World War II

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World War II

• Allied Powers

• Axis Powers

• Great Britain
• France
• USSR (Soviet Union)
• United States

• Germany
• Italy
• Japan

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Hitler establishes the Third Reich and announces
his intent to rearm Germany
1933
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Hitler establishes the Third Reich and announces
his intent to rearm Germany
1933

1. Hitler invades the Rhineland (territory lost in
   the Treaty of Versailles)
2. Japan, Germany, and Italy form the Axis powers

1936
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Hitler establishes the Third Reich and announces
his intent to rearm Germany
1933

1. Hitler invades the Rhineland (territory lost in
   the Treaty of Versailles)
2. Japan, Germany, and Italy form the Axis powers

1936

1. Hitler invades Austria (Anschluss)
2. Munich Conference (Britain, France, Germany, and
   Italy meet to discuss aggression)
3. Hitler is granted the Sudetenland

1938
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Hitler establishes the Third Reich and announces
his intent to rearm Germany
1933

1. Hitler invades the Rhineland (territory lost in
   the Treaty of Versailles)
2. Japan, Germany, and Italy form the Axis powers

1936

1. Hitler invades Austria
2. Munich Conference (Britain, France, Germany, and
   Italy meet to discuss aggression)
3. Hitler is granted the Sudetenland

1938

1. Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
2. Germany and USSR sign a Nonagression Pact (agree
   not to invade each other and to split control of
   Poland)
3. Hitler invades Poland using Blitzkrieg
   (lightning war) officially begins World War
   II

1939
1940
Hitler takes France Battle of Britain Fails
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1941
Hitler invades Soviet Union
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1941
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters war.
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1941
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
1942
Allied forces attack Japan at Guadalcanal
American victory at Midway a turning point
Japan
Hawaii (Pearl Harbor)
Guadalcanal
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Allies in Africa(Operation Torch)

• Allied victory at El-Alamein in North Africa
• Provides foothold from which to attack Italy
• Italy surrenders butGermany

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Island Hopping in the Pacific

• Douglas MacArthur (Pacific Allied commander)
• island hop skip past Japanese strongholds
  attack only islands that were not well-defended
  but were closer to Japan

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• Allied forces retake the Philippines
• MacArthur I shall return

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German forces are defeated in Russia at the city
of Stalingrad (combination of Russian troops
winter)
1943
Allied forces attack German-occupied France at
the Beach of Normandy (D-Day)
1944
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1945 - The End of the War

• Mussolini is shot and dragged through the streets
  of Italy. His body is hung in Milan for public
  viewing.

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1945 - The End of the War

• Battle of the Bulge Germanys last attempt
• Hitler commits suicide and Germany surrenders to
  the Allies.

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1945 - The End of the War

• Battle of Okinawa gives US launching point for
  attack
• US drops the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and
  Nagasaki in Japan. 150,000 people are instantly
  killed. Thousands more die from burns and
  radiation. Japan surrenders.

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The Holocaust

• Nazi ideology and policies
• Germanic peoples were a master race
• Non-Germanic peoples were inferior
• Nuremberg Laws (1935) deprived Jews of German
  citizenship, outlawed mixed marriages, limited
  the kinds of work Jews could perform
• Jews were moved into segregated areas called
  ghettos

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The Holocaust
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The Holocaust
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The Holocaust

• Hitlers Final Solution
• The systematic killing of an entire people
• Killing squads
• Concentration camps (forced labor, extreme
  brutality, poor living conditions)
• Gas chambers

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• November 1938 Kristallnacht (Night of the
  Broken Glass) Jewish businesses and synagogues
  are destroyed. Jews killed, beaten and arrested
• 1939 Jewish Ghettos established in occupied
  Eastern Europe. Jews are forced to leave their
  homes and live in ghettos.
• March 1941 - Jews ordered into forced labor
  concentration camps

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The Holocaust
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• 1942
• Wannsee Conference
• Meeting of 15 top Nazi officials to find the
  Final Solution to the Jewish Question
• The group decided on extermination of the entire
  Jewish population of Europe
• 1942- 45
• Death Camps built to eliminate the undesirable
  populations
• Ghettos were liquidated, all inhabitants sent to
  death camps

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11 million people died in German death camps 6
million Jews (2/3rds of all European Jews)