WWII Review  Containment:  Limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet control  Anschluss:  Union of Austria and Germany engineered by Hitler  Island hopping:  US Marines attempting to recapture islands in Pacific from the Japanese

 Operation Barbarossa:  German/Nazi plan to take over the Soviet Union  Warsaw Pact:  Alliance among the Soviet Union and 7 satellite states in Eastern Europe  NATO:  Alliance among US, Canada and 9 western European nations.

Leading Up to War..  1935 – Italy invades Ethiopia  1936 – Axis Powers are formed between Germany, Italy and Japan  1937 – Japan invades Eastern China and expands its imperial power.  1938 – Germany annexes the nation of Austria, breaking WWI treaty terms.  1939 – Germany invades Poland, WWII begins!

The Axis Advances..  The siege of Leningrad caused the death of 1,000,000 Russians.  The German bombing on London was called the London blitz.  By 1942, the Japanese empire stretched from Southeast Asia to the Pacific Ocean.

The Allies Turn the Tide..  Nazi racism was mainly aimed at the Jewish religious group.  The slogan “Asia for Asians” aimed to help Asians escape imperial rule.  The Big Three: FDR, Churchill and Stalin.  After the US enters WWII many Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps.  D-Day occurred on June 6, 1944.

Victory in Europe and the Pacific  V-E Day stands for Victory in Europe.  The Bataan Death March cost the lives of over 10,000 Filipinos and Americans.  Kamikaze pilots used suicide missions to attack US ships.  The American President who decided to drop the a-bomb was Harry Truman.  August 6 th, 1945 – 1 st bomb dropped on Hiroshima.  August 8 th, 1945 – 2 nd bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

From World War to Cold War..  Five permanent nations of the United Nations (UN) include:  US  USSR/Russia  Britain  France and  China