1. 5/21 Warm-up: Who were the Allied powers? Who were the Axis Powers?

2. Allied Powers
Britain, United States, Russia, France (leader not pictured)
Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin

3. Axis Powers
Japan, Germany and Italy
Hirohito, Hitler, and Mussolini

4. European Theater: The End of the War

5. European Theater Recap
Hitler breaks his peace agreements, attacks Poland, and war begins!
Allies vs. Axis powers
Battle of Britain – Germany bombs British military targets, then changes strategy and starts bombing British cities to hurt their morale
US and Britain become allies, though US doesn’t get involved yet (they want to avoid war costs)
Operation Barbarossa/ Battle of Stalingrad – Germany invades Soviet Union, loses

6. European Theater continued: D-Day- June 6, 1944
US enters war in 1941 (Why? Hold that thought)
Allied forces take Normandy beaches in France (1944), making it a difficult two-front war for Germany (Remember WWI? Two fronts = bad)

7. D-Day
June 6, 1944
3,000,000 million men (mainly British & American soldiers)
13,000 aircraft
1,200 warships
2,700 merchant ships
2,500 landing craft

8. Normandy Landing (June 6, 1944)
German Prisoners
Higgins Landing Crafts

9. Northern France is taken quickly, now its on to Germany…
Following D-Day
Northern France is taken quickly, now its on to Germany…

10. Battle of the Bulge Battle of the Bulge
Hitler’s last-ditch effort to repel the Allied armies; unsuccessful- German army spread too thin
Dec. 16, 1944 to Jan. 28, 1945

11. Yalta: February 1945
Yalta Conference – Feb – Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin discuss their final steps in defeating Germany
April 30, 1945 – Hitler commits suicide
May 8, 1945 – Germany surrenders – V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

12. Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945
Cyanide & Pistols
The Führer’s Bunker
Mr. & Mrs. Hitler

13. Mussolini & His Mistress, Claretta Petacci Are Hung in Milan, 1945

14. V-E Day (May 8, 1945)
General Keitel

15. V-E Day (May 8, 1945)

16. World War II: Pacific Theater

17. Japanese takeover in Asia
While Hitler controlled Europe, Japan led a rapid takeover of China and most of Southeast Asia
Leader Hirohito wanted to build a Japanese empire
Conquered areas endured killings, rapes, torture, and starvation

18. Japanese Takeover

19. A date which will live in infamy!
Pearl Harbor- December 7, 1941
Japanese led an air attack on U.S. military base in Hawaii
2403 dead, 188 planes and 8 battleships destroyed
Unified American public opinion to go to war
A date which will live in infamy!

20. U.S. Declares War on the Axis Powers

21. Pacific Theater US focuses on defeating Japan
Sends troops to Pacific island countries and begin “island hopping”

22. Japanese Kamikaze Planes
Kamikaze Pilots
Suicide Bombers

23. Battle of Iwo Jima One of the most destructive battles of WWII
Bombing for 72 days straight
Famous photograph came out of this battle – used as American propaganda

24. So what’s happening
back home?

25. Back in the U.S.
A week after Pearl Harbor, the government of the U.S. directed companies to cut back on the production of bicycles, beer cans, refrigerators, tooth paste tubes, and more than 300 other items to produce war goods.
Wait – all the men are at war… Who’s around to make all these war goods?

26. Women filled the jobs left vacant by men who went off to war
More than 5 million women go to work

27. Paying for the war – Victory Bonds

28. Back in Europe… Drop the bomb!
Potsdam Conference – July 1945 (2 months after V-E Day) – Allied powers meet to draw up plans to reconstruct Europe, and demands Japan’s surrender
Japan says no, so we….
Drop the bomb!

29. The Manhattan Project: Los Alamos, NM
U.S. program that designed the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Little Boy Fat Man
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer

30. Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 70,000 killed immediately.
48,000 buildings. destroyed.
100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.

31. Nagasaki – August 9, 1945 40,000 killed immediately. 60,000 injured.
100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.

32. Atomic Bombs drop on Japan

33. V-J Day: Japan Surrenders Times Square, NYC

34. Results of
World War II

35. Lots of WW II deaths Civilians only. Army and navy figures.
Country
Men in war
Battle deaths
Wounded
Australia
1,000,000
26,976
180,864
Austria
800,000
280,000
350,117
Belgium
625,000
8,460
55,5131
Brazil2
40,334
943
4,222
Bulgaria
339,760
6,671
21,878
Canada
1,086,3437
42,0427
53,145
China3
17,250,521
1,324,516
1,762,006
Czechoslovakia —
6,6834
8,017
Denmark
4,339
Finland
500,000
79,047
50,000
France
201,568
400,000
Germany
20,000,000
3,250,0004
7,250,000
Greece
17,024
47,290
Hungary
147,435
89,313
India
2,393,891
32,121
64,354
Italy
3,100,000
149,4964
66,716
Japan
9,700,000
1,270,000
140,000
Netherlands
6,500
2,860
New Zealand
194,000
11,6254
17,000
Norway
75,000
2,000
Poland
664,000
530,000
Romania
650,0005
350,0006
South Africa
410,056
2,473
U.S.S.R.
6,115,0004
14,012,000
United Kingdom
5,896,000
357,1164
369,267
United States
16,112,566
291,557
670,846
Yugoslavia
3,741,000
305,000
425,000
Lots of WW II deaths
Civilians only.
Army and navy figures.
Figures cover period July 7, 1937 to Sept. 2, 1945, and concern only Chinese regular troops. They do not include casualties suffered by guerrillas and local military corps.
Deaths from all causes.
Against Soviet Russia; 385,847 against Nazi Germany.
Against Soviet Russia; 169,822 against Nazi Germany.
National Defense Ctr., Canadian Forces Hq., Director of History.

36. The U.S. & the U.S.S.R. become the two major superpower countries

37. The start of the Cold War

38. The Creation of the U. N.

39. The Division of Germany: 1945 - 1990

40. The Nuremberg War Trials: Crimes Against Humanity

41. Japanese War Crimes Trials Bio-Chemical Experiments
General Hideki Tojo
Bio-Chemical Experiments

42. 7 Future American Presidents Served in WWII

43. Early Computer Technology Came Out of WW II
Colossus, 1941
Mark I, 1944
Admiral Grace Hooper, COBOL language

44. The De-Colonization of European Empires

45. The Emergence of Third World Nationalist Movements

46. War on the Home Front: Dr. Suess goes to War

47. Dr. Seuss
A political cartoonist before a children’s author….

48. Some of his work during World War II

49. Today we are looking at some of his work….
Don’t forget to:
The events of World War II and their impact we’ve discussed
Take into account his perspective: American political cartoonist
Write in complete sentences!

50. Gallery Walk Expectations
You may work individually, with one other person or in a small group of three
Do not write on the boards/stations
If you are unsure about one station, move on to the next
Do not bunch up at one station
No horseplaying
Do not copy other people’s work
Be productive- when you are finished, go back to your seat
** If these directions are to hard to follow you will be asked to sit down and work on another harder activity independently**

51. Closure Questions- Ticket out the door
How does Dr. Seuss portray the Japanese? How about the Germans?
Who do you think is the general audience for these cartoons?
What common themes do you notice in his cartoons?