WORLD WAR II SOLs USII.6A-C

CAUSES OF WWII Political instability & economic devastation USII.6A Political instability & economic devastation Depression High war debt owed by Germany High inflation Massive unemployment Rise of Fascism Fascism = “total power is given to a dictator” Germany – Adolf Hitler Italy – Benito Mussolini Japan – Hideki Tojo *Became the Axis Powers (Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis)

Rise of Hitler Nazi Party organized, 1920s Nazi party largest in Germany, 1932 Hitler voted as chancellor, 1933 New parliament created 450, 000 members Larger than German army

THE HOLOCAUST Anti-Semitism Aryan supremacy Rid Europe of all Jews USII.6B Anti-Semitism Aryan supremacy Rid Europe of all Jews Tactics Boycott of Jewish stores Threats Segregation Imprisonment and killing (concentration camps) Liberation by Allied forces

THE ALLIES GREAT BRITAIN UNITED STATES CANADA SOVIET UNION USII.6A Winston Churchill UNITED STATES Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman CANADA SOVIET UNION Joseph Stalin

CHANGE IN AMERICAN POLICY USII.6A CHANGE IN AMERICAN POLICY ISOLATIONISM Legacy of WWI Great Depression ECONOMIC AID TO THE ALLIES DIRECT INVOLVEMENT IN THE WAR

MAJOR EVENTS OF WWII September 1, 1939 – Germany invades Poland USII.6B MAJOR EVENTS OF WWII September 1, 1939 – Germany invades Poland Germany invades France (captures Paris) Battle of Britain begins (bombing London) US aids Britain in return for bases Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, HI Germany declares war on US US declares war on Germany & Japan Battle of Midway – turning point against Japan Germany invades Soviet Union Battle of Stalingrad (turning point in Europe) D-Day (Doomsday) – invasion of Normandy Atomic Bombs dropped: Hiroshima & Nagasaki Japan surrenders (V-J Day)

WAR IN THE PACIFIC Japanese aggression in the East (China) USII.6A Japanese aggression in the East (China) December 7, 1941 – Pearl Harbor U.S. attacked without warning U.S. declared war on Japan Germany declared war on the United States

Pearl Harbor is attacked on Dec. 7, 1941

U. S. Involved In War

D-Day June 6, 1944 - Landing on Normandy Beach

Normandy Invasion, D-Day June 6, 1944

Allies United: U.S.S.R, England and The U.S. Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, & Winston Churchill

EFFECTS OF WWII End to the Great Depression (war boom) USII.6C End to the Great Depression (war boom) Women took jobs (Rosie the Riveter) Conservation and Rationing of goods Racial barriers broken down (temporarily) Japanese Americans put in internment camps