Transcript battle of iwo jima

WORLD WAR II
Definitions
Alliance – union or association of nations that is set up to
further the common interests of its members
Appeasement – policy of giving in to the demands of a
hostile power to avoid conflict and maintain peace
Democracy – government’s power and authority rest with
the people. People express their power through voting
Fascism – political philosophy that calls for the
glorification of the nation above the individual – includes
the use of force against opposition
Propaganda – media that supports the spread of ideas for
the purpose of helping or damaging a cause
Totalitarianism – government that has total control of
society. Power rest in the hands of a few people
Germany Faces
Economic Collapse
A Troubled
Germany
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Treaty of Versailles
Economic unrest
Political Instability
 Weimar Republic
US Response
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Isolationism
War Debt Repayment
 Dawes Plan
Rise of Adolf Hitler
Hitler’s Early Years
Hitler and the Nazi Party
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Beer Hall Putsch
Mein Kampf
Aryan Race -
Hitler Becomes Dictator
Anti-Semitic Policies
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Nuremburg Laws 1935
Kristallnacht – Night of the Broken
Glass
Hitler’s Policies
US Response
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Focus on domestic concerns
Security through disarmament
Hitler Describes the
Jews
'The struggle between the people and the hatred
amongst them is being nurtured by very specific
interested parties. It is a small, rootless, international
clique that is turning the people against each other,
that does not want them to have peace ... It is the
people who are at home both nowhere and
everywhere, who do not have anywhere a soil on
which they have grown up, but who live in Berlin
today, in Brussels tomorrow, Paris the day after that,
and then again in Prague or Vienna or London, and
who feel at home everywhere. [Man in audience
shouts 'The Jews!'] They are the only ones who can
be addressed as international, because they conduct
their business everywhere, but the people cannot
follow them.'
Fascism in Italy
Turmoil
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Same as rest of the world
Cheated by the Treaty of Versailles
Depression
Mussolini and Fascism
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Why would Fascism appeal to
anyone?
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Order and control during chaos
Promise to revive the Roman Empire
Private Property
Rise to Power
Italian Imperialism
US Response
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Neutrality Acts
Moral Embargo
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War
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Francisco Franco and the
Nationalist Party
Hitler and Muss helped out
Rome-Berlin Axis
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Military Alliance
US Response
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Neutrality is tested
Rise of Militarism in Japan
Militarism in Japan
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Depression and second
rate reputation led to
Military Leaders gaining
power
Japanese Imperialism
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Attacked Manchuria
1931
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Shanghai 1937
US Response
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Words w/o Deeds
Quarantine Speech
The Rape of Nanking
Violation and Appeasement
Hitler violates the Treaty of
Versailles
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Reoccupies the Rhineland on
the French Border
The Sudetenland
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3 million Germans lived in the
West Border of Czechoslovakia
The Munich Agreement
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Appeasement of Hitler
US Response
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Negotiation and appeasement
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Hitler Invades
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Goes against Munich
promise
Made demands of Poland
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Wanted Danzig and Polish
Corridor
Nazi Soviet Pact
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Non-aggression pact of
Hitler and Stalin
Secret plan to divide Poland
Plan to Invade Poland
US Response
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Pressing for Peace
Planning for War
World War II Begins
Invasion of Poland
September 1, 1939
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Blitzkrieg
US RESPONSE
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Neutrality
Questioned
Cash and Carry
Plan
American Public
Opinion
Homework
Design a statue or
monument to
commemorate one of
the key battles of World
War II.
Write a Plaque for the
monument that explains
the significance of your
chosen event and at
least three historical
facts, names or details
related to the event.
BATTLE OF IWO JIMA
Significance
Historical fact #1
Historical fact #2
Historical Fact #3
FALL OF
FRANCE
French Maginot
Line
Belgium
Corridor
France falls in 6
weeks
US Supports Great Britain
Britain is Isolated
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France goes down early
Britain was lone power with
ability to stop AXIS
Atlantic Charter 
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Winston Churchill – New Prime
Minister of Britain
FDR and Churchill Met
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Seek no territory
Support self-rule
US Response
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Lend-Lease Act – March 1941
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Arsenal of Democracy
Garden Hose
Germany Attacks US Destroyers
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Drawing found on a
Val shot down
during the attack.
Translated, it says,
"Hear! The voice of
the moment of
death. Wake up you
fools."
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Japanese Aggression
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China, French
Indochina, Dutch East
Indies, British Malaya
Japan needed Oil,
Rubber, Food
US Response
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Cancelled commercial
treaty w/Japan
Stopped exporting
gasoline and scrap
metal
December 7, 1941
US Response
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Declaration of War
PROPAGANDA
The United States
Goes to War
North Africa and Italy
North Africa
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British General Montgomery defeated German Field
Marshall Erwin Rommel (Desert Fox) at el Alamein
Sicily and Italy
D-DAY
Amphibious Attack in
Northern France
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June 6, 1944
Operation Overlord
D-Day = Designated
Day
Largest Invasion force
ever assembled – 2
million troops
First waves experienced
high casualty rates
Liberated Paris and
Belgium
Battle of the Bulge
December 1944
Nazi Troops squeezed between Soviets and Allies
Hitler launched a surprise offensive in a weakened
part of the line
Created a “bulge” in the front line
Allied Victory in Europe
After “Bulge”, allies
closed in on Berlin
Allies met at Yalta to
discuss terms of German
surrender
Berlin ended up under
Soviet Control
Hitler Committed Suicide
VE Day – Victory in
Europe
Discovery of the death
camps
US Strategy in the Pacific
Pearl Harbor Launched
the Pacific War
American stronghold in
the Philippines was lost
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MacArthur – “I shall
return”
Bataan Death March
Island Hopping
Campaign
Doolittle (Tokyo) Raids
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Lieutenant Colonel
James Doolittle
Turning Point in the Pacific
Establish control over
skies and waters of
the Pacific
Battle of the Coral
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Sea – 1st major battle
in Pacific
Battle of Midway
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June 1942
Turning point in the
Pacific
Kamikazes
KAMIKAZES
Japanese suicide
squadrons, known as
Kamikaze, flew aircraft
loaded with explosives
directly into U.S. naval
vessels, killing
themselves in an effort
to stop the American
advance. Altogether,
they sank about 40
ships
Battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
US Island hopped their way
through the Pacific
Dangers other than battle
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Monsoons, malaria, heat,
earthquakes, jungle
conditions
Iwo Jima
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US losses 6800 killed
23,000 wounded
Okinawa
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Costliest engagement 50,000
casualties
Gave U.S. strong positions
to launch air strikes
The End of the War
Bombing of Japan
Blockade of Japan
Kamikazes
Manhattan Project
A-Bomb Attacks
VJ Day August 14,
1945
Casualties
Manhattan Project
Key Players
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Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
J. Robert
Oppenheimer
The Decision to drop
the Bomb
August 6, 1945
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Hiroshima
August 9, 1945
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Nagasaki
August 14, 1945
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Surrender of Japan
Effects of the War
Holocaust
Nuremburg Trials
Japanese War Criminals
Death
Destruction
Homefront
Japanese Internment Camps
 Wartime Economy
 Women and Minorities
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