1. WWII Review

2. Life in a Totalitarian State (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy & Soviet Union)
Government Controls Human Rights
Mass Censorship
Mass Arrests
Secret Police
One Party System
Booming Economy (Not in Great Depression)
Restoring Lost Glory

3. Causes of WWII Treaty of Versailles Rise of Fascism & Nazism
Appeasement- Sudetenland & Munich Agreement
Fascist Aggression (Italian occupation of Ethiopia)
Non-Aggression Pact- Germany does not have to fight a two-front war

4. Alliances Allies Axis United States Great Britain Soviet Union France
Italy
Germany
Japan
Italy

5. World War II Operation Barbarossa (German Invasion of Soviet Union)
-Eventual loss due to Climate & Geography
December 7,1941 Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
-US enters War
Main Turning Points of WWII
Entry of US
Battles of Stalingrad & Midway
Cracking of Japanese & German Codes

6. Yalta Conference Big Three (Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill) Decisions
Divide Germany
Soviets taking eastern Europe
Set Up United Nations

7. The Holocaust (Final Solution)
Deliberate murder of six million Jews
Carried out by Nazi Germany
Planned in great detail & required cooperation of a lot of people
SS, led by Himmler, Heydrich & Eichmann, will be in charge of Holocaust
Led to the formation of Israel after the WWII.
Leaders of Holocaust tried at Nuremburg Trials (Charged with “Crimes Against Humanity”

8. The End of the War VE Day (Victory in Europe) May 1945.
Fall of Berlin
VJ Day (Victory over Japan) September 1945
Dropping of Atomic Bombs
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
-Emperor becomes a Constitutional Monarch (No Longer Divine)
-Japan becomes a representative democracy

9. Post-War Programs United Nations Marshall Plan
Goal is to maintain global peace, promote trade & protect human rights
Security Council
-Most important- Job is to maintain international peace & security
- 5 Permanent members: US, Russia, Great Britain, China & France
US Plan that gave massive aid to western Europe to rebuild after WWII.
Goal is to stabilize economies & governments so they will not fall to communism

10. Major Impacts of WWII US & USSR are now Superpowers
Europe is divided between two sides
Cold War
Japan becomes a Constitutional Monarchy
US rebuilds & reindustrializes Western Europe & Japan
US no longer in Isolationism