World War II

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World War II

• WHII.11 The student will demonstrate knowledge
  of the worldwide impact of World War II by
• explaining economic and political causes, major
  events, and identifying leaders of the war with
  emphasis on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman,
  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George
  Marshall, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Adolf
  Hitler, Hideki Tojo, and Hirohito.
• Examining the Holocaust and other examples of
  genocide in the twentieth century.
• Explaining the terms of the peace, the war crimes
  trials, the division of Europe, plans to rebuild
  Germany and Japan, and the creation of the
  International cooperative organizations.

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Causes of the 2nd World War

• Failures of the Treaty of Versailles
• Reparations
• Nationalism
• Japan Germany
• Weakness of the League of Nations
• Economic Sanctions
• Aggression
• Japan Manchuria (1931)
• Italy Ethiopia (1935)
• Germany
• Rearming (1935)
• Remilitarizing (1936)
• Der Anschluss (1938)
• Isolationism Pacificism
• US Europe
• Appeasement
• Munich (1938)
• Neville Chamberlain

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The European Theater

• Nazi Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
• 8/23/1939
• Invasion of Poland
• 9/1/1939 9/28/1939
• The Fall of France
• 5/10/1940 6/22/1940
• Dunkirk
• Vichy France
• The Battle of Britain
• 8/40 9/40
• Luftwaffe
• Bombing of London
• Winston Churchill
• Operation Barbarossa
• 6/22/41 12/41
• The Growing Axis
• Waiting for Help

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Europe 1942
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The Pacific Theater

• Japanese Advances
• Manchuria gt China gt SE Asia
• Freedom from Imperialism
• Hideki Tojo Emperor Hirohito
• Bombing of Pearl Harbor
• 12/6/1941
• Isolationism?
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Island Hopping
• Douglas MacArthur

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The End of the War

• Searching for a 2nd Front
• The Soft Underbelly
• Africa gt Italy Southern France
• Tehran 11/43
• D-Day (Operation Overlord)
• 6/6/1944
• Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• The Fall of Berlin
• 4/1945 5/2/45
• A Change in Command
• Harry S. Truman
• The Pacific Theater
• Bombing Hiroshima Nagasaki
• 8/6 9/1945
• The Instrument of Surrender
• 9/2/1945

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The Holocaust

• Genocide
• What Happened?
• Mass Murder of gt6 mill people
• Who died?
• Jews
• Undesirables
• Why?
• Totalitarian Nationalism
• History of anti-Semitism
• Defeat of World War I and economic depression
  blamed on German Jews
• Hitlers belief in the master race
• How? The Final Solution
• Shooting, Extermination camps, gas chambers

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The Conquering Allies
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Rebuilding Europe

• Divided Europe
• The Iron Curtain
• Soviet Satellites
• Germany
• Allied Occupation
• East Communist
• West Democratic
• Post War Economic Boom
• War Crimes Trials
• Nuremberg
• The Marshall Plan (1947)
• NATO (1949) v. The Warsaw Pact (1955)

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NATO v. The Warsaw Pact
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Rebuilding the World

• Japan
• MacArthurs Administration
• Democracy Capitalism
• No Military US will Protect
• Dominant Japan
• No More Imperialism
• Self Determination
• The United Nations
• Replacing Improving the League
• The Aligned World (Super Powers)
• Soviet Communism
• American Capitalism

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Quiz Review People

• American President who decided to drop Atomic
  Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Emperor who over saw Japans rapid
  industrialization and shift to a militaristic
  dictatorship
• British Prime Minister who boosted morale to help
  Britain win the Battle of Britain
• Soviet dictator who collectivized farms and
  forced many to starve to death in the Ukraine.
• Dictator of Germany who lead the world into World
  War II.
• United States General, who was commander of the
  Allied forces for the D-Day invasion
• Fascist dictator of Italy
• American president throughout most of World War
  II and the Great Depression
• Japanese general who became Prime Minister and
  lead Japan to become a militaristic dictatorship.
• United States General who lead the Allied forces
  in the Pacific Theater and also directed the
  rebuilding of Japan.
• American General who devised a plan to pay for
  the rebuilding of Europe

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Quiz Review Events

• Place the following event in chronological order
  including dates of the events, and an explanation
  of the historical significance of the events.
• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
• Fall of France
• German invasion of the Soviet Union
• Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Battle of Britain
• German invasion of Poland
• D-Day (Allied invasion of Europe)

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Quiz Review Causes of WW II

• Name and explain the factors that led to the
  Second World War.
• What enabled the allies to win World War II?
• How did the events following World War II lead to
  a Cold War?
• Why did the Soviet Union establish satellite
  governments in Eastern Europe?
• How did the Allies promote the rebuilding of the
  defeated nations following World War II?
• Why do genocides occur?