1. WORLD WAR II
SOLs
USII.6A-C

2. CAUSES OF WWII Political instability & economic devastation
USII.6A
Political instability & economic devastation
Depression
High war debt owed by Germany
High inflation
Massive unemployment
Rise of Fascism
Fascism = “total power is given to a dictator”
Germany – Adolf Hitler
Italy – Benito Mussolini
Japan – Hideki Tojo
*Became the Axis Powers (Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis)

3. Rise of Hitler Nazi Party organized, 1920s
Nazi party largest in Germany, 1932
Hitler voted as chancellor, 1933
New parliament created
450, 000 members
Larger than German army

4. THE HOLOCAUST Anti-Semitism Aryan supremacy Rid Europe of all Jews
USII.6B
Anti-Semitism
Aryan supremacy
Rid Europe of all Jews
Tactics
Boycott of Jewish stores
Threats
Segregation
Imprisonment and killing (concentration camps)
Liberation by Allied forces

5. THE ALLIES GREAT BRITAIN UNITED STATES CANADA SOVIET UNION USII.6A
Winston Churchill
UNITED STATES
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
CANADA
SOVIET UNION
Joseph Stalin

6. CHANGE IN AMERICAN POLICY
USII.6A
CHANGE IN AMERICAN POLICY
ISOLATIONISM
Legacy of WWI
Great Depression
ECONOMIC AID TO THE ALLIES
DIRECT INVOLVEMENT IN THE WAR

7. MAJOR EVENTS OF WWII September 1, 1939 – Germany invades Poland
USII.6B
MAJOR EVENTS OF WWII
September 1, 1939 – Germany invades Poland
Germany invades France (captures Paris)
Battle of Britain begins (bombing London)
US aids Britain in return for bases
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, HI
Germany declares war on US
US declares war on Germany & Japan
Battle of Midway – turning point against Japan
Germany invades Soviet Union
Battle of Stalingrad (turning point in Europe)
D-Day (Doomsday) – invasion of Normandy
Atomic Bombs dropped: Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Japan surrenders (V-J Day)

8. WAR IN THE PACIFIC Japanese aggression in the East (China)
USII.6A
Japanese aggression in the East (China)
December 7, 1941 – Pearl Harbor
U.S. attacked without warning
U.S. declared war on Japan
Germany declared war on the United States

9. Pearl Harbor is attacked on Dec. 7, 1941

10. U. S. Involved In War

11. D-Day June 6, 1944 - Landing on Normandy Beach

12. Normandy Invasion, D-Day June 6, 1944

13. Allies United: U.S.S.R, England and The U.S.
Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, & Winston Churchill

14. EFFECTS OF WWII End to the Great Depression (war boom)
USII.6C
End to the Great Depression (war boom)
Women took jobs (Rosie the Riveter)
Conservation and Rationing of goods
Racial barriers broken down (temporarily)
Japanese Americans put in internment camps