World War II

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World War II

• 1939 - 1945

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US Foreign Policy (Post WW I)

• Isolationism
• Insecurity

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Events in Italy

• Benito Mussolini ... Fears of
  Communism
• Fascism (Fascist Party)

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Events in Germany

• Post WW I Economic Chaos
• NAZI Party (NAtional SoZIalist) ... attempt
  overthrow of Weimar Govt
• Adolf Hitler -

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Adolf Hitler

• Chancellor in 1933
• Der Fuhrer
• Gestapo under Heinrich Himmler

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Rise of Hitler

• Depression in Germany
• Hatred of ___________
• Charismatic Emotional

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Hitlers Goals

• Clean the German Race
• Revenge for Treaty of Versailles
• Expand living space

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Hitler in Power

• Schools Propaganda
• Anti-Semitism Policy
• Nuremberg Laws (1935)
• Kristallnacht (Nov 10, 1938)
• Build up _______________

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Italy Germany on the March

• Italy invades Ethiopia
• Rome - Berlin Axis
• Reoccupation of the Rhineland
• Hitlers Bluff
• Appeasement (England / France)

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Aggression (continued)

• Spanish Civil War (1936-39)
• The Anschluss (March 1938) ... Austria
• Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)
• Non-Aggression Pact

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World War II

• Germany invades Poland (Sept 1939)
• WW II officially begins
• Blitzkrieg Warfare
• Fall of France

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Early World War II (cont.)

• Battle of Britain (Winston Churchill) 1st hour
  of movie Pearl Harbor
• Luftwaffe
• Germany invades Soviet Union
• Hitlers Big __________

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U. S. Involvement

• Neutrality Acts
• FDR and Churchill
• trade 50 destroyers
• US lends goods
• _______________ (March 1941)
• Economic declaration of war

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U.S. (continued)

• Atlantic Charter (Aug, 1941)
• Shipping in the Atlantic
• highly ____________
• Selective Training and Service Act (1940)

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Events in Japan

• Open-Door Policy with China (Root)
• Military Extremists in Japan
• Economic Problems
• No natural resources

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Japan (continued)

• Manchuria Incident (1931)
• Japan invades China
• US places embargoes on ____________________
• Tripartite Pact (Sept 1940)

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US - Japan Relations

• Negotiations (Spring 1941)
• Japan invades __________ (July 1941)
• US embargos everything, including ___________
• Freezes Assets
• Purple Code

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Pearl Harbor

• Dec 7, 1941 ... a date that will live in
  infamy. - FDR
• The Attack
• Dec 8 ... US declares War
• Interpretations of Pearl Harbor

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World at War

• Axis Powers
• Germany, Italy, Japan
• Allied Powers
• US, England, Soviet Union

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European Theater

• Allies v. Germany and Italy
• Battle Plans
• Allies Invade North Africa
• Rommel the desert fox
• Eisenhower
• Invade Italy ... Musolini defeated

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Europe (continued)

• Normandy Invasion
• Operation ___________
• Eisenhower
• Greatest Amphibious assault
• Saving Private Ryan

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Europe (continued)

• Hitler Assassination Attempt
• Liberate France ... General George Patton (US
  3rd Army)

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Fall of Germany

• Battle of the Bulge (Dec, 1944)
• Fall of Berlin (April, 1945)
• May 8, 1945 V-E Day

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Pacific Theater (Japan)

• Japan invades Philippines (Dec 1942)
• Gen. Douglas MacArthur
• Bataan Death March
• Island Hopping Strategy

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Pacific (continued)

• Battle of Midway (1942)
• Leyte Gulf (1944)
• Kamikazes
• Iwo Jima and Okinawa
• Bombing of _________ (Summer 1945)

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Atomic Bombs

• Manhattan Project
• Ethical Debate
• Hiroshima (Aug 6, 1945)
• Nagasaki (Aug 9, 1945)
• WW II officially over

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World War II Wrap-up

• Yalta Conference (Feb 1945)
• United Nations
• War Crimes (Nuremberg Tokyo)
• Germany Divided
• Poland - Soviet Relationship
• Death of FDR (April 12, 1945)
• President Harry Truman

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Wrap-Up (continued)

• United Nations
• Holocaust
• 12 million people killed
• 6 million Jews Killed
• _______________

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Look to the Future

• Overall Results
• Two SuperPowers Cold War
• Korea Vietnam
• Nuclear Age