World History Chapter 20- World War II Section 3- A Global Conflict

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World HistoryChapter 20- World War II Section
3- A Global Conflict
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• Invasion of Soviet Union
• Operation Barbarossa Jun 22, 1941
• Hitler sought living space, wheat and oil in
  Soviet Steppe region.
• Stalin taken by surprise
• Destroyed air force
• Disabled tanks
• Captured ½ million soldiers
• Stalin ordered scorched earth policy.
• Germans captured Kiev, attacked Moscow Dec 2,
  1941.
• Soviets stage a counterattack.

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• Nazi Order
• Nazis would rule Europe
• Exploit Europes resources
• Enslave conquered people
• Eliminate undesirables

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• The Holocaust
• Complete extermination of all Jews in Europe (6
  million killed).
• Also murdered 6 million Gypsies and Slavs.
• Nazis persecuted Jews in the lands they occupied.
• Poland
• Soviet Union

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• The Holocaust cont
• Jews forced into ghettoes then concentration
  camps.
• Killing squads
• Began in June 1941 in Soviet Union
• Jews shot and buried in mass graves.

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• The Holocaust cont
• Final Solution
• Nazi code word for destruction of all Jews-
  genocide.
• Death camps (Auschwitz) developed to kill Jews by
• Gas chambers
• Starvation
• Experimentation
• Resistance and response was ineffective in
  dealing with Nazis.

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• Japanese Expansion
• Acquired European colonies in East and Southeast
  Asia.
• Signed Tripartite with Italy Germany in 1940.
• Agreed every nation should receive the space they
  need.
• Pledged to cooperate with each other.
• Roosevelt placed an embargo on oil froze
  Japanese assets.
• Japan bombs Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941.
• USA stood in way of Japanese expansion.
• Planned to destroy U.S. Pacific Fleet.

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• Allies
• Dec 11, 1941 Germany Italy in support of
  Japan, declare war on USA.
• Great Britain, backing USA, declares war on
  Japan.
• Stalin wanted Great Britain USA to open a
  second front in Europe.
• Instead, they made plans to invade North Africa.