SST-World War II

Casualties

WWII From Space

World War II- The Beginnings

United Kingdom

Lost a generation of males

Not looking for major European War

Colonies- Maintained colonies + dominions

Things were getting shaky--see India

Irish Independence

Soviet Union

Operation Barbarossa

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Stalinsim

5-Year Plans

Famine

Increasingly involved in international relations

Communist politics parties in many countries

Battle of Belgium, May 1940

Blitzkrieg- Lightning warfare

air, tank, infantry, artillery

British and French Troops tried to stop them

Operation Dynamo- British troops escape

Began June 1941

Russian Winters

War machine freezes

Stalingrad

Germany

Germany's War Machine

Country is decimated by WWI and Treaty of Versailles

Militarized the Rhineland

-against Treaty of Versailles

Political instability

NAZI party

Pan-Germanic

Social Darwinism/Eugenics

"Third Reich"- realm

Tanks

Aircraft

Submarines

R&D

Militarize boarder

NAZI War Machine on the Move

Munich Conference, Sept 30 1938

Neville Chamberlain

Gian Cian

Adolf Hitler

Benito Mussolini

Mussolini underling

Even more excited to be here than Mussolini

Sudeten Crisis

United cultural Germans

Free from Treaty of Versailles

Edourad Daladier

Doing similar things as Hitler

Spread of nationalism

Political suppression

Did not want war

Signed a shady agreement with Hitler

"Anglo-German Agreement"

Appeasement

...not happy

Warned of future aggressions

Czechoslovakia

Ceased to 'exist'...but comes back :)

Fragmented based on ethnic lines

Show of German military

precursor

Battle of France

Maginot line- failed at Ardennes

Was a resistance movement- communist

France

Massive losses

Defensive

Maginot Line-

At least they are good friends with England

Iran

Suffered atrocities during WWI by Ottoman-Empire

Assyrian massacre at Urmia

1921- Reza Khan Pahlavi- Military overthrow of Ahmad Shah Qajar

Shah- name for ruler

Dynasty system- familial succession of rule

Pahlavi Dynasty (1925-1979)- Constitutional Monarchy

US/"Western" friendly

Middle East and Dominion System

Semi-autonomous

Chapter XI

Provide security

Promote self-governance

Used as economic tools

Spain

1936- Spanish Civil War

nationalist vs republican

WWII was in full swing by the time they figured it out

Nationalists won

Francisco Franco

Military dictatorship

Japanese Empire

Historically a closed society

Culturally

Economically

1854- US and Japan

Convention of Kanagawa

Commodore Matthew Perry

Meiji Restoration- 1868-1912

International Reaction

1st Sino-Japanese War, 1931

Occupation condemned by League of Nations

Japan leaves League of Nations

Comintern Pact with Germany

Communism was threat to world

Japanese Empire required resources

oil

rubber

metals

aka things it takes to build:

ships airplanes

Second Sino-Japanese War

Japan invades July, 1937

Start of military conflict in WWII

Japan invades French-Indochina, 1940

US places oil embargo on Japan

Nanking Massacre (1937)

Well equipped

Loyal to emperor

United States

Slowly Recovering from Great Depression

Changing role in gov

Growth in Nationalism

French Colonial Africa

Mexico

Revolution, 1910-1920

Military Coups

Assassinations

India

The "Gem" of the British Empire

Resources: spices, dyes, labor, consumer market

Civilization Discourse and High Imperialism

Educate- Enlightenment ideas

Locke, Rousseau, Marx

India's Independence

Sense of nationalism forms

Use language of Enlightenment "Liberty" and civil protests

Brutal crackdowns- assassinations, imprisonment

Mahatma Gandhi- Civil disobedience- Salt strikes

Muslims and Hindu- Two major religions practiced by population

Tensions flared in public policy and cultural practices

French Indo-China

Resources:

Rubber

Oil

Labor

Market

Geo location

Central America

Panama

Originally a colony of Spain

Upon Spanish exile, became a territory of Colombia 1821-1903

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty- Panama and US relations

US dominated Panama politics and economics

South America

Brazil

Regular economic and military crises in late 19th century

1930- Getúlio Dornelles Vargas

Communist revolt- resulted in crack down

Vargas assumes total military dictatorship

Extreme violence

Restricted press

Indonesia

Dutch colony since early 1800s

Dutch East India Company

Resources: spices (nutmeg, cloves, pepper)

South-South America

British Colonial Africa

Argentina

Economically successful in the early 19th century

By far the best off nation in South America

EQ: What were the political, economic and/or social conditions globally prior to WWII?