Holocaust
1941
- Only 30% of original Jewish population remained in Germany
The only solution to the "problem of the Jews"
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/revisiting-the-horrors-of-the-holocaust/
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The
"Final Solution"
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Review
Hitler's program of genocide (the systematic killing of an entire people)
Emigration
& Segregation
- Discussed wave of Jewish emigration
- Decided not to intervene
1938
Evian Conference
Deportations
1941
Ghettos
Star of David
Concentration Camps
Ghettos
1942
Operation Torch
World
Germany's Unconditional Surrender
- Allies moved into the Rhine
- The Soviets approached from the east
- Hitler married his long time companion, Eva Braun
- They both then committed suicide
- May 7, 1945: General Eisenhower accepted the Third Reich's surrender
- May 9, 1945: V-E Day, Victory in Europe Day
- Allied force of 100,000+ troops
- Landed in Moroccco and Algeria under the leadership of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Official defeat of Rommel's Afrika Korps
Battle of Iwo Jima
"This battle is to decide whether we shall live or die...All resistance must be broken in a wave of terror"
Missouri
Battle of the Bulge
General Douglas MacArthur
Fat Man
Battle of Okinawa
The North African Campaign
Enola Gay
Battle of Stalingrad
Little Boy
Truman
- Germany had to fight a two-front war
- Pushed into weak American defenses
- Allies eventually pushed back
- Germans retreated
Bloody land battle where the Japanese lost over 100,00 troops and the Americans 12,000
The Japanese Surrender
General Bernard "Monty" Montgomery
- Took control of British forces in North Africa
- Battle of El Alamien: Rommel's army defeated
Shortage of consumer goods
- German army stalled in Leningrad and Moscow
- Bad winter made situation worse
- General Friedrich Paulus's 6th Army was ordered by Hitler to capture industrial centers in the area
- Lutwaffe issued nightly bombing raids that allowed them to control 90% of the city
- Winter weather allowed Russians to cut-off supplies to Germans
Victory in the Pacific
The Tide Turns on Two Fronts
Japanese Internment Camps
4 min
The Japanese Retreat
Nuclear Bombings
- 1943
- U.S. & G.B. take Sicily
- Mussolini arrested by King Victor Emmanuel III
- Italy surrenders
- Germany takes northern Italy and puts Mussolini back in power
- Allies invade Rome
- Mussolini, disguised as a German soldier, was caught outside of Milan. He was then shot and hung.
The Invasion of Italy
- June 6, 1944
- Code-named Operation Overlord
- Allied invasion of France
- Dummy army set-up to trick HItler into thinking the Allies would attack Calais
- Three million troops invaded Normandy
2 Min
D-Day
Kamikazes
4 min
Diet
- 2 million dead
- Major cities, like Tokyo, were destroyed
- Stripped of its colonial empire
Country was in ruins...
New Constitution In Japan
Nuremberg Trials
- Internation Military Tribunal
- Represented 23 nations
- Dealt with issue of Nazi "crimes against humanity"
- Most important change
- Emperor no longer had divine right
- Emperor's power decreased
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Postwar Politics
Postwar Japan
Devastation in Europe
Occupation Brings Change
process of creating a government elected by the people
Membership initially skyrocketed in France and Italy until their economies began to recover
Democratization
Communist Party
General MacArthur didn't want to plant the seeds of future war
Demilitarization
disbanding of armed forces
Pushed government to sell land of absentee landlords to tenant farmers at reasonable prices
Economic
Occupation
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