1. 6:27 World War II

2. Causes of World War II (1939-1945)
Second Sino-Japanese War ( )
Chinese communists and nationalists unite
Nanjing Massacre (1937)—leads to US sanctions on Japan, 300k casualties, 40k deaths
Japan est. “New Order in East Asia”

3. Causes of World War II (1939-1945)
Hitler violates Treaty of Versailles
Third Reich—Hitler’s German empire
militarization and lebensraum
British and French appeasement  invasion of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland (1939)

4. Belligerents Axis Powers—Germany, Japan, Italy
blitzkrieg—lightning war
war of attrition—strategy to wear out an enemy through relentless violence
Allied Powers—Britain, France, Russia, China, US
Lend-Lease Agreement (1941)— US loans war materials to Britain

5. Major Battles Germany takes France immediately, never Britain or USSR
Vichy Regime ( )—German rule over France
Battle of Britain (1940)—German air raids on Britain, failed
Battle of Leningrad (1940)—three year siege of Leningrad, failed
Pearl Harbor (1942)—Japan bombs Hawaii, US joins WWII

6. Major Battles War turns against the Axis Powers
Battle of El Alamein (1942)—German Gen. Erwin Rommel (aka Desert Fox) defeated by the British in N. Africa
Battle of Midway Island (1943)—Allies sink Japanese aircraft carriers in the Pacific
island hopping—US General Douglas MacArthur’s strategy to win in the Pacific

7. Major Battles
Invasion of Normandy, aka “D-Day” (1944)—Allies invade northern France, take back Paris
Battle of the Bulge (1944)—final German defeat
Mussolini killed by rebels, Hitler suicide (1945)
US atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)

9. Outcomes of WWII
WWII the deadliest event in human history
casualties: +100M
fatalities: 20M military, 40M civilians
Holocaust: 6M Jews, 5M others
Germany and Austria divided into eastern and western “blocs”
Nuremburg Trials ( )—Nazi leaders placed on trial for war crimes
Partition of Palestine  Israel  Arab-Israeli conflict

11. Outcomes of WWII
The Big Three—Winston Churchill (England), Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry Truman (US), Joseph Stalin (USSR)
Yalta Conference (Feb. 1945)—no solution over what to do with Germany, USSR wants it, creation of United Nations
Potsdam Conference (July 1945)— no agreement on Germany, now occupied by USSR, start of the Cold War