World War II

1
World War II

• Formation of the Axis
• Nazi Aggression
• Blitzkrieg
• Immediate CausePoland (1939)
• US Response
• Allied Victory

2
Japan Invades Manchuria
3
Formation of the Axis

• Japan in Manchuria (1931)
• Italy in Ethiopia (1935)
• German support
• Germany rearms (1935)
• Anti-Comintern Pact
• Spanish Civil War (1937)
• Bloody ideological struggle between Left Right

4
Nazi Aggression

• Anschluss in Austria (38)
• Czechoslovakia
• Sudetenland3.5 million Germans
• Response of Britain Franceappeasement
• Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (39)
• Invasion of Poland (39)
• Blitzkrieg

5
(No Transcript)
6
BlitzkriegNazi Aggression Expands

• Fall of France (40)
• Italy joins Axis
• Battle of Britain (40)
• Hitler turns east
• Soviet Union

7
U.S. Response

• Lend-Lease
• Pearl Harbor (41)

8
Allied Victory

• Eastern Front--Soviet Triumph
• Nazi racist ideology
• Russian winter
• Soviet numbers
• Western Front
• D-Day (44)
• American defeat of Japan
• Atomic bomb