Transcript World War II

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U.S.S.R
Modernize agriculture (collective farms)
◦ Millions suffered
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Rapid Industrialization
“Reign of Terror”(Purges)
http://www.biography.com/people/josephstalin-9491723
 Italy
 Fascist
Party
 “The Black shirts”
 1922 Marched on Rome
(appointed prime minister)
 http://www.biography.com/peopl
e/benito-mussolini-9419443
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Germany
Write Mein Kompf in prison
◦ Germany weakened by certain groups
1932: Nazi Party become largest party in
Reichstag
◦ People looked for strong political leaders
1933: Hitler appointed chancellor
◦ Suspended freedom of speech
1934: Reichstag building burned
◦ Hitler granted dictatorial powers
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http://www.biography.com/people/adolfhitler-9340144
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Rearms to boost National pride
1936: Germany enters Rhineland (Violation
of Treaty)
1938: Political union with Austria (opposed
by Britain & France)
1939: Sudetenland
◦ Policy of Appeasement to avoid war
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France
 Great Britain
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 Germany
 Italy
 Japan
 Germany
& Soviet Union
 Divided Eastern European
countries
 Sept. 1, 1939: Germany invades
Poland
 France & Great Britain declare war
“Lightening War”
 May 1940: Germany attacked
Netherlands, Belgium, & Luxenberg
 Dunkirk (French & British forces
divided) & British retreat
 June 1940: France defeated
◦ Germany occupied Northern France
◦ Southern France-Vichy France
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1940
Luftwaffe destroyed Britain’s air
defenses, ports, airfields, factories,
and London
 Goal: Break British people’s will
 Blitz: firebombs
 http://www.history.com/topics/worl
d-war-ii/battle-of-britain/videos
Population explosion
 Lacked land needed to feed
population
 Needed raw materials & markets
 1932-Seized Manchuria (puppet state)
 1937-Invaded China
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 1939-Revised
Neutrality
acts
◦Allow U.S. to trade with
Great Britain & France
 Lend-Lease Act
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Dec. 7, 1941
2,400 Americans killed from Japan’s surprise
attack on the U.S. Naval base in Pacific
Heavy damage to Pacific fleet
U.S. declares War
Japanese Interment
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 Selective
training and Service Act
 GIs
 Diverse
Military
 War production Board (WPB)
 More people working
 Union membership grew
 Higher
taxes
 War bonds
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
 Control prices
 Rationing
 Victory gardens (replace food sent to
soldiers)
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U-boats attack American merchant
ships
 Used Sonar, “wolf-packs”, and convoy
system (successful)
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“Desert Fox” General Erwin Rommel
British & American forces defeat
Germans in May 1943
North Africa Campaign
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ned&f=1&free=false
July 1943: Invaded Sicily
 Mussolini lost support
 New government established in Sept.
1943
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Germany invaded
 Soldiers captured (forced labor)
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Germans aimed at Soviet oil fields
Sept. 1942: campaign of bombing
Nov.: Soviets launched counter attack
Soviets drive Germans back
Turning Point of War in Eastern Europe
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 June
6, 1944
 Heavy Casualties
 1944 Aug.: Liberated Paris
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German counterattack in Belgium &
Luxembourg
 Largest Battle in Western Europe
during WWII
 Germany surrenders: May 8, 1945 VE
Day
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Feb. 1945
 U.S (Roosevelt), Great Britain
(Churchill), & U.S.S.R (Stalin)
 Agreed to split Germany into 4 zones
 Soviets allowed elections in Eastern
Europe
 Soviet entered war against Japan
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6 million Jews killed
 1933-Nuremburg laws
 1938- Kristallnacht “Night of Broken
Glass”
 1939-Warsaw Ghettos & concentration
camps
 1941-Mobile Killing Squads
 1942-Death Camps
 1944-1945: Liberation
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Concentration Camps
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Auschwitz
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Philippines fall in 1942
 Battle of the Coral Sea (draw)
◦ Carried out entirely by aircraft
 Battle of Midway (June 1942)
◦ Devastating Blow to the Japanese
Navy
 Battle of Guadalcanal
◦ U.S. offensive in Pacific
◦ Americans took control
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Japanese Soldiers During World War 2
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Battle of Kwajalein
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Battle of Guam
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Battle of Okinawa
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Manhattan Project
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Atomic War
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Atomic Bomb Ends WW2
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