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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

Taboo Review

  • 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

Taboo Review

  • 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

Hitler Invades Poland

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.

Petain

  • WWI hero
  • Vichy France
  • 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

"sitzkrieg"

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

12 min

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

Taboo Review

An Allied Offensive

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

"sacrifice by fire"

Public Book-Burning

1941

  • Only 30% of original Jewish population remained in Germany

Greek

The only solution to the "problem of the Jews"

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/revisiting-the-horrors-of-the-holocaust/

* Extra Enrichment 12 min

The

"Final Solution"

Taboo Review

Experiential

Video

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

  • Auschwitz
  • Dachau

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"

American marines win

Missouri

Battle of the Bulge

General Douglas MacArthur

Fat Man

Nagasaki

Battle of Okinawa

August 9, 1945

The North African Campaign

Enola Gay

Hiroshima

Battle of Stalingrad

Little Boy

August 6, 1945

Truman

  • Germany had to fight a two-front war
  • Pushed into weak American defenses
  • Allies eventually pushed back
  • Germans retreated

Manhattan Project

Bloody land battle where the Japanese lost over 100,00 troops and the Americans 12,000

The Japanese Surrender

Mobilizing for Total War

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

Rationing

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

Japanese suicide pilots

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

Taboo Review

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

4 min

War II

the strategy employed by the United States to gain military bases and secure the many small islands in the Pacific

Island Hopping/Leapfrogging

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