1. WWII REVIEW

2. CAUSES OF WWII TREATY OF VERSAILLES
France-Germany not punished harsh enough
Italy-felt ignored in treaty
Germany-Humiliated
Democratic Gov. est. Weimar
RISE OF FASCISM-Glory of State – total control
Italy – Mussolini
Germany – Hitler
Spain – Franco
Soviet Union – Stalin
Japan – Hideki Tojo
APPEASEMENT
Italy-Ethiopia-Rommel-Desert Fox
Japan – Manchuria
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Chamberlain-Gr. Britain “achieves peace for our time”
Rhineland
Austria
Sudetenland-Munich Pact allowed this
ISOLATIONISM
FDR-Quarantine Speech
Neutrality Act-No arms sold to countries at war
Cash-and-carry-Buy from US in cash & came to US ports to transport
Lend Lease Act-US to send weapons to Britain-don’t have to pay
Atlantic Charter-US & Britain oppose Hitler together – WORK FOR PEACE

3. THE HOLOCAUST – Killing of 6 million Jews
HITLER-Blames Jews for Germany’s problems
Aryan Race – Perfect Race
Anti-Semitism-Prejudice against Jews
Nuremberg Laws-Strips Jews of German citizenship, civil & economic rights
ATTACKS ON JEWS:
Kristallnacht – “Night of Broken Glass” - Goebbels
Concentration Camps and Ghettos
WANNSEE CONFERENCE
Final Solution-Extermination Camps
GENOCIDE-Deliberate killing of a race with purpose to exterminate the particular ethnic group

4. HITLER AND START OF WWII
Chamberlain – APPEASEMENT-gives in to Ger.
Ger. Sends troops into Rhineland, Austria, Czech.
Churchill–Opposes appeasement
Reichstag Law-enables Hitler to establish one-party Nazi State-acts without consent of Ger. Gov.
Nazi-Soviet Pact-Hitler & Stalin agree not to fight each other if the other went to war
Hitler invades Poland
Allies (Br. & Fr) declare War on Germany
Axis Powers – Germany, Italy, Japan

5. U.S. PREPARES FOR WAR
PEARL HARBOR – FDR “A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”
Selective Service Act
Women’s Role – Rosie the Riveter
Rationing
National War Labor Board-to avert strikes-not hinder war effort
MANHATTAN PROJECT – OPPENHEIMER-ATOMIC BOMB
INTERNMENT CAMPS –Executive order 9066-Japanese forced to leave military zones (West. U.S)

6. U.S. IN WWII- PACIFIC PACIFIC – MacArthur – “I shall return”
Bataan Death March – Philippines
Doolittle's Raid – Tokyo & other cities
Midway – Land, air and sea
Guadalcanal – Solomon Islands
Battle of Iwo Jima – Mount Suribachi
Okinawa – Caves & tunnels
Island Hopping
Atomic Bomb – Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Truman
Leyete Gulf – 1944 – Philippine Islands
Elbe River- U.S. & Russians cut Ger. Army in two
Battle of the Bulge

7. THE U.S. IN EUROPE
1944 – YALTA CONFERENCE –ROOSEVELT, STALIN, CHURCHILL- Dealing with Germany and Europe after the War
D-Day – Allies invade beaches in Normandy France
Battle of the Bulge – Final Offensive of German against the allies in the Ardennes
Hitler commits suicide
V-E Day –Victory in Europe
U N created to prevent future wars
Potsdam Conference – Truman,Stalin,Churchill
Nuremburg Trials