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Objective: Analyze the causes and
course of World War II and evaluate
it as the end of one era and the
beginning of another.
 Created
new air force & began military draft
in 1935
 Sent troops into Rhineland, 1936; violated
Treaty of Versailles
 Britain & France followed policy of
appeasement
 Hitler & Mussolini became allies (RomeBerlin Axis, 1936)
 Hitler achieved Anschluss or union with
Austria, 1938
 Hitler demanded the Sudetenland (western
Czech.)
 Munich
Conference – high point
of appeasement (United Kingdom, France and Italy)
 Hitler & Stalin signed
Nonaggression Pact, August
1939
• Included secret agreement on spheres
of influence
• Sent armies into Poland, 1 September
1939
• Britain & France declared war on
Germany two days later
Overran Manchuria in 1931; China protested to
League
 Japan withdrew from League of Nations, 1933
 Signed Anti-Comintern Pact, 1936, with Germany
 Launched full-scale invasion of China in 1937;
“rape” of Nanjing
 Japan moved into Southeast Asia
 U.S. threatened economic sanctions if Japan did
not withdraw
 Japan began planning surprise attack on U.S.
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Objective: Analyze the causes and
course of World War II and evaluate
it as the end of one era and the
beginning of another.
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Hitler used blitzkrieg, “lightning war,” to overrun
Poland
Sitzkrieg, “sit-down war,” or “phony war”
Germany attacked the Low Countries, 10 May 1940
Maginot Line had a fatal gap in Ardennes Forest area
“Miracle” of Dunkirk – nine-day evacuation of Allied
troops, 26 May
Paris fell on 14 June; puppet government of Vichy
France
Battle of Britain – “Never…was so much owed by so
many to so few”
 “The
blitz” of London – 57 consecutive
nights; RAF held fast
 Erwin Rommel, “Desert Fox”, pushed Brits
out of Libya by April 1941
 RN was able to sink the Bismarck in May
1941
 Germany invaded Soviet Union, June 1941 –
stunned Stalin
 U.S. initial isolationism but increasingly
involved
 USS Reuben James torpedoed off coast of
Iceland in October 1941
 British
stopped GEN Rommel at El Alamein &
pushed west in 1942
 Battle of Stalingrad, Feb 1943, a turning point,
Germans lost 6th Army
 Soviets won Battle of Kursk, Jul 1943 – greatest
tank battle in history
 German & Italian troops surrendered in North
Africa in 1943
 Italy – Allies invaded Sicily, Jul 43; “soft
underbelly” of Europe
 Soviets
broke siege of Leningrad, Jan 44 &
liberated Ukraine in spring
 After five-month battle at Monte Cassino,
Allies took Rome, June 1944
 D-Day – Operation Overlord, greatest
amphibious operation in history
 Normandy invasion took place 6 Jun 44;
confusion but success
 Battle of the Bulge, Dec 44 – last desperate
German offensive
 Soviets
reached Berlin, 19 Apr 45 &
linked up with Americans, 25 Apr
 Hitler committed suicide, 30 Apr; Soviets
took Berlin, 2 May
 V-E (Victory in Europe) Day – 8 May 1945
 Attacked
Pearl Harbor – Dec 7, 1941 – “a
day which will live in infamy”
 Battle of Midway, Jun 1942, turning point,
U.S. naval superiority
 Island-hopping – capture some islands;
bypass others
 Kamikazes – suicide pilots demonstrated
Japanese tenacity
 Iwo
Jima, Feb 1945,"Uncommon valor was
a common virtue"
 Two atomic bombs – Hiroshima, 6 Aug &
Nagasaki, 9 Aug
 V-J (Victory over Japan) Day – 15 Aug 45;
surrender signed 2 Sept