1. World War II

2. The Road to War: Aggression and Response
International political instability arose from:
Built-up resentments from WWI
Worldwide depression of the 1930s
Ultra-nationalist movements in Japan, Italy, Germany

3. The Rise of Aggressor States
National Socialist (Nazi) Party
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini

4. Isolationist Sentiment and American Neutrality
Neutrality Acts (1935, 1936, 1937)
“Cash and carry”: The U.S. would sell war materials to countries if they paid and picked it up themselves.

5. The Outbreak of War in Europe
Munich Conference (1938)
Appeasement
Gives Hitler the Sudentenland in Czechoslovakia
Germany annexes Czechoslovakia
Stalin-Hitler Pact: Appeasement
Divide Poland between them
World War II
Germany Occupies all of Poland (1939)
Blitzkrieg: Hitler moves to take Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France

6. America’s Response to War in Europe
Roosevelt tries to mold American opinion against Axis powers
“Cash and carry"
Selective Training and Service Act (1940)
Destroyers for bases deal
Robert Wood and the America First Committee
Worry about ourselves
American Anti-Semitism

7. Japan’s Attack on Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
Roosevelt called it the day that would “live in infamy.”
Surprise attack that showed Americans the Pacific and Atlantic did not make them safe
Fueled nationalism and patriotism
War declared on Japan

14. Major Powers
Allies: 26 countries that included Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the U.S.
Axis: Germany, Italy, and Japan

15. Major Events
Fought in 3 major areas: Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific
1941: Germany invades the Soviet Union
1942: Battle of Midway (the U.S. gains naval control in Pacific)
: Battle of Stalingrad
June 6, 1944: D-Day (Allied invasion of Normandy, France)
: Iwo Jima in the Pacific
December 1944: Battle of the Bulge
April 12, 1945: Roosevelt dies; Allied troops meet in Germany and Hitler commits suicide
May 8, 1945: V-E Day
August 1945: bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
September 2, 1945: V-J Day

16. D-Day

20. Wartime Diplomacy
Atlantic Charter Meeting, 1941: Roosevelt and Churchill met in North Atlantic to agree on peace principles and establishing free governments
Casablanca, 1943: Roosevelt and Churchill use the term “unconditional surrender.”
Cairo, 1943: Roosevelt, Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek plan D-Day
Tehran, 1943: The “Big Three” meet
Yalta, 1945: The “Big Three” outline division of Germany and trials of war criminals. S.U. promises to help with Japan.
Potsdam, 1945: Allies warn Japan to surrender.

21. Yalta Conference