World War II

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World War II

• 1931-1945
• By Jodi Pollard

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Joseph Stalin

• He was focused on creating a model communist
  state.
• Agricultural and Industrial growth was
• made the main economic goals.
  
• Historians estimate to be
• responsible for 8-13 million deaths.
• He had made a totalitarian government in Russia,
  which was known as the Soviet Union at the time.

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Benito Mussolini

• He took over Italy.
• To come into power started
• riots so that he could come to
• the countrys rescue.
• He favored the Fascist Party.
• Mussolini and his many followers
• marched on Rome, which had made
• the king appoint him the head of the
  government.
• As well as Stalin, he had established a
  totalitarian state in Italy.

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Adolf Hitler

• Started out as a jobless soldier after WWI.
• Joined the National Socialist German Workers
  Party (Nazi Party).
• Quickly became the partys leader.
• Due to the Great Depression,
• many Germans were left
• unemployed, so they joined
• Hitlers army.
• Having so many people
• join his party, The Nazi Party became the
  strongest political party in Germany.

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Neutrality Acts

• The first two acts had outlawed the sales of arms
  to any nation at war.
• Due to the fighting in Spain,
• the third act extended it to
• any nation in a civil war.
• Roosevelt found staying
• neutral impossible.
• As soon as Japan had declared war on China, the
  U.S. started sending supplies to China.
• Facing criticism, Roosevelt backed down and
  stayed out of the war for a while longer.

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Holocaust

• Hitler wanted to create a master race in
  Germany.
• He ordered all non-Aryans
• to be removed.
• Jews were targeted the most,
• but there were also all
• non-whites, soviets, gypsies,
• and homosexuals targeted.
• Over 11 million people died in the Holocaust.
• Many people tried to immigrate to the U.S. to
  escape Hitler, but many died on the way over.

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Kristallnacht

• AKA The Night of
• the Broken Glass.
• The Nazis ran through
• Jewish neighborhoods and
• broke windows and burned
• down buildings.
• About 100 Jews were killed.
• Hundreds more Jews were injured.
• Around 30,000 were arrested.
• After all the destruction they caused they had
  blamed the Jews.

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Concentration Camps

• AKA Labor Camps
• Most families were separated and would never see
  each other again.
• Hunger, Humiliation,
• and work that almost always
• led to death were only some
• of the obstacles faced by
• the prisoners.
• They were crammed into
• barracks that could hold around a
• thousand people at a time.
• The inmates would work from dawn to dusk every
  day.
• If they were to weak to work, they were killed.

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Axis Powers

• Japan
• Germany
• Italy
• Russia
• Finland

• Hungary
• Bulgaria
• Albania
• Romania
• Thailand

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Allies

• England
• United States
• Soviet Union
• France
• Australia
• Belgium
• Bolivia
• Norway
• Poland

• Brazil
• Canada
• China
• Denmark
• Greece
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• South Africa
• Yugoslavia

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Pearl Harbor

• Followed by 180 Japanese warplanes, and Japanese
• bomber swooped over Pearl Harbor.
• The planes were almost
• undisturbed by the American
• tries for defense for an
• hour and a half,
• 2,403 were killed and
• 1,178 were injured.
• The attack sunk 21 ships,
• more than 300 aircrafts were damaged or
  destroyed.
• War was then declared on Japan by the U.S.
• Germany and Italy then declared war on the U.S.

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D-Day

• June 6, 1944
• The Allied invasion
• known as Operation
• Overload.
• Three divisions dropped
• down by parachute behind
• German lines a little bit after midnight.
• The three divisions were shortly followed by
  thousands of seaborne soldiers.
• German retaliation was brutal.

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V-E Day

• Victory in Europe Day
• Ended the war in Europe.
• The Third Reich had surrendered because of
  Hitlers death.
• Hitler shot himself while his wife, Eva Braun,
  had drank poison.

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Hiroshima

• On August 6, Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber, dropped an
  atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
• Hiroshima was an
• important military
• center in Japan.
• It took the atomic bomb
• only 43 seconds to destroy
• the whole city. Three days later
• another bomb was dropped on a city called
  Nagasaki.
• Estimated 200,000 people were killed as a result
  of injuries and radiation poisoning caused by the
  bombs.

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Womens roles during WWII

• They got the jobs
• that men had before
• they went off to the war.
• They were military nurses
• WAAC (Womens Auxiliary Army Corps. Was formed.
• Under the WAAC bill the women could work in
  non-combat positions.

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Nuremberg Trials

• 24 surviving Nazi leaders were
• put on trial following the discovery
• of Hitlers death camps.
• The trials were held in a
• German town called Nuremberg.
• Half of the defendants were put
• to death and the rest were sent to prison.
• Many Nazis involved in the Holocaust did go free
  and we never put to trial.
• Even though many didnt get a trial, these trials
  did prove that any individual is responsible for
  their own actions.

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Weapons of WWII

• Tanks, planes and warships.
• The Tanks were important to
• the war because not only was
• it a weapon, but it also provided
• some protection.
• Bullets could not penetrate the
• sides of a tank so the people inside
• could attack the enemy with a sense of
  protection.
• The planes were important to the war because
  people could drop bombs over cities and be able
  to maneuver better.
• The planes were also a quicker way of
  transportation for surprise attacks.
• The warships were important to war because then
  people could attack for the water and also cut
  across the oceans to get to where they wanted to
  attack.

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Casualties

• Allies
• Great Britain-452,000
• France-250,000
• USA-295,000
• Poland-120,000
• China-3,500,000
• Total-18,587,000

• Axis
• Germany-3,250,000
• Austria-230,000
• Italy-330,000
• Japan-1,700,000
• Total-5,930,000

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