1. The gates of Auschwitz…
Reads “Work will set you free”
World War 2
How did aggressive world powers emerge, and what did it take to defeat them in World War 2?

2. Totalitarianism
Germany: Hitler and the National socialist Regime (NAZI)
Italy: Mussolini, fascist leader
Spain: Francisco Franco, led
revolt, backed by Hitler
Japan: Hideki, overran Eastern
China and Manchuria

3. Picasso’s Guernica!
Response to the Spanish Civil War and Germany’s bombing of the city of Guernica.

4. Causes of WW2 Appeasement – giving in to the demands of an
aggressor
Unchecked aggression – when Japan, Italy and Germany moved in on, or annexed their neighbors the aggression was “tolerated” or barely sanctioned by the Allies.

5. Neutrality-trying to not pick sides Pacifism-opposition to all war
Why?
Neutrality-trying to not pick sides
Pacifism-opposition to all war

6. The HOLOCAUST!
The resettlement, imprisonment and eventual killing of million men, women and children including:
6 million Jews
2 million Soviet prisoners of war
Disabled , elderly and enemies of Nazi party
Homosexuals
Jehovah’s Witness
Gypsies

7. Cremation ovens at Auschwitz

8. The Axis Advance Nazi’s invade Poland 1939..Britain and France
Declare war on Germany
Nazi-Soviet Pact insures Germany a chance to further invade Europe
THE BLITZ!! 57 day bombing of England…Churchill rallies the people to stand up to tyranny, Germany’s Operation Sea Lion fails!
Germany invades Soviet Union

9. The U.S. enters the war
December 7, 1941, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Dec 8, 1941 President Roosevelt announces the U.S. declaration of war.

10. Battle of Midway
June 1942 U.S. Navy destroyed 4 Japanese aircraft carriers, putting the
Japanese on the defensive.

11. D-Day June
The Plan was to drop paratroopers inland, bomb the turrets on the beach head at Normandy via air strikes, soften the coast by bombing it from battleships and then land 130,000 Canadian, British and American troops.
The weather was overcast and many of the targets were missed; however, the Allies took the beaches of Normandy by nightfall.

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13. The Battle of the Bulge
December 1944-January 1945, Belgium…Hitler’s last push to fight Allied forces.
Massive losses on both sides eventually result in an Allied victory and marks the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany
Hitler would eventually
commit suicide and Germany
Would surrender

14. The Manhattan Project
Code name for the project to build an Atomic Weapon
First tested in July 1945 in New Mexico
FDR died April 12, 1945
The New President, Harry S. Truman decides to use the weapon to force the surrender of Japan.
August 1945…a warning is issued to Japan and responded to with defiance…

15. The Japanese Defeat
The Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right)