Transcript world war one

1932 Election Results
PAUL VON HINDENBURG
elected President
stodgy old guy (like, 84)
1932 Election Results
PAUL VON HINDENBURG
elected President
stodgy old guy (like, 84)
ADOLF HITLER
head of ruling party in parliament
obnoxious firebrand younger guy
1932 Election Results
PAUL VON HINDENBURG
elected President
stodgy old guy (like, 84)
ADOLF HITLER
head of ruling party in parliament
obnoxious firebrand younger guy
Dachau, the first concentration camp, was opened soon after
the Reichstag fire, as a place to take communists accused in
“the plot” –without trial, of course (martial law)
jobs
appeasement
appease = to pacify someone by giving in to their demands
German troops parade in Warsaw, Poland
-first use of the
blitzkrieg
x
(lightning war)
-Great Britain
& France declare
war; WWII in
Europe begins
“The Rape of Nanjing”
• 1937: Japanese occupy Nanjing
as WWII in Asia begins
• Over 300,000 men, women and
children killed (including live burials
or being used for bayonetting practice)
• As many as 80,000 women and
girls raped
• Has been called
“Asia’s Holocaust”
Comparing World Wars
WORLD WAR ONE
• Trench warfare/
little troop movement
WORLD WAR TWO
• Blitzkrieg/
rapid troop movement
Tanks
Aerial bombardment
Comparing World Wars
WORLD WAR ONE
• Total war involves the
homefront
WORLD WAR TWO
• Civilians on the homefront
are targets
DRESDEN
LONDON
NAGASAKI
WWII rough death count, 1937-1945
• 72 million total, including:
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47 million civilians
23 million Russians
20 million Chinese
8 million Germans
3 million Japanese
0.5 million Americans
“We the people of the United Nations, determined
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of
war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold
sorrow to mankind…”
• United Nations formed in October 1945
• Outgrowth of an alliance formed to win the
war against Germany and Japan
-the United States
-the Soviet Union (Russia)
-Great Britain
-France
-China
• Replaces League of Nations,
to include all nations (each with one vote)
• But only the Security Council has veto power
(that’s them, above)
• United Nations formed in October 1945
• Outgrowth of an alliance formed to win the
war against Germany and Japan
-the United States
-the Soviet Union (Russia)
-Great Britain
-France
Nationalist (non-communist) China;
-China had been fighting communists when Japan invaded
• Replaces League of Nations,
to include all nations (each with one vote)
• But only the Security Council has veto power
(that’s them, above)
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Start of “The Cold War”
The nuclear arms race
(Nevada test site – late 1940s)
The nuclear arms race
(Nevada test site – late 1940s)
1949: Russia’s
first successful test
1952 – The U.S.
detonates the world’s
first Hydrogen bomb
• by 1953, Russia
had an H-bomb,
too
1000 x stronger
than the
atom bomb
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