WWII Review
Life in a Totalitarian State (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy & Soviet Union) Government Controls Human Rights Mass Censorship Mass Arrests Secret Police One Party System Booming Economy (Not in Great Depression) Restoring Lost Glory
Causes of WWII Treaty of Versailles Rise of Fascism & Nazism Appeasement- Sudetenland & Munich Agreement Fascist Aggression (Italian occupation of Ethiopia) Non-Aggression Pact- Germany does not have to fight a two-front war
Alliances Allies Axis United States Great Britain Soviet Union France Italy Germany Japan Italy
World War II Operation Barbarossa (German Invasion of Soviet Union) -Eventual loss due to Climate & Geography December 7,1941 Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor -US enters War Main Turning Points of WWII Entry of US Battles of Stalingrad & Midway Cracking of Japanese & German Codes
Yalta Conference Big Three (Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill) Decisions Divide Germany Soviets taking eastern Europe Set Up United Nations
The Holocaust (Final Solution) Deliberate murder of six million Jews Carried out by Nazi Germany Planned in great detail & required cooperation of a lot of people SS, led by Himmler, Heydrich & Eichmann, will be in charge of Holocaust Led to the formation of Israel after the WWII. Leaders of Holocaust tried at Nuremburg Trials (Charged with “Crimes Against Humanity”
The End of the War VE Day (Victory in Europe) May 1945. Fall of Berlin VJ Day (Victory over Japan) September 1945 Dropping of Atomic Bombs Hiroshima Nagasaki -Emperor becomes a Constitutional Monarch (No Longer Divine) -Japan becomes a representative democracy
Post-War Programs United Nations Marshall Plan Goal is to maintain global peace, promote trade & protect human rights Security Council -Most important- Job is to maintain international peace & security - 5 Permanent members: US, Russia, Great Britain, China & France US Plan that gave massive aid to western Europe to rebuild after WWII. Goal is to stabilize economies & governments so they will not fall to communism
Major Impacts of WWII US & USSR are now Superpowers Europe is divided between two sides Cold War Japan becomes a Constitutional Monarchy US rebuilds & reindustrializes Western Europe & Japan US no longer in Isolationism