WORLD WAR II

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WORLD WAR II

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WAR AIMS

• GERMANY
• Lebensraum living space in Eastern Europe
• European and world domination
• Genocide Final Solution

• ITALY
• Control Adriatic, E. Mediterranean
• Restore glory that was Rome
• Domination over North Africa

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WAR AIMS

• BRITAIN
• Preserve empire
• Defeat Hitler
• Protect British global dominance

• FRANCE
• Regain sovereignty
• Defeat Hitler
• Preserve empire
• Restore French honor

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WAR AIMS

• USSR
• Defend homeland
• Defeat Hitler
• Expand Soviet power
• Expand communism

• UNITED STATES
• (Changed as war progressed)
• Keep out of war (till Pearl Harbor)
• Defeat Hitler
• Unconditional surrender
• Help Eur. preserve empire
• Leadership of Free World

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WWII IN EUROPE

• Compare with WWI (see chart)
• Role of the Soviet Union spoiler savior
  invaded by Hitler, 1941
• 1942-43 Stalingrad, turning point in Europe
• 1943 unconditional surrender
• 1944 D-Day, June 6
• V-E Day, May 8, 2004

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HOLOCAUSTThe Final Solution

• Who authorized? What plans?
• Jan. 20, 1942 Wannsee Protocol
• Planned to cleanse German living space of Jews
  in a legal manner
• Hitler to Himmler Exterminate Jews as
  partisans.
• What did Germans know and when did they know it?
• What did Am, British know, when did they know it,
  and what did they do about it?

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We Will Never Speak About It in Public

• We do not want, in the end, because we destroyed
  a bacillus, to be infected by this bacillus and
  to die. I will never stand by and watch while
  even a small rotten spot develops or takes hold.
  Whatever it may form we will together burn it
  away. All in all, however, we can say that we
  have carried out this most difficult of task in a
  spirit of love for our people. And we have
  suffered no harm to our inner being, our soul,
  our character... - Heinrich Himmler

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The area beneath this lamp was the site of
Hitlers bunker and his final days.
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The Reichstag Today
The Russians Liberating Berlin, 1945
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Memorials to Victims of the Holocaust
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WAR AIMS JapanPacific War (15 year war)
1931-1945

• Newer vision
• Future belongs to Germany and Japan
• Anti-Western attitudes
• ABCDFR encirclement.
• Asia for the Asians
• Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
• 1931 - Manchuria

• Older vision
• Cooperate with West
• US the strength, cant preemptively strike
• US leading trade partner
• After Depression, less popular
• No fear from USSR after German invasion

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Pearl Harbor The USS Arizona Memorial and The
Missouri Battleship August 15, 2003
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USS ARIZONA
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The USS Arizona Memorial Today
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Tomb for the USS Arizona victims
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Arizona Memorial Oil still seeps out of the
hulk.
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WHY PEARL HARBOR?I heard it on the radioMy
blood boiled at the news

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THE PACIFIC THEATER
MIDWAY
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FATAL MISCALCULATIONS

• Germany will win war in Europe.
• America wont fight in Asia over China.
• Belief in own hypesee RGH 72, p. 301
• I am a patriot
• War with China 1937
• Quagmire

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PACIFIC WAR

• Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
• 1942 Battle of Midway
• Island-hopping MacArthur
• Kami-kazes The Imperial Way
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki Why?
• ultimate terror weapon
• An End and a Beginning

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NAGASAKI
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JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC WAR

• TOTAL WAR
• COLONIAL WAR
• RACE WAR
• BRUTAL AND DEVASTATING WAR
• UNRESOLVED WAR
• 15 YEAR WAR recognizes J. aggression, liberal
  view
• Greater East Asian War what J. called war
  during war, conservative view
• Pacific War encouraged by US b/c includes
  allies.

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A Hiroshima Maidens Tale

• My clothes were burnt and so were my skin. I was
  in rags. I had braided my hair, but now it was
  like a lions mane. There were people, barely
  breathing, trying to push their intestines back
  in. People with their legs wrenched off. Without
  heads. Or with faces burned and swollen out of
  shape. The scene I saw was a living hell. -
  Yamaoka Michiko