Transcript World War II

World War II
The Making of a New Global
Order
Japanese Expansion Before
World War II
Reasons for:
•Results:
•Militarists leaders
Results
•Earlier occupation
of Manchuria
•Now in 1937,
invasion of China
proper
-Signaled
suspicious
intentions
European Aggression Before World
Road to War
War II
1. Mid 1930s: Hitler
withdraws from League of
Nations and built up army
– direct violation of Treaty
of Versailles
2. G.B and France seem to
ignore Hitler
(appeasement!) and Hitler
“annexes” Austria in 1938
and eyes Czechoslovakia
3. In 1939, Hitler invades
Poland and agrees to
“split it” with the Soviet
(both intend to go-back
on this plan, however
Reasons for Appeasement
1. G.B./France/U.S. (all democracies) greatly
fear war
2. They fear communism more than Germany
3. At a conference in Munich in 1939 (after
Germany takes Austria), the soon-to-be Allied
powers allow Hitler to have the German
portions of Czechoslovakia if he promises to
take no more (they believe him)
Aggression in Europe, Africa and
Asia, 1930-1939
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Illusion of Peace
•Neville
Chamberlain,
"peace in our
time.“
•APPEASEMENT!
Hitler's Goal
• World
domination
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Invasion of Poland
London Blitz
North Africa and Europe
•Hitler's goal: Force G.B. out
of the war (or to surrender)
before the Americans (with
their potential for industrial
might) can save them
•Battle of Britain foiled
this plan
•1941: Hitler launched a
massive invasion of Soviets
•Lessons learned from
Napoleon?
•Germans also defeated at El
Alamein early in the war
World War II in Asia and the Pacific,
1941-1945
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The Beginning of the End—Europe
• Soviets– advances
in the East
• Western invasion
• D-Day– invasion of
European mainland
• Onward to Paris!
• Germany defeated
May 1945
D-Day 1944
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Japan will not go easily…
• When this photo of the
atomic bombing of
Nagasaki was taken on
August 9, 1945, from
an observation plane 6
miles up, 35,000
people on the ground
had died.
August 6, 1945
Hiroshima
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And In China…
Chairman Mao
•People’s Republic of China
•
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Europe After the Second World War
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The
Holocaust
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