1. World War Pt 2
(World War II)

2. Similarities between Parts I and II
Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary vs. Britain, France, Russia, USA, Italy (switched sides in the middle)
Causes:
M-Militarism
A-Alliances
I-Imperialism
N-Nationalism
New Forms of War, Total War
Germany, Italy and Japan vs. Britain, France, Russia, USA, Italy (switched sides in the middle, again)
Causes:
Almost exactly the same
New Forms of War, Total War

3. From the End of Part I to the Beginning of Part II
The Treaty of Versailles
War Guilt Clause
Reparations
Hyper Inflation
Great Depression
Diligence of Western Powers

4. Germany Is Winning Sequence in Europe: Hitler comes to power 1933
Germany remilitarizes
Germany occupies
the Rhineland 1936
Austria Mar. 1938
The Sudentenland Oct. 1938
Czechoslovakia Mar. 1939
Spanish Civil War
Mussolini and Italians invade Ethiopia 1937
Non-Aggression Pact 1939
War Starts September 1, 1939
Germany invades:
Poland Sep. 1, 1939
Denmark, Norway Apr. 1940
France, Holland, Belgium, Lux. May 1940
Battle of Britain
Germany invades/occupies:
Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary join 1941
British in North Africa attacked 1941
Greece, Yugoslavia invaded Apr. 1941
Russia May 1941
Germany Is Winning

5. The Rhineland Anschluss The Sudetenland The Rest of Czech. 1936
March 1938
The Sudetenland
The Rest of Czech.
October 1938
March 1939

6. Spanish Civil War
Guernica
by Pablo Picasso
Francisco Franco

7. War Starts Invasion of Poland Sep. 1, 1939
Britain, France, Allies declare war
Soviet Union invades Poland
two weeks later
No one declares war on Soviet Union

8. Remember the Schlieffen
Germany conquers the West first
Denmark & Norway
Belgium, France, the Netherlands
Doesn’t defeat Britain
Germany attacks the East
Soviet Union joins Allies
Two-Front War!

9. German High Water Mark

10. Japan Is Winning Sequence in Asia: Japan militarizes Japan invades:
Manchuria ‘31
China ‘37
Japanese problems with America
Japan joins Axis Powers 1940
Japan declares war on Britain and France
Singapore
Indo-China
New Guinea
Indonesia
Pearl Harbor
the Philippines
Guam
US, British, French Territories
Japan Is Winning

11. Manchuria (Manchukuo) China Attacks the US Joins the War
1931
Rape of Nanking
China
1937
Attacks the US
1941
Joins the War
Against the Allies
1940

12. Japan’s High
Water Mark

13. The Tide Turns The US joins Battles Pearl Harbor ‘41
Stalingrad ‘42-’43
El Alamein ‘42
Midway ‘42
Battle of the Atlantic ’40-44
Guadalcanal ‘42-’43
D-Day ‘44

14. Politics
Stalin wants second front
Yalta Conference
Cold War
Strategies
Europe First
Island Hopping
Complete Surrender
Total War
Resistance
Bataan Death March
Holocaust (We’ll talk more later)
Firebombing
A-Bomb