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6:27 World War II

Causes of World War II (1939-1945) Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) Chinese communists and nationalists unite Nanjing Massacre (1937)—leads to US sanctions on Japan, 300k casualties, 40k deaths Japan est. “New Order in East Asia”

Causes of World War II (1939-1945) Hitler violates Treaty of Versailles Third Reich—Hitler’s German empire militarization and lebensraum British and French appeasement  invasion of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland (1939)

Belligerents Axis Powers—Germany, Japan, Italy blitzkrieg—lightning war war of attrition—strategy to wear out an enemy through relentless violence Allied Powers—Britain, France, Russia, China, US Lend-Lease Agreement (1941)— US loans war materials to Britain http://www.english-online.at/history/world-war-2/causes-of-world-war-2.htm

Major Battles Germany takes France immediately, never Britain or USSR Vichy Regime (1940-1945)—German rule over France Battle of Britain (1940)—German air raids on Britain, failed Battle of Leningrad (1940)—three year siege of Leningrad, failed Pearl Harbor (1942)—Japan bombs Hawaii, US joins WWII

Major Battles War turns against the Axis Powers Battle of El Alamein (1942)—German Gen. Erwin Rommel (aka Desert Fox) defeated by the British in N. Africa Battle of Midway Island (1943)—Allies sink Japanese aircraft carriers in the Pacific island hopping—US General Douglas MacArthur’s strategy to win in the Pacific

Major Battles Invasion of Normandy, aka “D-Day” (1944)—Allies invade northern France, take back Paris Battle of the Bulge (1944)—final German defeat Mussolini killed by rebels, Hitler suicide (1945) US atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)

Outcomes of WWII WWII the deadliest event in human history casualties: +100M fatalities: 20M military, 40M civilians Holocaust: 6M Jews, 5M others Germany and Austria divided into eastern and western “blocs” Nuremburg Trials (1945-1946)—Nazi leaders placed on trial for war crimes Partition of Palestine  Israel  Arab-Israeli conflict

Outcomes of WWII The Big Three—Winston Churchill (England), Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry Truman (US), Joseph Stalin (USSR) Yalta Conference (Feb. 1945)—no solution over what to do with Germany, USSR wants it, creation of United Nations Potsdam Conference (July 1945)— no agreement on Germany, now occupied by USSR, start of the Cold War