Transcript Neville Chamberlain “Peace in our Time?”

World War Two:
An Overview
Causes of World War Two
 The Treaty of Versailles
 Economic Depression
 Appeasement of Axis aggression/Imperialism
 Fascist Doctrine: Opposition to Peace
 Weakness of the League of Nations
 Militarism
 Nationalism/Racism
Bracero Program
Bracero Program
Japanese Internment
Lone Pines Japanese Arrive
Camp H: Japanese Internment
Japanese Internment
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter
Women at Boeing
Women Ordnance Workers
Women Ordnance Worker
Women Shipyard Workers
Women Farming
Women’s Recruitment Poster
WAAC
WAVES
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
CORE
Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee Airmen
Navajo Code Talker
Navajo Code Talker
Holocaust Survivors
Ike at the Gallows
Concentration Camp
Financing the War
German Aggression:
1936: Remilitarizes the
Rhineland
1936: Anschluss with Austria
1938: Annexes the Sudetenland
Munich Conference 1938
Neville Chamberlain “Peace in
our Time?”
Did Appeasement Work?
NO! In 1939, despite Hitler’s
promise, he annexed the
remainder of Czechoslovakia
Third Reich 1939
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Josef Stalin
Emperor Hirohito
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
“Don’t Vote For Roosevelt”
British Poster
RAF Poster
Italian Recruitment Poster
German Propaganda Poster
German Propaganda Poster
German Air Force Poster
German Recruiting Poster
Hitler Youth Poster
Japanese Propaganda Poster
Recruitment Poster
Propaganda Poster
American Recruiting Poster
American Propaganda Poster
American Recruiting Poster
Propaganda Poster
Propaganda Poster
Propaganda Poster
American Wartime Poster
Propaganda Poster
Victory Garden
Propaganda Poster
Propaganda Poster
Propaganda Poster
Propaganda Poster
“Any European Youth”
Nazi Invasion of Poland
German Occupation
Polish Children in Ghetto
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
British Air Raid Poster
Gas Mask Education
Subway Used as Bomb Shelter
Air Raid Shelters
Rudolf Hess’s Flight
America Enters the War
America aided Britain: I.e. Lend
Lease
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Poster
Pearl Harbor: The Movie
USS Arizona Memorial
Massacres in Russia
Stalingrad
D-Day Map
Paratroopers En Route to D-Day
Hitting The Beaches
D-Day
Sherman Landing on Normandy
Dresden Firebombing
Victims in Dresden
Buchenwald 1945
Hiroshima
Hiroshima Aftermath
Nagasaki
Nagasaki
Atomic Scars
Attacking Iwo Jima
Mt. Suribachi
New Technologies of WWII
 Radar
 Heavy Bombers
 Aircraft Carriers
 Atomic Weapons
 Rocket Weapons
 Amphibious Assaults
Improved Technologies WWII
 Tanks
 Fighter Aircraft
 Submarines
 Machine Guns
Flamethrower
Maxim Gun Used by Red Army
British 120mm Anti-tank Gun
Bazooka
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
German Panzer IV
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.)
Sherman Tank
Pershing Tank
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
Messerschmitt BF 109
Stuka
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
B-17
Liberator
B-29
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
Hellcat
Mustang
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
British Spitfire
British Hurricane
German V-2 Rocket
Japanese Submarine
WWII Submarine
USS Hornet
USS Yorktown
USS Lexington
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
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