World War II

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World War II
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What Happened?

• Economic and Political conditions in Europe after
  World War I led to fascism and World War II
• Fascism power is given to a dictator and
  individual freedoms are denied.
• Spread of communism threatened peace in Europe
  and Asia

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Dictators

• Adolf Hitler Germany
• Benito Mussolini Italy
• Hideki Tojo Japan

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World War One caused

• Political instability
• Economic devastation
• Great Depression
• High war debt by Germany
• High inflation rates
• Unemployment

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Axis Powers

• Germany - Adolf Hitler
• Japan - Hirohito
• Italy - Mussolini

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Allies

• Great Britain
• France (Winston Churchill)
• Russia (Joseph Stalin)

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Conquering the World

• Axis Powers conquered smaller nations.
• Allied powers warn to not invade Poland. Germany
  invades Poland.
• Germany conquered most of Europe with the
  exception of Great Britain and Russia.

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What is the US doing?

• Remained neutral during the beginning of the war.
• 1941 Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act which
  allowed President Roosevelt to lend weapons,
  supplies, and equipment to any country whose
  defense was critical to US security.
• US hoped to help the Allies win the war without
  sending in troops
• Program gave over 50 billion in supplies

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What is the US doing?

• 1941 US establishes bases on Greenland and
  Iceland to protect ships from German submarine
  attacks
• Japan starts invading near by nations and starts
  looking at land in the US
• Ration books are given to us families that cant
  afford food

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ATTACKS

• Italy attacked North Africa
• Japan attacked the Pacific area of the USA
  (Honolulu, Hawaii)

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• DECEMBER 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor receives a surprise
  attack conducted by the Japanese. Over 2,400
  U.S. servicemen lost their lives
• The United States declares war the next day.

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Georgia and World War II

• Manufacturing Plant Bell Aircraft in Marietta
  makes B-29 bombers
• Shipyards in Savannah and Brunswick Liberty
  ships are built here
• Military bases Richard Russell and Carl Vinson
  help to create military bases in Georgia

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Georgia and World War II

• Texas was the only state to have more military
  bases
• Fort Benning
• Robins Air Service Command
• Fort Gordon
• Hunter Air Field

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Tuskegee Air Men

• America's first black military airmen
• Had thousands of successful missions in North
  Africa and Italy

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Holocaust

• 6 million Jews are murdered by Germany
• Directed by Adolf Hitler because of Anti-Semitism
• Jews were sent to extermination camps bodies
  were burned in huge ovens and killed with
  posioned gas

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Georgia and the Holocaust

• Governor Joe Frank Harris established the Georgia
  Commission on the Holocaust.
• Goal is to teach about the Holocaust and the
  danger prejudice can cause
• Spread awareness by coming to schools, making
  educational materials, setting up at museums.

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June 6, 1944 AKA D-Day

• Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy,
  France by early1945 troops had pushed the
  German army out of France!

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V-E Day

• May 8, 1945
• Day celebrated for the ending of World War II
• Germany surrenders

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The Yalta Conference

• Germany would be divided into four zones

• Britain, Russia, France U.S. would each occupy
  govern a zone

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Japan refused to surrender

• August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb
  on Hiroshima.
• Japan still refused to surrender.
• August 9, 1945 A second atomic bomb was dropped
  on Nagasaki

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V-J Day

• August 14, 1945
• Day celebrated for Japan surrendering and leaving
  the war