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Treaty of Versailles
Rise of Italian fascism
Rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party
Great Depression
Japanese expansionism
Anti-communism
Appeasement
Militarism
Nationalism
U.S. isolationism
Maps
Treaty of
Versailles
Rise of
Hitler
Nationalism
Rise of
fascism in
Italy
Major Causes
of
World War II
Japanese
expansionism
Economic
depression
Militarism
Appeasement
Anticommunism
In Germany, depression, unemployment and
hard times led to a dramatic increase in votes
for Hitler and the Nazi Party.
Election date
Votes in
millions
Share
May 20, 1928
0.81
2.6%
September 14, 1930
6.41
18.3%
July 31, 1932
13.75
37.3%
November 6, 1932
11.74
33.1%
March 5, 1933
17.28
43.9%
Voting for Hitler’s party increased as
unemployment rates rose
Appeasement
Appeasement is the act of
giving in to an enemy’s
demands in hopes of
avoiding further conflict.
In 1938, Hitler demanded
that Czechoslovakia cede the
Sudetenland to Germany. He
claimed that the German
population living there was
being mistreated.
The British and French
prime ministers agreed to
Hitler’s demands without
consulting Czechoslovakian
leaders, in the hopes that
this would avoid a war in
Europe.
World War Two, 1941-1945
Main Points
• U.S. Entry into Conflict
• Impact on Society, Economy,
Politics
• Main Events
• End of the War
Burning Ships in Pearl Harbor
Yellow = Allies
Pink = Axis
Orange = Axis
controlled
Cream = Neutral
A Total War
• War Mobilization
• Federal Control of the Economy
• Westward Shift of people and
industry
• Sacrifice and Patriotism
• Millions of men to war
Building Support for War
• Office of War Information
• War as fight for American
Way of Life, freedom
• Censorship
• Only positive images
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War Propaganda
Masculinity and War
Women in Industries
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Industries vacated by soldiers
Single & Married
45% of workers in shipbuilding
Women’s “duty” to work on the
“home front” while men were “away”
fighting
• High wages, freedom, enjoyment,
personal pride
Rosie the Riveter
Gendered Propaganda
Women = Home = Homefront
African Americans
• Segregated Units
• 125,000 into San
Francisco & Oakland
• Housing & school
shortages
• Segregation in schools
increased
German Expansionism
• Two fronts
– Western Europe &
France
– Russia
• Blitzkrieg and massive
industrial output
• Air Raid on England
• Control of Northern
Africa through Italy
Allied Successes
• Battle of Coral Sea, May 1942
– Pacific Success
• Battle of Midway, June 1942
– Overturned J- Supremacy
• Battle of El Alamien, Fall 1942
– Northern Africa
• Operation Torch, May 1943
– Eisenhower’s invasion
Hitler Weakens
• Turned east and tried to invade
Russia
• Stalled for months, winter hit, millions
died
– August 1942-February 1943
• Hitler pulled out of Russia and lost
momentum in war
The End is Near
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Operation Overlord, Summer 1944
Second Western front
Landed in France
Beaches of Normandy
D-Day, June 6, 1944
2 million participated
Liberated Paris
D-Day June 6, 1944
End of the War
• Germany
Surrounded
• Island Hopping in
Pacific
• February 1945:
Yalta Conference
(UKR)
– Britain: Churchill
– Russia: Stalin
– US: Roosevelt
Race and the War
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Home front
Segregated Units
A. Philip Randolph
Fair Employment
Practices Commission
Japanese/American
Internment
• Executive Order 9066 on
February 19, 1942
• 110,000 relocated to “War
Relocation Camps”
• 150,000 in Hawaii
• 1944 US Supreme Court
supported it
• Over half were US citizens
• $1.6 billion in reparations
Holocaust
Holocaust
–Over six Million killed in gas
chambers & concentration camps
–“Final Solution”
–U.S. State Department had
information
–Anti-Semitism in U.S
End of the War
• Roosevelt Died
• Poland Sacrificed
to Stalin
• Atomic Testing
• “Manhattan
Project”
• $2 billion = $20
billion today
• Trinity Test Site,
Post-War Situation
• Japan
– Truman agreed to dropping two Atomic
Bombs
– Hiroshima & Nagasaki, 1945
– Nearly 120,000 died immediately
• USSR
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Roughly 25-35 million dead
Fear of Germany
Suspicion of the U.S.
Control over eastern Europe
Continued
• World Economy
– International Monetary Fund
– Investment, loans, economic growth
• World Politics
– United Nations
– Security Council
– Member nations
– Debate, conflict resolution
Significance
• Ended the Great Depression
• Migration to the American West
• New economic opportunities for
Women and People of Color
• Brief unity and ongoing racism
• Defeat of Nazis and crippled Germany
• Destroyed Europe
• U.S. and Soviet Union became