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1 UNIT 10: WORLD WAR II

2 WW II begins U.S. focused on Depression
Worldwide Depression- leads to rise of dictators Anti-war feelings- isolationism Neutrality acts- forbids arms sales to warring nations 1937 FDR gives Quarantine speech

3 Causes of WWII Japanese Italy Mussolini and Fascism Germany
Imperialism Manchuria/China-1937 Emperor Hirohito Tojo Italy Mussolini and Fascism Germany Failed Weimar Republic Adolf Hitler Third Reich-Nazi Russia (USSR) Joseph Stalin Communism

4 Causes WW II Kellogg-Briand Pact Failures of Versailles Germans Rearm
Take Rhineland Take Austria Munich Peace Conference- Hitler declares Sudetenland his last advance Appeasement Policy USSR and Germany sign Non- Aggression Pact-1939 Germany invades Poland Starts WWII- France and GB declare war American neutral

5 Warfare Germans use Blitzkrieg
Lighting war-heavy use of machines and aircraft- Luftwaffe Quick victory in Poland Phony war with France Finally Hitler invades France France surrenders in 1940 Germany controls most of Europe Battle of Britain Massive bombing of GB RAF defends Britain-radar Winston Churchill Germany never invades GB

6 Battle of Britain

7 The Holocaust Nazi’s persecute Jews Hitler blames them for problems
1939 Final Solution Concentration camps Death Camps 6 Million killed-Jews Camps liberated at the end by allies The Holocaust

8 Holocaust

9 U.S. Prepares for WWII 1939- FDR gets “Cash and Carry Policy”
Axis Powers forms Germany, Japan, Italy Selective Service Act- peacetime draft FDR seeks/wins 3rd term Lend-Lease Act-begin sending arms to allies- Arsenal of Democracy Churchill and FDR sign Atlantic Charter Same goals as old 14 points

10 U.S. Enters War Battle of Britain stalled
June Germany attacks USSR 2 front war Hitler has early success, but success stalls with Russian winter U.S. embargos Japan for aggressive actions in Pacific U.S. suspects an attack DEC. 7TH, 1941 Pearl Harbor is attacked U.S declares war on Japan and Germany

11 Home Front Draft and Volunteers Women’s Auxiliary Corps
Segregated units-Tuskegee Airmen War Production Board Govt. rations out resources Price freezes/ raise taxes War Bonds sold Scientists used-Manhattan Project Women fill jobs in factories “Rosie the Riveter” Propaganda YouTube - Hitler Donald Duck

12 WW II Propaganda

13 Japanese Internment FDR issue executive order sending Japanese Americans into Internment camps Korematsu v. U.S.- Supreme court upholds internment camps/ limits minority rights during wartime

14 War in Europe- FDR and Churchill agree Germany top priority
Battle of Atlantic- Allies use convoy system and liberty ships to control sea Eastern Front Germany has initial success Winter stops advance 1942 Stalingrad surrounded Germany is defeated at Stalingrad Turning Point of European War Stalin wants another front- a Western Front

15 WWII European Theater

16 Western Front U.S. and GB invade North Africa
Defeat Germans and Rommel at El Alamein Move to take Italy Germans make it tough-eventually falls Allies plan an invasion of mainland Operation Overlord Known as D-Day June 6, 1944 Planned by Dwight D. Eisenhower Land on Omaha and Utah Beaches in France France liberated in weeks General George Patton

17 D Day Invasion

18 European Theater ends Dec. 1944- Battle of the Bulge
Last German offensive Germany then retreats FDR wins 3rd with Harry Truman as VP Soviets pushing towards Berlin from the east Stalin, Churchill, FDR begin to discuss end of war FDR dies> Truman President Hitler commits suicide as Russians get to Berlin Germany surrenders May 8, 1945 V-E Day- Victory in Europe Day

19 War in the Pacific Japan has empire much bigger than Nazis
Japan advance into Philippines- General MacArthur has to leave “I shall return” “Bataan Death March” America recovers Bombs Tokyo April 1942 Battle of Midway- 1942 Turning Point of Pacific War Admiral Chester Nimitz Japan never recovers naval power

20 Bataan Death March

21 Midway Islands and Japanese Empire

22 Island Hopping U.S. builds Navy Japan hangs on tight to islands
Guadalcanal- 1942 Philippines MacArthur returns Kamikaze attacks Iwo Jima -1945 6,000 Marines die Okinawa 1945 Even more deadly What would an invasion cost?

23 Iwo Jima Memorial

24 Manhattan Project J. Robert Oppenheimer leads project to create atomic bomb Tested and works in NM desert Truman makes decision to drop bomb despite some resistance Drop leaflets urging surrender Japan refuses August 6, 1945 Enola gay drops bomb on Hiroshima Nagasaki- 3 days later Japanese surrender V-J day- Victory in Japan

25 Hiroshima and Nagasaki

26 V-J Day 1945

27 Rebuilding Yalta Conference- Potsdam Conference Nuremberg Trials Japan
Big 3 meet FDR, Stalin, Churchill Creation of United Nations Security Council is most important body Potsdam Conference Division of Germany Nuremberg Trials Put Nazi war criminals on trial Many executed Japan MacArthur controls it Establish Democracy/ freedoms Still have same Constitution today

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