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World War Two: An Overview
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Causes of World War Two TThe Treaty of Versailles EEconomic Depression AAppeasement of Axis aggression/Imperialism FFascist Doctrine: Opposition to Peace WWeakness of the League of Nations MMilitarism NNationalism/Racism
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Bracero Program
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Japanese Internment
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Lone Pines Japanese Arrive
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Camp H: Japanese Internment
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Japanese Internment
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Rosie the Riveter
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Women at Boeing
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Women Ordnance Workers
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Women Ordnance Worker
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Women Shipyard Workers
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Women Farming
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Women’s Recruitment Poster
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WAAC
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WAVES
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Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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CORE
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Navajo Code Talker
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Holocaust Survivors
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Ike at the Gallows
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Concentration Camp
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Financing the War
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German Aggression: 1936: Remilitarizes the Rhineland 1936: Anschluss with Austria 1938: Annexes the Sudetenland
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Munich Conference 1938
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Neville Chamberlain “Peace in our Time?”
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Did Appeasement Work? NO! In 1939, despite Hitler’s promise, he annexed the remainder of Czechoslovakia
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Third Reich 1939
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Winston Churchill
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Josef Stalin
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Emperor Hirohito
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Benito Mussolini
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Adolf Hitler
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“Don’t Vote For Roosevelt”
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British Poster
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RAF Poster
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Italian Recruitment Poster
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German Propaganda Poster
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German Air Force Poster
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German Recruiting Poster
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Hitler Youth Poster
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Japanese Propaganda Poster
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Recruitment Poster
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Propaganda Poster
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American Recruiting Poster
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American Propaganda Poster
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American Recruiting Poster
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Propaganda Poster
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American Wartime Poster
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Propaganda Poster
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Victory Garden
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Propaganda Poster
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“Any European Youth”
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Nazi Invasion of Poland
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German Occupation
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Polish Children in Ghetto
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After Poland…. Blitzkrieg was “tested” in Poland “Phony War” or “sitzkrieg” April 1940: Denmark, Norway Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg May 1940: France, allies escape at Dunkirk The Battle of Britain and the Blitz
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British Air Raid Poster
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Gas Mask Education
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Subway Used as Bomb Shelter
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Air Raid Shelters
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Rudolf Hess’s Flight
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America Enters the War America aided Britain: I.e. Lend Lease Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
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Pearl Harbor
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Pearl Harbor Poster
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Pearl Harbor: The Movie
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USS Arizona Memorial
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Massacres in Russia
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Stalingrad
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D-Day Map
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Paratroopers En Route to D-Day
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Hitting The Beaches
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D-Day
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Sherman Landing on Normandy
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Dresden Firebombing
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Victims in Dresden
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Buchenwald 1945
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Hiroshima
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Hiroshima Aftermath
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Nagasaki
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Atomic Scars
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Attacking Iwo Jima
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Mt. Suribachi
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New Technologies of WWII Radar Heavy Bombers Aircraft Carriers Atomic Weapons Rocket Weapons Amphibious Assaults
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Improved Technologies WWII TTanks FFighter Aircraft SSubmarines MMachine Guns
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Flamethrower
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Maxim Gun Used by Red Army
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British 120mm Anti-tank Gun
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Bazooka
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The Panzer IV Introduced in 1937, 230 horsepower, 18mph This was used as the main tank in blitzkrieg Replaced by the Panther after Russian campaign
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German Panzer IV
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American Tanks Sherman was the main American tank: 500 horsepower, 26 mph Pershing was produced in January 1945, used mainly in Okinawa (500 horsepower, 30 mph.)
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Sherman Tank
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Pershing Tank
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German Planes Messerschmitt: powered by Rolls Royce Engine 342 mph, 410 mile range considered best in world until Battle of Britain Stuka: Dive bomber 238 mph, 490 mile range
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Messerschmitt BF 109
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Stuka
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American Bombers B-17 (1935): 3,000 mile range, 317 mph 9 man crew, 17,600 lbs of bombs B-24 Liberator (1942): 2,850 mile range, 303 mph 8 man crew, 8,800 lbs of bombs B-29 Superfortress (1942): 4,100 mile range 358 mph, 20,000 lbs of bombs
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B-17
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Liberator
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B-29
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American Fighters Hellcat (1942): carrier based fighter 376 mph, 1,090 mile range proved to be superior to Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Mustang (1940): 390 mph, 730 mile range could also carry 1,000 lbs of bombs used to escort bombers over Germany
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Hellcat
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Mustang
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British Planes: Spitfire (1936): 1,030 horsepower Rolls Royce engine Used as a fighter/bomber (500 lbs) mainly against German fighters Hurricane (1935): 1,030 horsepower Rolls Royce engine first fighter to break 300 mph barrier Used against bomber squadrons of Luftwaffe
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British Spitfire
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British Hurricane
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German V-2 Rocket
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Japanese Submarine
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WWII Submarine
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USS Hornet
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USS Yorktown
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USS Lexington
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Results of World War Two 60 Million Deaths 50 million “Displaced Persons” Billions of dollars in damage Disrupted industries and agriculture Nuremburg Trials Creation of the United Nations
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Results Cont…….. Rise of “superpowers”: U.S. and U.S.S.R. Relative Decline of England and France as world powers Rise of nationalist movements: Africa, Asia Creation of Israel Soviet Control of Eastern Europe
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