World War II 1933-1945

Washington Disarmament Conference Kellogg-Briand Pact

Worldwide Economic Depression

Failure of the Treaty of Versailles

Failure of the League of Nations

Japanese Imperialism Emperor Hirohito Hideki Tojo

1931- Japan Invades Manchuria

Rise of Totalitarianism

Fascism Benito Mussolini Adolph Hitler

National Socialist Germany Workers Party - NAZI Fascist… Nationalistic… Anti-Semitism…

Communism Joseph Stalin

1938 - Anschluss….

Munich Conference - 1938

Appeasment

1939 Czechoslovakia is annexed Hitler and Stalin sign a non-aggression pact…

September 1, 1939 – Germany attacks Poland

Blitzkrieg-

Maginot Line

Miracle at Dunkirk

Battle of Britain Royal Air Force vs. the Luftwaffe

London Blitz

Winston Churchill

Quarantine Speech - FDR

Four Freedoms

Atlantic Charter

Operation Barbarossa

American Isolationism vs. Interventionism

Pearl Harbor Sunday December 7,1941 7:55 am Fearing sabotage, the planes and ships were packed closely together. 19 ships destroyed 188 planes destroyed 2403 Americans dead, 1000 wounded

“We have awokened a sleeping giant and filled him with great resolve.” Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

“This is a day that will live in infamy” – FDR Congress declares war on Japan on December 8, 1941 Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S. on Dec. 11

The attack was both a success and a failure… U.S. Pacific fleet is crippled…but U.S. enters the war …. U.S. was an industrial giant (larger than the next six nations combined).

World War II Alliances Allied Powers Axis Powers United States Great Britain Soviet Union Axis Powers Germany Japan Italy

George C. Marshall

North Africa

Italy

Stalingrad- The Turning Point

Battle of the Bulge

April 12, 1945 FDR entering his fourth term as president dies of a brain hemorrhage… Harry Truman becomes president

April 30, 1945 As Soviet tanks roll overhead ….

May 8, 1945 VE Day

The Holocaust

Hitler’s “Final Solution”

The Home Front

Rosie the Riveter

TOTAL WAR

Rationing

Victory Gardens

War Bonds

Bracero Program

The Great Migration Continues

African Americans & the War Effort Double “V” Campaign

Japanese Internment Camps

WWII and Tennessee Manhattan Project Oak Ridge

WWII and Tennessee Fort Campbell

Bataan Death March

Battle of Midway – The Turning Point in the Pacific

Island Hopping General Douglas MacArthur had claimed “I Shall Return” to the Phillipines…

Iwo Jima

Okinawa

Manhattan Project

September 2, 1945 VJ Day – The Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri

Cordell Hull “Father of the United Nations”