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Title: World War II


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World War II
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Man of Steel
  • Goal worldwide spread of communism
  • Great Purge 8-13 million executed or banished to
    Siberia
  • Totalitarian total control over citizens

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Il Duce- The Chief
  • Fascism strong central govt

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Fuhrer-Leader
  • Nazism extreme racism expansionism and
    nationalism
  • Aryans the master race that needs to be served
    by inferior races

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Hirohito and Tojomore living space
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U.S. wants to remain NEUTRAL!
  • Neutrality Acts outlawed weapon sales to nations
    at war AND at civil war (Spain was in a civil
    war)
  • Spanish Civil War Spain becomes fascist
  • Japan invades China.we supply China with weapons
    because it was not an official war

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1937
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War Begins
  • Germany signs alliance with Italy
  • Hitler begins to build up military
  • Signs non-aggression pact with Russia

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September 1, 1939
  • Germany invades Poland- WHY?
  • France and GB declare war on Germany but do not
    do anything to back it up
  • Denmark and Norway fall April, 1940

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France falls June 17, 1940 -British/ French
retreat at Dunkirk
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Battle of Britain
  • Luftwaffe German Air Force
  • RAF Royal Air Force
  • 2 months of heavy bombingpeople hid in the
    subways
  • British able to win because of radar

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St. Pauls Cathedral
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Over 500,000 children were evacuated from British
cities to the countryside
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Holocaust
  • Why were the Jews targeted?
  • Germany encouraged Jews to move to other
    countries
  • Nuremberg Laws- yellow Star of David required on
    clothing

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The Final Solution- Genocide
  • Jews could not move fast enough
  • Nazis set up concentration/ labor camps
  • Death camps were created in 1941
  • 6,000 could be killed daily
  • Who else was targeted?
  • Gypsies, communists, etc

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Effects of the genocide
  • As the German army took over more ground, those
    people were shipped off and German families moved
    into their homes
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