WORLD WAR II

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WORLD WAR II

• 1939-1945

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OBJECTIVES

• Name four dictators who came to power before
  WWII.
• Identify the Allied powers and the Axis powers.
• Summarize why British and French appeasement and
  American isolationism failed to stop Fascist
  aggression.
• Describe the war in Europe and the war in
  Pacific.
• Define Holocaust and describe the result of the
  Final Solution.
• Identify political consequences of the Allied
  victory in postwar Europe.

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CAUSES

• Treaty of Versailles
• Debts from WWI
• Global and local economic depression
• Growth of dictatorship
• Rise of militarism
• Germanys invasion of Poland and Japanese attack
  on Pearl Harbor.

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The four dictators

• Angered by political and economic problems,
  people in Italy, Germany, Japan, and Spain turned
  to totalitarian leaders-Dictators.
• Franco, Mussolini, Tojo, and Hitler

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The War in Europe

• Before the official start of the war attack on
  Poland- Sep. 1st. 1939, Germany took Rhine land,
  Austria, and Sudeten Land in Czechoslovakia.
• Munich Conference-1938

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Two Alliances and the war in Europe

• Allies-Britain, France, United States, and Soviet
  Union
• Axis-Italy, Germany and Japan

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Axis powersin 1942
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The End of the war in Europe

• Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin agreed to divide
  Germany into four zones.

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American victory in Pacific-1945

• Atomic bombs were dropped on two cities in Japan
  to end the war in Pacific.

Nagasaki
Hiroshima
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The Holocaust

• Holocaust- The organized murder of all European
  Jews(Hitlers Final Solution)
• Genocide-Complete extermination of one ethnic
  group

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Final Solution

• The main orders were
• Concentrate the Jews in ghettos in the big
  cities.(Warsaw ghetto)
• Send all German Jews to Poland.

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Concentration Camps

• Not much will remain of the Jews. On the whole
  it can be said that about 60 per cent of them
  will have to be liquidated whereas only about 40
  per cent can be used for forced labor. Joseph
  Goebbels, 1942
• 6 million Jews were killed in concentration camps.

Auschwitz
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Concentration Camps
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• Crematory
• Gas chambers

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Effects

• Millions of deaths and widespread destruction in
  Europe and Asia
• The Holocaust
• U.S. emergence as a superpower