1. WWII - Introduction: Most devastating war in human history
55 million dead
1 trillion dollars
Began in 1939 as strictly a European Conflict
Widened to include most of the world

2. Remember: Celebration Time
Cheering the end of world war I, on Nov. 11, 1918.
The long, horrible war had taken the lives of nearly 10 million soldiers.

3. Germany After WWI

6. Third Reich Nationalist imperialism Continental empire Autarky
Elimination of non-Germans
Elimination of enemies

7. The Empire of Japan Anti-imperialist imperialism Autarky Security
Expanding buffer zones
Anti-imperialist imperialism
Nationalist destiny
“Asia for the Asians”

8. How It Began Lots of factors WWI leftovers Outside factors…
Germany defeated in and had to pay cost of war. In huge economic depression
Italy victorious but wanted more territory
Japan victorious but wanted China
Outside factors…

9. What Were These Outside Factors?
Germany reduced size
Organized League of Nations
French and Britain unsure
U.S. isolationist

10. Fascism in Europe Mussolini - “Il Duce”: 1922
Invasion of Ethiopia
Hitler - “Fuhrer”: Chancellor of Germany
Nazi Third Reich replaces Weimar Republic.
Promise of German economic recovery.
Beginnings of the Holocaust.
German rearmament begins.
Spanish Civil War ’s
Generalissimo Francisco Franco supported by fascists.
Agreement permits Germany to rebuild Navy
Remilitarization of the Rhineland
German rejection of the Treaty of Versailles.

11. 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

12. Adolf Hitler
“Fuhrer”

14. Hitler Gets Busy Gestapo Created -- April, 1933
Jewish Boycott – April, 1933
Jewish Books Banned & Burned – May, 1933
27,000 People in Camps – July, 1933
60,000 People in Camps – 1938
Illegal to Leave Germany – October, 1941

16. German Territorial Gains
Austria – March, 1938
Border of Czechoslovakia – Sept., 1938
All of Czechoslovakia – March, 1939
Poland – Sept., 1939
By Summer of 1940, Germany Controlled Most of Europe
World shocked as France falls to Germans

17. Beginnings of War in Europe
German annexation of Austria (Anschluss) - March 1938.
Munich Crisis - September 1938.
Czechoslovakia’s German-speaking Sudetenland.
Appeasement of Hitler by Western leaders.
British Prime Minister Chamberlain: “Peace in our time.”
German occupation of Czechoslovakia - March 1939.
Italian occupation of Albania - April 1939.
Guarantee of protection of Poland: Britain and France.
March (Also Holland and Belgium.)
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - August 1939
Non-aggression treaty between Soviet Union and Germany.

18. Start of World War II Germany's dictator, Adolf Hitler, had built Germany into a powerful war machine.
World War II began on Sept. 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland.

19. War in Europe Invasion of Poland: Blitzkrieg - September 1939
Tanks and Stuka dive bombers.
Soviet occupation of eastern Poland..
May Invasion of Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
Maginot Line proves ineffective to maneuver warfare.
Chamberlain yields office of Prime Minister to Churchill
Battle of Britain - Summer 1940.
Operation Sea Lion - planned German invasion of England.
Soviet annexation of Baltic States: June 1940.
Soviet invasion of Finland - November 1940.
German invasion of Soviet Union - June 1941.
Operation Barbarossa

20. Germany Allies Stalin and the Soviet Union, 1939
Betrayed by 1941
Mussolini and Italy, 1939
Off and on betrayed until Italian defeat in 1943

21. Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan formed an alliance known as the Axis. Six other nations eventually joined the Axis.

22. Alliance That Changes War
Germany “allies” with Japan
Japan was “China Hungry”
Japanese angry over U.S. support of China
Agreed to peace negotiations with U. S.

23. Japanese Imperialism in Asia
Expansion - Natural Resources
Formosa (Taiwan) - Annexed: 1895
Korea Protectorate: Annexed: 1910
Invasion of Manchuria
War with China
USS Panay sunk on Yangtze River.
Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung.
Occupation of French Indochina
Embargo of oil and other natural resources - July 1941.
U.S., Great Britain, and the Netherlands.
General Tojo: Military government installed - October

24. Hirohito
Emperor of Japan
World War II

25. Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941

26. Damages

27. Allies United: U.S.S.R, England and The U.S.

28. Normandy Invasion, D-Day

30. General Eisenhower Speaks
Talking to his men, general Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the Normandy invasion, wished paratroopers luck before they dropped behind German lines in France on d-day.

31. D-Day - June 6, 1944 Landing on Normandy Beach
It was the largest sea borne invasion in history.

37. The Air War
During world war II the B-24 bombers were used to strike factories, railroads, and other industrial targets.

44. Some Casualties of World War II
Prisoners
Homeless

45. Germany Surrenders May 7, 1945

46. Germany At The End Of WWII