Transcript WWII - SoYoung Kim

WWII
World War I
Part Two
Introduction:
 Most devastating war in human history
• 55 million dead
• 1 trillion dollars
 Began in 1939 as strictly a European
Conflict
• Widened to include most of the world
How It Began
 Lots of factors
 WWI leftovers
• Germany defeated in and had to pay cost of war.
In huge economic depression
• Italy victorious but wanted more territory
• Japan victorious but wanted China
 Outside factors…
What Were These Outside
Factors?
 Germany reduced size
 League of Nations
 French and British unsure
 U.S. isolationist
Hitler Gets Busy
 Gestapo Created -- April, 1933
 Jewish Boycott – April, 1933
 Jewish Books Banned & Burned – May, 1933
 27,000 People in Camps – July, 1933
 60,000 People in Camps – 1938
 Illegal to Leave Germany – October, 1941
 1933 – First Anti-Jewish laws
 1935 – Nurenburg Race laws strip Jews of
citizenship
 1938 – Kristallnacht: Night of shattered
glass – a young Jewish man kills a member
of the German embassy in Paris and Nazis
use this as an excuse of retaliation.
 SS reported 7500 businesses destroyed, 267
synagogues burned, 91 Jews killed and
25,000 deported.
Kristallnacht and Ghetto
Ghettos
 The remaining Jews in Germany were
forced to live in Ghettos.
 Their property was seized and given to
Aryans.
German Territorial Gains
 Austria – March, 1938 - Anschluss
 Border of Czechoslovakia – Sept., 1938
 All of Czechoslovakia – March, 1939
 APPEASEMENT
 Poland – Sept., 1939
 By Summer of 1940, Germany Controlled
Most of Europe
• World shocked as France falls to Germans
Those Dumb Enough To Ally
 Stalin and the Soviet Union, 1939
• Betrayed by 1941
 Mussolini and Italy, 1939
• Off and on betrayed until Italian defeat in 1943
Benito Mussolini founded the Fascist party. Fascists
glorified the state, supported aggressive nationalism, and
condemned democracy because they believed rival parties
divided the state.
“An Alliance That Changes War”
 Germany “allies” with Japan
 Japan was “China Hungry”
 Japanese angry over U.S. support of China
 Agreed to peace negotiations with U. S.
Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941
Take a look at Japanese video of the bombing of Pearl Harbor
U. S. Involved In War
“Do not wake a sleeping giant.”
U.S. declares war on the Empire of Japan. Doesn’t enter
European theater until 1943.
Atlantic Charter
August 1941
Allies United:
U.S.S.R, England and The U.S.
Theaters of WWII
 Russian – Soviet Union and Germany
 Italian
 French
 North Africa
 Pacific – U.S. and Japan
Eastern Front
Battle for Stalingrad
 Video on World War II - Stalingrad
Normandy Invasion,
D-Day June 6, 1944
D-Day
Landing on Normandy Beach
Nazi forces now in a squeeze play between Allied forces
April 1945
 Soviet troops
reach Berlin
 Battle of Berlin
 Soviets defeat
Nazi forces
 April 30 – Hitler
commits suicide
V-E Day
Germany Surrenders
May 8, 1945
Holocaust
War Continues in Pacific
Japanese soldiers on blockaded
islands
Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima (8/6/45) and Nagasaki
(8/9/45)
Atomic Bomb
Read a survivor's account of the bombing
Japan Surrenders
14 August 1945
Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu
Japan Surrenders
 On August 15 the Emperor of Japan
broadcast his acceptance of the Potsdam
Proclamation, which on July 26, 1945, had
set forth the Allies' terms for ending the war.
In his address to the nation the Emperor
cited that the Americans had "begun to
employ a new and most cruel bomb, the
power of which to do damage is indeed
incalculable" and that this, along with the
"war situation," was the reason for his
accepting the surrender terms.