1. WORLD WAR II

2. OBJECTIVES Name four dictators who came to power before WWII.
Identify the Allied powers and the Axis powers.
Summarize why British and French appeasement and American isolationism failed to stop Fascist aggression.
Describe the war in Europe and the war in Pacific.
Define Holocaust and describe the result of the “Final Solution”.
Identify political consequences of the Allied victory in postwar Europe.

3. CAUSES Treaty of Versailles Debts from WWI
Global and local economic depression
Growth of dictatorship
Rise of militarism
Germany’s invasion of Poland and Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

4. The four dictators
Angered by political and economic problems, people in Italy, Germany, Japan, and Spain turned to totalitarian leaders-Dictators.
Franco, Mussolini, Tojo, and Hitler

5. The War in Europe
Before the official start of the war attack on Poland- Sep. 1st. 1939, Germany took Rhine land, Austria, and Sudeten Land in Czechoslovakia.
Munich Conference-1938

6. Two Alliances and the war in Europe
Allies-Britain, France, United States, and Soviet Union
Axis-Italy, Germany and Japan

7. Axis powers in 1942

9. The End of the war in Europe
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin agreed to divide Germany into four zones.

10. American victory in Pacific-1945
Atomic bombs were dropped on two cities in Japan to end the war in Pacific.
Nagasaki
Hiroshima

11. The Holocaust
Holocaust- The organized murder of all European Jews(Hitler’s “Final Solution”)
Genocide-Complete extermination of one ethnic group

12. “Final Solution” The main orders were:
Concentrate the Jews in ghettos in the big cities.(Warsaw ghetto)
Send all German Jews to Poland.

13. Concentration Camps
“Not much will remain of the Jews. On the whole it can be said that about 60 per cent of them will have to be liquidated whereas only about 40 per cent can be used for forced labor. “ Joseph Goebbels, 1942
6 million Jews were killed in concentration camps.
Auschwitz

14. Concentration Camps

15. Crematory
Gas chambers

16. Effects
Millions of deaths and widespread destruction in Europe and Asia
The Holocaust
U.S. emergence as a superpower