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Chapter 26: Vocab
Demilitarized
Appeasement
Sanction
Blitzkrieg
Partisan
Genocide
Collaborator
Kamikaze
Cold War
WORLD WAR II
THE CAUSES
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“Aryan” Desires Expansion
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Hitler wanted to expand his Aryan ideal
into neighboring countries in Europe
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U.S.S.R.
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Use the Russians as Slave Labor
Austria
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Annexed March 13, 1938
Violating the Treaty of Versailles
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Hitler believed that the T of V was holding
Germany back
Ordered creation of an air force – Luftwaffe
Order nation conscription
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Army increased from 100,000 to 550,000
Moves troops in to demilitarized zone of the
Rhineland
Western Allies warn, but do not use force
Munich Conference
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Hitler desired the Sudetenland, a
predominately German settled region of
Czechoslovakia
Meets with British, French, and Italians to
reach agreement
Hitler is given Sudetenland under promise
that he will stop his advances.
Poland
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Hitler wanted the Polish port of Danzig to attack
Russia.
U.S.S.R. approached for alliance
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Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 8/23/1939
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France and U.K. could not fight Germany alone
Hitler wants Stalin to think him as a friend
Divided up Poland between Hitler and Stalin
Promise to not fight each other
Hitler invades Poland, 9/1/1939
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France and U.K. declare war, 9/3/1939
WORLD WAR II
The Course of War
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Blitzkrieg
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“Lighting War”
Panzer divisions – 300 Tanks
September 28, 1939
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April 9, 1940
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Poland conquered and divided
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact legal
Denmark and Norway attacked
May 10, 1940
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Netherlands, Belgium
Battle of Dunkirk
France is attacked
 Germans go around Maginot Line
where French were entrenched
 British and French troops are pushed
back to the sea
 Massive evacuation across the
channel to Britain, leaving all their
supplies behind
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The Fall of France
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Armistice – June 22
Germans occupy most
of Northern France
The Battle of Britain
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Hitler plans to invade England
August 1940 - Luftwaffe begins bombing British
bases, harbors, communication centers, and
factories
Britain retaliates with an attack on Berlin.
September 1940 – Hitler orders an attack on
British cities, particularly, London.
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Gives England time to rebuild air forces
Hitler eventually postpones invasion of Britain
Help!
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Britain asks the United States for help
Public - Isolationism
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World War I
President - Involvement
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Neutrality encouraged aggression
Supplies to Britain
THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II
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The Treaty of Versailles, 1918
Hitler’s armament build up and militaristic
expansion
The Munich Conference
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Attack on the Soviet Union
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Attack on USSR scheduled for Spring,
1941
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Hitler was convinced Britain only stayed in the
war hoping for Soviet relief
Germany invades USSR June 22, 1941
Russian winter again victorious – Germans halt
Japanese Aggression in the Pacific
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Attacks on China
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Chiang Kai-Shek
Fighting Both Japan and the Communists
Japanese conquer Manchuria, Beijing,
Shanghai, and Hong Kong by 1941
Wanted economic resources
U.S. threatens economic sanctions
Japan’s Entrance
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1941-42 - Almost all of South
East Asia under Japanese
control
United States- “stop or face
economic sanction”
Japan attacks: U.S. Naval Base
at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7,
1941
World War II
1941-1945
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New Alliances
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U.S., Great Britain,
and U.S.S.R.
The Big Three
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Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Unconditional
surrender of the Axis
North Africa
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November, 1942 –
Germans and Italians
surrender to
Americans and British
under Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
Stalingrad
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Nov 1942-Feb 1943
Costliest battle of the
war
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3 million German and
Russian casualties
German surrender
Hitler abandons
invasion of U.S.S.R.,
retreats
The Pacific
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Midway – June 4, 1942
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U.S. Navy defeats
Japanese Navy
“Revenge for Pearl Harbor”
Douglas MacArthur
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U.S. Commander in Pacific
“Island Hopping”
D Day
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June 6, 1944
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Allied invasion of
Normandy
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
(US)
George Montgomery (UK)
Troop stormed beaches
Destruction of German
defenses
Paris Liberated August,
1944
The End - Europe
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Battle of the Bulge – Dec 1944 to Jan 1945
Heavy Bombardment of Berlin begins
 Adolf Hitler moves underground
March 1945 – Allies Crossed the Rhine
Adolf Hitler commits suicide on April 30.
Germany surrenders May 7, 1945 – V-E Day
The End - Pacific
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Roosevelt dies in office
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Harry S. Truman becomes
president
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Only president to serve four
terms
1ST Plan an invasion
Battle of Iwo Jima
Orders nuclear
bombardment of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki Japan
Japan surrenders, August
14, 1945
The Enola Gay Drops the Bomb
Celebration
War Deaths
Country
Military
Deaths
Civilian
Deaths
USSR
11,000,000
6,700,000
Germany
3,250,000
2,350,000
Japan
1,740,000
393,000
China
1,400,000
8,000,000
Poland
110,000
5,300,000
United States
405,000
2,000
Great Britain
306,000
61,000
Italy
227,000
60,000
France
122,000
470,000