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Instability after
World War I:
• World wide depression
• High inflation
• Germany’s high war
debt
• Massive unemployment
Dictator
•A leader who rules
with total control.
The 3 Axis Powers
• Germany
• Hitler
• Italy
• Mussolini
• Japan
• Tojo
Ruled by
dictatorships:
•Nazi Germany
•Fascist Italy
•Fascist Japan
The Soviet Union
•Began as an Axis
Power, and changed
to the Allies after
Germany invasion.
The Allies
*USA
• FDR & Truman
*Great Britain
*Canada
•Churchill
*Soviet Union
•Stalin
*France
Isolationism
•National policy of
avoiding involvement
in world affairs.
Hitler’s promise
•A boost in
economy
•Relief from high
unemployment
Inflation
•A continuous
rise in the price
of goods and
services.
US Presidents
during WWII
•Franklin D. Roosevelt
and later…
•Harry S. Truman
Increased tensions
between the U.S. and
Japan BEFORE Pearl
Harbor was due to:
•Japanese
aggression in East
Asia
When…
•The U.S.
declared •Germany
war on
declared
Japan
war on
then….
the U.S.
The bombing of
Pearl Harbor
•December 7,
1941
•“A day that shall live
in infamy”
War Timeline:
• Germany invades France on
June 1940
• Japan bombs Pearl Harbor on
Dec. 1941
• U.S. declares war on Japan &
Germany
• D-Day
U.S. helped in WWII
BEFORE Pearl Harbor by:
•Giving economic
aid to the Allies
There was a gradual
change in American
policy during WWII:
• Practice of isolationism
• Economic aid to allies
• Direct involvement
Germany invades
Poland
The start of WWII in
Europe
The Battle of Britain
•Germany launched massive
air raids over Britain, BUT the
British Royal Air Force
mounted a heroic defense and
inflicted heavy losses on the
German Air Force. Hitler then
moved east into the Soviet
Union.
Lend-lease
• An act passed by Congress in
March 1941 allowing the U.S. to
sell, lend, or lease arms or other
war supplies to any nation vital to
the defense of the U.S.
• Ex: The U.S. gave war supplies
and old naval ships to Great
Britain in return for military bases
in Bermuda and the Caribbean.
D-Day
•Normandy, France
•June 6, 1944
•Started the
liberation of
Western Europe
The Battle of
Midway
U.S. victory that
was a turning point
in the war in the
Pacific
Stalingrad
•The Soviet Union
defeated Germany
at Stalingrad, oil
rich lands to the
south of the Soviet
Union.
Japan surrendered
because:
• The U.S. dropped 2
atomic bombs on:
•Hiroshima
•Nagasaki
Hitler believed
that:
•Aryans were
the master
race
Holocaust
•a systematic attempt to
rid Europe of all Jews.
•practiced Anti-semitisma hatred of Jews
Concentration
Camps
•Where Hitler
imprisoned Jews
and others during
WWII
“Rosie the Riveter”
•A character
developed to
encourage women to
take factory jobs in
defense plants.
Internment
Camps
•Where the U.S. put
Japanese Americans
during WWII.
Rationing:
•Limiting of
scarce goods
during wartime.
Women helped
during WWII by:
•Taking jobs in
defense plants
during the war.
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