Transcript WWII - glanguagearts

Hitler’s Rise to Power
The Start
• Treaty of Versailles ends WWI (US, Britain,
France)
– Forces Germany to pay for WWI
– Forces Germany to accept blame for WWI
– Forces Germany to disband armies
– Forces Germany to give up land
• Germany is left struggling after WWI defeat
• Many citizens are poor and unhappy
Post WWI Germany
Germany’s Answer
• Elect Adolf Hitler to undo the effects of the
Treaty of Versailles
• Hitler gives empowering speeches to the
German people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnpTWKKW
Q1o (Hitler Speeches)
Germany Rises
• Germany begins to build up an army/weaponry
– France and Britain not worried, feel Communism is a
larger threat
– Germany’s army would be beneficial to fighting
Communism
• Hitler allies with Italy (Mousseline) and Japan
• Hitler seeks to regain lost land
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnpTWKKWQ1
o (Nazi Weaponry Science)
German Invasion Begins
• Hitler invades Austria and
fixes a vote so that 99% of
Austrian citizens vote to
become part of Germany
• Hitler promises that this is
all the land that Germany
wants
– No other countries react for
fear of war
Lies and Conquests
• Hitler breaks his word and invades
Czechoslovakia
• Britain reaches out to Hitler trying to prevent
war
• The Munich Treaty
– Gave Germany part of Czechoslovakia if they
agreed to stop expansion
– Hitler agrees, but invades the rest of
Czechoslovakia anyways
Britain and France Finally React
• Britain and France do
not have resources to
take out Hitler's armies,
so they make a threat
– Invade Poland = Start
War
• Hitler ignores their
threat and invades
Poland
• Britain and France
declare war on
Germany
Poland
• Germany and the Soviet
Union make a nonaggression
agreement
• Germany invades Poland from
the west, Soviet Union
invades Poland from the east
• Poland is divided between
Germany and the Soviet
Union
Expansion of 1940
• Germany invades Denmark and Norway
– Norway holds out 2 months
• Soviet Union invades Finland
– Only gain part of Norway
• Germany takes Belgium, Several Small
Countries and Northern France
• Italy invades Southern France
• Soviet Union invades Romania and forces
Romania to give up land
Britain Stands Strong
• Italy takes British holds in Middle East and
Africa (Lebanon, Greece, Egypt)
• Germans send troops to North Africa to help
Italian Army
• The Battle of Britain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td8bF6Xgb_Y
– German U-boats versus British navy
– Air Warfare
The Axis Power Gets New Members
• Romania, Bulgaria, Hungry, and Slovakia join
the Axis Power
– Newly formed terrorist-controlled Croatia joins
later
• Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria invade
and conquer Yugoslavia.
• Germany and Bulgaria help Italy take over
Greece
Axis Powers Invade Soviet Union
• Axis powers (not Bulgaria) invade the Soviet
Union
– Norway joins the axis powers to get Soviet Union
out of Norway (leads to Germany taking over
Baltic countries)
• Germans retreat from the Soviet Union
The US Joins the War!
• Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
(Dec, 7, 1941)
• Japanese troops land in the
Philippines, French
Indochina (Vietnam, Laos,
Cambodia), and British
Singapore. By April 1942, the
Philippines, Indochina, and
Singapore are under
Japanese occupation.
• Axis Powers declare war on
the US (Dec 11-13, 1941)
Pearl Harbor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_XFKbRJhV
k (Pearl Harbor Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK8gYGg0dk
E (Roosevelt’s Speech)
The Fall of the Axis Powers
• Britain sets out to reclaim Africa first
• Britain then takes over Italy
– Once Rome is liberated, Allies are close enough to
directly target Germany for the first time
• British and US seek to liberate France by
storming the beaches of Normandy
– Belgium and Netherlands also liberated (Battle of
the Bulge)
The Rise of the Soviet Union
• Germans attack the Soviet Union and are
defeated again
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Soviet Union drives Germany out of Poland
Soviet Union forces Romania to switch sides
Bulgaria surrenders
Germans forced to leave Greece, Albania, and
Yugoslavia
– Finland leaves the Axis Powers
• Hungarians join with the Germans to withstand
Soviet Union takeover
The Fall of Nazi Germany
• US invade Germany
from the west, Soviet
Union surrounds
Berlin
• Hitler commits
suicide
• Germany surrenders
to Allie Powers and
Soviet Union
Hiroshima
• Reaction to Pearl Harbor
• President Truman decides to unleash atomic
bomb although deadly
• Effort to stop fighting with Japan
• Second bomb dropped in Nagasaki
• Soviet Union invades Japan
• Japan surrenders, ending the war (September
2, 1945)