1. The Depression into WWII

2. Vocabulary
Totalitarian State- is a nation in which a single party controls the government and every aspect of people’s lives
Fascism- is a political system based on militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state and its leader
Aggression- is a warlike act by one country against another country without cause

3. Vocabulary
Appeasement- is a policy of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war
Lend-Lease Act- allowed the U.S. to lend or lease supplies to Britain and other countries fighting the Nazis while remaining technically neutral
Total War- is conflict involving not just armies but entire nations.
Rationing- is the act of setting limits on the amount of scarce goods people can buy

4. Vocabulary Intern- temporarily imprison
Island Hopping- American forces would capture some Japanese-held islands and go around others.
Genocide- is the deliberate attempt to wipe out an entire nation or group of people
War Crimes- acts of cruelty and brutality that are judged to be beyond the accepted rules of war and human behavior

5. Vocabulary
United Nations- an organization of nations whose goals are to maintain peace and settle international disputes
GI Bill- This bill gave veterans money to spend on business, homes, and schooling.

6. The Depression in Germany
Impoverished Germans grew increasingly dissatisfied with their government
Believed that they were suffering unfairly due to the greed/mistreatment of others
The NAZI (German Workers) party, was formed in the 1920s to fight for the rights
of Germany over other
nationalities/belief systems
Wanted to retake lands
split from Germany in
Treaty of Versailles,
reinstitute pride in German
descent, stop spread of
communism, and
eradicate “lesser races”

7. Hitler Comes to Power
The German government, wary of the NAZI’s growing influence, sent a spy (Hitler) to their meetings
Hitler was only the 55th member of the party
Hitler adopted the Swastika as his symbol as means of replacing the cross (replacing the church with the state)
In 1924, Hitler was found guilty of treason after a failed attempt to take over the country
In prison, Hitler wrote and published Mein Kampf
Out of prison, Hitler reformed to party and was eventually elected to power
After a series of shrewd political maneuverings, Hitler was able to form a one-party, totalitarian regime.

8. War Begins 1933 Hitler elected Chancellor 1st Concentration Camps open
Hitler becomes Dictator
1934 Hitler becomes Fuhrer
1935 Germany begins amassing military
Germany takes away the rights of all Jews
1936 Germany invades Rhineland
1938 Germany aligns with Austria
1939 Germany takes Czechoslovakia
Germany aligns with Italy
Nazis invade Poland
War begins
1940 Tripartite Treaty Signed
1941 Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor

9. Mobilizing for War
Once war started, Congress started a military draft, which sent more young North Carolinians into military service
The United States used federal money to produce industrial goods for the allies fighting Germany and Japan (Axis Powers) 9

10. Women and Minorities Join the War
Female college students picked cotton where there were labor shortages
More than 7,000 women served and thousands worked at factories
women moved from rural areas to the towns to work in factories 10

11. Sacrifices on the Home Front
Groceries were controlled by rationing; families could only buy limited amounts of any item in a month
Gasoline was also limited
Families were encouraged to plant “victory gardens” to raise more of their own food
Polio struck thousands of children; new drugs and physical therapy saved dozens of lives 11

12. WWII in Europe

13. D-Day
On June 6th, 1944, Allied forces (American, British, Canadian) led by General Eisenhower landed in Normandy, France
5000 vessels carried 150,000 men & 30,000 vehicles
800 planes flew 13,000 parachutists
300 planes dropped
13,000 bombs
9000+ men were killed
or wounded in the first
day
The War was over within
a year

14. The End of Hitler
With the war fought on two fronts, Russian and allied forces raced towards each other, each side wanting to claim victory and dictate the outcome
By the end of March the
Russians were pushing into
eastern Berlin
April 30 Hitler commits suicide
with his wife
May 8 VE Day (Victory in Europe)
The unconditional surrender of
Germany to Allied forces

15. WWII in the Pacific

16. Pearl Harbor December 7th, 1941
Nearly the entire US Naval fleet was docked in harbor
3,684 killed or wounded
8 ships sank
188 aircraft destroyed
The US immediately
declared war on Japan,
but focused first on
defeating Hitler in Europe
before turning its full
attention on Japan

17. Island Hopping
The United States of America adopted a strategy where-in US forces would fight only on those islands that were militarily valuable, hopping
over those
that weren’t

18. The Atomic Bomb
In order to speed up the end of the war and avoid massive American casualties in a ground campaign in Japan, President Truman decided to use the Atomic Bomb. The bomb was dropped first on Hiroshima on August 6th, then on Nagasaki on August 9th. Both were important military centers.
Japan surrendered August 15th.

19. The War is Over US Debt 1940 $9 billion US Debt 1945 $98 billion
US Dead ,000
Japanese Dead 3,500,000
German Dead 5,500,000
Holocaust Dead 11,000,000
Russian Dead 21,000,000
Total Dead 50,000,000