Transcript WWII APUSH

Failure of Peace
5 Reason why Germany mad after WW I.
 Blamed for WW I.
 Stripped of territory.
German
Aggression
Aggression in Europe
5 1935 Hitler begins build up of army.
5 1936 Hitler invades Rhineland.
5 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis Pact
 Alliance between Germany & Italy.
 League of Nations does nothing.
Neutrality Acts: 1935, 1936,
1937
5 When the President proclaimed the existence of a
foreign war, certain restrictions would automatically
go into effect:
 Prohibited sales of arms to belligerent nations.
 Prohibited loans and credits to belligerent nations.
 Forbade Americans to travel on vessels of nations at
war [in contrast to WW I].
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"If France had then marched into the Rhineland, we
would have had to withdraw with our tails between
our legs." - Hitler
World War II Begins
5 September 1, 1939: Germany attacks Poland.
5 Blitzkrieg (Lightening War)
 Air attack to disrupt communications.
 Infantry attacks set up smokescreen.
 Tanks attack
5 September 3, 1939: France & Britain declare
war.
5 Fighting over before France & Britain
mobilize.
Great
Britain
Germany
Poland
France
Austria
“Lend-Lease” Act (1941)
Great Britain.........................$31 billion
Soviet Union...........................$11 billion
France......................................$ 3 billion
China.......................................$1.5 billion
Other European.................$500 million
South America...................$400 million
The amount totaled: $48,601,365,000
Lend-Lease Act: 1941
5 President can lend or lease arms to a country
“whose defense was vital to the United
States.”
5 Would you lend your garden hose to your
neighbor if his house were on fire?
German Aggression
During
World War II
Hitler invades Rhineland.
League of Nations and
world do nothing.
Invasion marks beginning
of his expansion.
Hitler forces Schushnigg
to turn over control of
Austrian Nazis.
Schushnigg backs out
and Hitler takes over all
of Austria.
At Munich Conference
Hitler convinces Daladier
and Chamberlain that the
Sudetenland is his last
demand.
Daladier and
Chamberlain agree,
thinking they have
avoided war.
Hitler lied and before
long he takes over the
rest of Czechoslovakia.
Hitler and Stalin sign a
Nonaggression Pact.
Secretly they agree to
divide Poland.
Invasion marks the
beginning of WW II.
France & Great Britain sit
on Maginot line waiting.
Germany sitting on
Siegfried Line waiting.
Hitler launches a
surprise invasion of
Denmark and Norway.
Hitler also attacks the
Netherlands, Belgium,
and Luxembourg.
French and British
moved north to defend
Belgium border.
Germany attacked
France through wooded
area of Ardennes.
French and British
troops cut off at
Dunkirk.
Private and
Commercial boats
transported troops
across English Channel
to safety.
Germany’s Luftwaffe
begins air attack of
Britain.
RAF fights back and
Britain does not fall.
Mussolini sends troops
to Egypt to take Suez
Canal from British.
Hitler sends Erwin
Rommel to help.
Rommel defeats
British.
After failure to take
Great Britain. Hitler
turns to Balkans.
Hitler wants bases in
the South to attack
Soviet Union.
Hitler launches
surprise attack on
Soviet Union.
Soviets retreat using
Scorched Earth
Policy.
Germans caught by
winter at Moscow and
Stalingrad.
Moscow
Stalingrad
Stalingrad was the
turning point in the war in
the east.
Soviet army began
moving toward Germany.
Japan Attacks
5 Japanese expansion
 Japan taking over Pacific islands.
 U.S. dislikes & cuts off trade with Japan.
 Japan needs American oil.
Japan Attacks
5 December 7, 1941
 America knew attack coming, but not
where.
 Early morning, Japan launched surprise
attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Japan Attacks
5 December 8, 1941
 FDR addressed Congress
“A date which will live in infamy”
Pearl Harbor Clip
FDR Signs the War
Declaration
Japan Attacks
5 December 11, 1941
 U.S. declares war on Japan.
 Germany & Italy declare war on U.S.
Sides in WWII
ALLIES
• Great Britain
• France
• Russia
• (United States)
AXIS POWERS
• Germany
• Japan
• Italy
***There were others, but these are key
players
Key leaders
ALLIED Leaders
Axis Power Leaders
• Winston ChurchillGreat Britain
• Joseph Stalin- Soviet
Union
• Franklin RooseveltUnited States
Benito Mussolini- Italy
Adolf Hitler- Germany
The War on Two Fronts
• European Theater
• Pacific Theater
Allies vs. Germany
Allies vs. Japan
Battle of Midway (Pacific)
• This was the turning point
of the war in the Pacific.
• The US had decoded the
Japanese plans and was
ready for the attack.
• The US effectively
destroyed Japan’s power
and ability to further
threaten the Pacific.
– Japan was forced to go on
the defensive.
Preparation for the D-Day Invasion
• Planned Allied Invasion of France
• In response, the Germans built up their defenses along
the French coastline.
• The Germans added machine-gun bunkers, barbed wire
fences, land and water mines, and underwater
obstructions.
Operation Overlord (D-Day)
• June 6, 1944
• 1st – American and British paratroopers
were dropped behind enemy lines at night.
• 2nd – Allied warships and planes shelled
the coast.
• 3rd – 150,000 Allied troops came a shore
along 60 miles of Normandy coast.