1. 12. America in World War II

2. Terms #1 Appeasement/ Neville Chamberlain Neutrality Acts
Flying Tigers
Pearl Harbor
Rationing
Victory Gardens
Office of War Information
Tuskegee Airmen
Executive Order 9066
Korematsu v. U.S.
Winston Churchill
Dorie Miller

3. Origins of World War II World War I Treaty of Versailles
Great Depression
Rise of the Dictatorships
Joseph Stalin – Soviet Union – Communist
Hediki Tojo – Japan - Imperialist
Benito Mussolini – Italy – Fascist
Francisco Franco – Spain – Fascist
Adolf Hitler – Germany – Nazi
Failure of the League of Nations without U.S.

4. Treaty of Versailles Sets the table for World War II
The major players that form the Axis Powers are created:
Germany –
taking blame for WW1, military decreased, economy poor, Imperialism ended
this leads to the rise of Adolf Hitler
Italy –
Imperialism rejected, pushed off the spoils table at the Treaty of Versailles.
Rise of Mussolini
Japan –
Imperialism shunned, spoils taken away from them, insulted and rejected for their part in WW1.
Rise of Tojo.

5. Hitler begins to take over Europe
By 1938 the Germans control Austria and much of Europe
Britain (Chamberlain) and France (Daladier) try to appease Hitler by allowing him to take the Sudetenland.

6. Germany breaks promise
Germany enters a Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union.
1939
Germany takes Poland (for the land taken at the Treaty of Versailles)
World War II in Europe starts

7. Blitzkrieg Invasion of Poland, 1939
World War II
Begins

8. Germany breaks the Non-Aggression Pact
1941: Germany invades Soviet Union
Hitler’s biggest mistake.

9. 5 Sentence Paragraphs
Read the portion of the Quarantine Speech on p.230.
Respond to the two questions at the end of that selection.
Each response must be in paragraph form with five sentences.
Answer the question
3 supporting sentences
conclusion

10. Japan begins to move across Asia
Japan attempts to take over Asia
Japan invades Indo-China
US freezes assets in America
Cut off trade with Japan
Japan plans a surprise attack on US.

11. View and discuss The attack scene in “Pearl Harbor”
The Japanese government has planned for months for this Sunday morning surprise attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor.

12. America Declares War December 8, 1941 (the day after the attack)
U.S. declares war on Japan (
Axis Powers:
Germany
Italy
Japan
Allied Powers:
U.S.
Great Britain
France
USSR

13. On the Home front
American citizens helped pay for the war by purchasing war bonds.
High level of volunteerism during the war.
Rationing regulated the amount of goods Americans could purchase
Saving some for Europe
Victory Gardens planted by citizens to provide home vegetables and fruits.

14. Office of War Information
Controlled American propaganda about the war.
Posters, newsreels and radio broadcasts designed to support American patriotism and paint Axis powers as evil.

15. The Role of Women
In the factories
As volunteers in the armed services

16. Ethnic minorities African-Americans in segregated units.
Tuskegee Airmen fly escort planes for the bombers
Vernon Baker receives Medal of Honor
Dorie Miller receives the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor, also first African American to have a ship named for him.
Native Americans enlisted in higher proportion than other groups
Navajo Code Talkers
Mexican Americans fought in all battles

17. Terms #2 George Patton Dwight Eisenhower Vernon Baker Omar Bradley
Holocaust
D-Day
Concentration Camps
Genocide

18. Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans were relocated in Internment Camps farther inland
Executive Order 9066 was responsible for this.
Korematsu v. U.S. attempt to declare unconstitutional but fails.

19. HOLOCAUST Hitler’s answer to the Jewish problem
Blamed Jews for Germany’s problems
Attempted genocide of Jews during WWII
Effort to murder an entire people or nationality
Places in concentration camps, forced to do hard labor, experimented on, etc.
Hitler was responsible for the deaths of
6 million Jews
700 thousand Gypsies
100,000 Homosexuals
100,000 African Americans and Hispanics
Also, political prisoners and the mentally-disabled

20. HOLOCAUST

21. The War in Europe Allies take Northern Africa first Axis Power in 1942
Cross the Mediterranean and take Sicily then Italy.
Soviet Union pushes through Poland from the East
D-Day Invasion on the Normandy coast placed Allies in position to attack from the west.
Axis Power in 1942

22. D-Day Invasion
View and discuss the invasion of Normandy in France as seen in “Saving Private Ryan”

23. Europe in June of 1944 Allies push Germans from the West
Soviet Union pushes Germans from the East
Allied leaders continue to push German army to the north toward their country

24. Europe in March, 1944 Battle of the Bulge 1945
Final major battle of the war
on German border with France and Belgium
December, 1944
1945
Germans surrender in May
War in Europe is over
After the war discover evidence of the holocaust.

25. Terms #3 Bataan Death March Navajo Code Talkers Battle of Midway
Nuremberg Trials
Douglas MacArthur
Harry Truman
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima / Nagasaki
Chester Nimitz
George C. Marshall

26. War in Asia and the Pacific
Japan was successful first two years.
Bataan Death March
1942
American and Filipino prisoners were marched 60 miles through the jungle with no food
About 5000 Americans died.

27. Battle Plan US regains superiority
Island-Hopping:
Liberating islands in random order
Navajo code Talkers:
Code could not be broken
Battle of Midway
turning point. (Adm. Nimitz)
Douglas MacArthur
Army commander
Assault on Okinawa was similar to D-Day
Chief of Staff
George C. Marshall

28. Manhattan Project Albert Einstein
(German refugee)
informs President Roosevelt that the Germans are developing an atomic bomb.
Organizes the Manhattan Project in order to develop one.
Roosevelt died several months after his fourth electoral victory
Harry S Truman is left to decide about dropping the bomb.

29. The Bomb is Dropped In Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Truman felt that it saved American lives.
Japan surrenders in August of 1945

30. Nuremberg Trials,
The end of the war revealed the full extent of Nazi terrorism.
Surviving Nazi leaders were put on trial
Many were hanged or imprisoned.
The trials demonstrated that individuals are responsible for their actions, even in times of war.

31. Division of Germany Germany is divided into four zones
U.S., Britain, France, Soviet Union
Occupying powers “denazified” Germany
Hitler’s efforts succeeded in discrediting racism, anti-Semitism, Social Darwinism, eugenics, and similar ideas.
This will have a major impact on the later Civil Rights Movement.

32. Occupation of Japan
General MacArthur was assigned the task of rebuilding
Japan lost their overseas empire.
Military leaders were put on trial and punished.
Japan renounced the use of nuclear weapons
Agreed not to wage war.