Transcript WWII PPT for Notes with Textbook Reading

World War II
Payback Time
 The Germans were ordered to pay back a huge
sum of money for WWI, what was this called?
 War reparations.
 What did Germany decide to do when there
money ran out?
 They kept printing more and more and more……
The Depression Hits Europe
 In 1929 when the stock market crash happened,
the United States asked for what back? (from
Germany)
 The money loaned to Germany causing
unemployment to grow
Looking for a Leader
 Inflation An economic condition when money loses its
value as prices rise. (look at the graphic on pg.
149)
 How did the problems of national debt, inflation,
and unemployment leave the German people
open to accept a leader like Adolf Hitler?
 People were scared and desperate. Hitler
promised to end there suffering.
Looking for a Leader
 What group was Hitler in charge of?
 National Socialist Party- Nazis for short.
The Rise of Fascism,
The Start of War
 Fascism- a political philosophy in which power is given
to a dictator. Individual freedoms are denied and
racism and nationalism are emphasized.
 Fascist leaders/Axis Powers
 Adolf Hitler- Germany
 Benito Mussolini- Italy
 Hideki Tojo- Japan
 Invasion of Poland
Causes of WWII
 Political instability and economic devastation in
Europe resulting from WWI
 High War Debt owed by Germany
 High inflation
 Massive unemployment
 The Rise of Fascism
Allies Reunite
 What two countries demanded that Germany
withdraw from Poland.
 Great Britain and France.
 Why did the Soviet Union join the Allies?
 Because Germany turned on the Soviets and
started invading the U.S.S.R.
The Axis Powers: A Trio of Evil
 How did Japan, Located in Asia, enter a mostly
European situation?
 They wanted to invade china and the U.S.S.R.
was in the way.
Allies after 1941
 Winston Churchill- Great Britain
 FDR & Harry Truman- U.S.A.
 Joseph Stalin- Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.)
Pearl Harbor
“A Day which will live in infamy”
 December 7, 1941
 2,400 men killed and 1178 wounded.
 This led to the United States forgetting about
isolationism and declaring war on Japan.
 When the U.S. declared war on Japan who
declared war on the U.S.?
 Germany and Italy.
Pearl Harbor
America goes to War
 Tension had been building between America
and Japan because of what?
 Japan’s aggression in East Asia.
Lend Lease
 The U.S. lent military equipment to Great Britain
for use of what?
 For military bases in Bermuda and the Caribbean
 What was the lend lease program?
 Billions of dollars of military equipment was given
to the Allies in hopes they could hold off the
Germans without American soldiers.
The Battle of Britain
 Paris, France had fallen to who?
 Germany
 London was bombarded by what?
 German bombs
FDR Four Freedoms
On the Home Front
 When and why did the Great Depression end?
 With the U.S. involvement in WWII
 Factory workers were needed to produce
military goods.
Women and the War
 With a majority of men drafted for war, who was
left to work in the factories?
 Women
Saving Every Scrap
 War meant shortages of things like sugar, gas,
meat, and butter, what was this called?
 Rationing
 Many families grew
 Victory
gardens.
Breaking Down
Racial Barriers
 How did new jobs for African Americans at the
start of the war help temporarily breakdown
racial barriers?
 Black workers and craftsmen were hired by
defense plants.
 But, discrimination still continued.
Japanese Internment
Camps
 Japanese Americans had to deal with what?
 Distrust from other Americans and displacement
to internment camps.
 Most were American born.
The Holocaust
 “Aryan Supremacy”-
 Belief that blond haired blued people were a
master race.
 What happened to Jewish people?
 There businesses were boycotted, couldn’t work
for the government, and couldn’t go to public
events.
 Anti-Semites: discrimination against Jewish
people.
Holocaust
 Holocaust The systematic attempt to rid Europe of all
Jewish people.
The Night of Broken Glass
 This occurred when?
 November 9, 1938.
 What was the night of broken glass?
 In Nazi controlled areas storm troopers beat
Jewish people and vandalized their homes.
 Afterwards, Jewish people were fined by the
government and forced into all Jewish
neighborhoods called ghettos.
Concentration Camps
 Jewish people were forced into ghetto’s only to
be what?
 Forced onto railcars that took them to forced
work camps.
 These work camps would become death
camps.
“Arbeit macht frei”
“Work makes one
free”
Fighting Back
 Jewish people did what to evade the Nazi’s?
 They hid in sewers, under floor boards, and in
closets. Remaining still for days at a time.
With
an
End
in
Sight
 Why were the Nazi’s hiding their death camps?
 Because they were losing the war and did not want
allied forces to find them.
 11,000,000 people were killed through Nazi death
camps.
 6,000,000 Jewish people
 250,000 Gypsy’s
 3,000,000 Soviet soldiers
 2,000,000 Poles and other Slavic people.
The Battle of Midway
 Why was the Battle of Midway considered a
“turning point”?
 Japan lost 4 battleships along with 228 planes
and their best pilots.
Stalingrad
 Why is this battle so important?
 It is a turning point on the Eastern front.
Germany has no more major victories on the
Eastern front.
D-Day: June 6, 1944
 Why was Normandy significant to the liberation
of Western Europe?
 It allowed the Allies to gain a foothold in Europe
effectively numbering Hitler’s days.
Iwo Jima
 Why did the Allies need Iwo Jima?
 For an emergency landing site for planes
attacking Japanese cities.
The Manhattan Project:
The Atomic Bomb
 Why did research into an atomic bomb begin?
 The allies were scared that the Nazi’s would
develop one first.
A Blast Heard Round
the World
 What were the names of the two atomic bombs
dropped?
 “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”
 What was the name of the B-29 that dropped
the nuclear bombs?
 Enola Gay
Nuclear Blast
 Hiroshima
 Nagasaki
War’s Terrible Toll
 Obviously people were happy that the war was
over, but what problems remained?
 What to do with Germany.
 What new problems were developing?
 The Soviet Union had taken and imposed their
communist government on all of Eastern Europe.