World War Two

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World War Two
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German Offensive Begins

• Nonaggression pact-
• Terms
• Blitzkrieg in Poland (1939) WW2 begins-

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France Falls

• By 1940, France fell to Germany.
• After France fell, Charles de Gaulle set up exile
  government in London.

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Annexation of Germany 1938-41

• Austria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Latvia,
  Lithuania, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg,
  France
• Italy enters the war after the fall of France in
  1940.

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The Battle of Britain

• Royal Air Force
• Two months of bombing
• How did British
• withstand German attack?

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Hitler Invades the Soviet Union

• 1941, Operation Barbarossa
• Result

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The United States Aids Its Allies

• 1935-1937 Congress passed the Neutrality Acts-
• Arguments for and against neutrality
• Cash and carry- 1939
• Lend and Lease- 1939

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German Wolf Packs
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Japans Pacific Campaign

• Hideki Tojo, launched an invasion into China
  (1937)
• Advancement to U.S. territories-
• Japan took over military bases in Indochina
  (French territories).
• Result?

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Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Peace talks went on for a month. However, U.S.
  military broke Japans communication and learned
  about a future attack.
• December 7, 1941, 180 Japanese warplanes,
  including kamikaze pilots attacked Pearl Harbor,
  Hawaii

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Reaction to Pearl Harbor

• _____ soldiers were killed, 1178 injured. Almost
  the entire Pacific fleet was destroyed.
• Roosevelt declares war

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Japanese Advances

• Much more territory than Germany (by far).
  Included Hong Kong, French Indochina, Malaya,
  Dutch East Indies, Guam, Wake Island, the Solomon
  Islands, two islands in Alaska.

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Battle of Bataan

• Japan took the Bataan Peninsula in the
  Philippines in 1942
• The Japanese were very brutal to Allied prisoners
  of war. Why?

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Battle of Midway

• 1942 Was a turning point in the Pacific War.
  Island hoping, moving closer and closer to Japan.

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The Holocaust

• In 1933 Hitler ordered the removal of all non
  Aryans.
• Nuremberg Laws-

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Kristallnacht

• Nazis blamed Jews for destruction
• Herschel Grynszpan shoots Vom Rath

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A Flood of Jewish Refugees

• We all want to get rid or our Jews. The
  difficulty is that no country wishes to receive
  them.
• France, England, U.S.
• Plight of the St. Louis
• Final Solution
• Genocide-

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The Condemned

• Communists, socialists, liberals, gypsies,
  freemasons, Jehovahs Witnesses, homosexuals,
  mentally deficient, disabled, and incurably ill.
• Ghettos-

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Concentration Camps

• Originally set up for political opponents. Here
  non Aryans worked as slaves until they were
  killed.

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The Final Stage

• Gas chambers
• Separated, some used for medical experiments in
  order to test disease and sterilization.
• An estimated ____ million were murdered during
  the Holocaust, ___ million Jewish.

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The Allied Victory

• Strategy of Allied Powers
• 1.
• 2.
• The North Campaign
• Operation Torch (1943)

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• Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
• Germany controlled 90 of the city, until
  _______.
• Result

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• The Invasion of Italy (1943)
• Allied forced captured Sicily from Italy and
  Germany.
• Italy turns on Mussolini

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The Allied Home Fronts

• Conversion of peacetime operations to war
• 1. ___ million new jobs
• 2. bonds
• 3. rationing
• 4. lower speed limit

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War Limits Civil Rights

• Segregation in military
• All non whites were segregated. African Americans
  could not fight until the end of the war.
• Asa Philip Randolph v. Franklin Roosevelt

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• Internment Camps
• Over ________ Japanese Americans held from 1942
  until the end of war.

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Victory in Europe

• D-Day June 6th 1944 the invasion by the Allies
  on Germany controlled Normandy, France. 7 days of
  fighting resulted in the liberation of
  ________________

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Battle of the Bulge

• October 1944, between Germany and
  American/British troops in Belgium. It was a
  German offensive battle, lasting a month. Result?

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Unconditional Surrender

• By April 25. 1945 the Soviet army controlled
  Berlin. Any retreating German soldier was shot
  or hanged.
• Hitler and wife, Eva committed suicide in and
  underground bunker in Berlin, four days later.
• V-E day- (May 8, 1945)

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• The Japanese Surrender
• August 6th 1945, President Truman ordered the
  atomic bomb to be dropped on __________, 3 days
  later a second was dropped on ________.