World War II

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World War II
By Markie Thomas
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How It Began

• The Rise of rulers with total power in Europe and
  Asia led to the start of World War II.

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War In Europe

• Using the sudden mass attack called blitzkrieg,
  Germany invaded and conquered many European
  countries.
• blitzkrieg means lightning war.
• This attack was a sudden massive attack with
  combined air and ground forces, intended to
  achieve a quick victory.

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Nazi Germany

• Adolf Hitler
• Was an Anti-communist
• Was a very forceful leader
• Had militaristic expansionism.

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Fascist Italy

• Benito Mussolini
• Was an Anti-communist.
• Believed in extreme nationalism.
• Was a charismatic leader.

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Communist Soviet Union

• Joseph Stalin
• Believed in Communism

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Winston Churchill

• 1874-1965
• Churchill was believed to be Britains best
  weapon as that nation faced the Nazis.
• Churchill became the prime minister in May 1940.

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Holocaust

• On April 7, 1933 ,shortly after Hitler took power
  in Germany, he ordered all Non-Aryans to be
  removed from government jobs.
• This ended up leading to the Holocaust. Which was
  the systematical murder of 11 million people
  across Europe, and more that half of those people
  were Jews.

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Jews Were Targeted

• Even though the Jews werent the only victims in
  the Holocaust, they were the center of the Nazis
  targets.
• Therefore Germans hated the Jews.
• The Germans often used them as their scapegoat to
  hide their failures.
• They believed that Jews were responsible for
  Germanys economic problems and defeat in World
  War I.

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Kristallnacht

• Nov. 9-10, 1938
• Kristallnacht meaning night of broken glass.
• Nazi troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses,
  and synagogues across Germany.
• Around 100 Jews were killed and injured.
• Some 30,000 Jews were arrested.

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Concentration Camps

• The Jews that werent killed were hauled off to
  these labor camps.
• Life in these camps were cruel of hunger,
  humiliation, and work that almost always ended in
  death.
• Prisoners were held in barracks that could fit
  1,000 people each. Such as the picture on the
  left shows.

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The Final Stage

• Hitler and his top officials agreed upon a 3rd
  method of getting rid of the Jews to help him
  reach his goal of the master race.
• What they came up with was killing them with
  poisonous gas.

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Extermination Time

• The Germans built 6 death camps in Poland.
• Each camp had huge gas chambers that could kill
  as many as 12,000 people a day.

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Auschwitz

• Auschwitz was the largest death camp.
• Prisoners were often lied to when arriving to the
  camp, being told that they were going to take a
  shower.
• After all the prisoners were inside cyanide gas
  seeped through the cracks in the walls killing
  them almost instantly.

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U.S. Enters World War II

• U.S. entered in 1941.
• The U.S. got involved with the war after the
  bombing of Pearl Harbor.
• The Americans provided economic and military aid
  to help the Allies achieve victory.

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Selective Service

• After Pearl Harbor, eager young Americans rushed
  to recruiting offices.
• The 5 million who volunteered for the military
  service was not enough people to face the
  challenge of the 2 global fronts (Europe and
  Pacific).
• The Selective Service System expanded the draft
  and recruited another 10 million soldiers.

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Women In The Military

• After the Womens Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)
  became law, more than 13,000 women applied on the
  first day.
• In total about 350,000 women served in this.

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War Discrimination

• For many minority groups such as African,
  Native, Mexican, and Asian Americans the war
  created a lot of dilemma's.
• Even though the minorities were serving for
  their countries they were still racially
  segregated.

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D-Day

• June 6th, 1944
• Lead by Dwight D. Eisenhower
• The Allied invasion, code-named Operation
  Overload, was originally set up for June 5, but
  was changed due to bad weather.

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Battle of The Bulge

• October 1944 Americans captured the first German
  town.
• Hitler, being upset, sent out his troops to
  break up allied supply lines.
• When they did this they created a bulge in the
  lines, while giving it its name.

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Roosevelts Death

• Pres. Roosevelt did not live to see V E Day (
  victory in Europe day).
• On April 12, 1945, while posing for a portrait he
  had a stroke and died.
• Later on that night V.P. Harry S. Truman became
  the nations 33rd president.

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Atomic Bomb Ends the War

• With Japan possible of an invasion, Pres. Truman
  saw only one way to avoid invasion of Japan.
• He decided to use a powerful new weapon that had
  been developed called the atomic bomb.