Download WWII 1939-1945

WWII
1. Alliances
Snowballing
to War
1936-Franco-Russian
Alliance
1939-Rome-Berlin Axis
(plus Japan)
2. Imperialism
Snowballing
to War
3. Militarism
Snowballing
to War
Militarism
• Planes
• Tanks
• Missiles
• Blitzkrieg
• Penicillin
4. Nationalism
Snowballing
to War
Snowballing
to War
5. Places of Conflict
Snowballing
to War
6. The “Spark”
In the 1930’s neither Germany, Italy, Japan, nor the
U.S.S.R. was content with the conditions of the Paris
peace conference. Great Britain, France, and the U.S.
were satisfied powers but they had lost faith in the
conditions and were unwilling to risk war for the sake of
upholding them.
Pacifism
• U.S.
• England
• France
Isolationism
• U.S.
Appeasement
• Daladier
• Chamberlain
Repudiated the
Treaty –Armed
the military
Reoccupied the
Rhineland
Anschluss
Appeasement
Ends
Munich Crisis –
Sudetenland
Spanish Civil
War -
British Pact with
Poland, Greece,
and Romania
Nazi-Soviet Pact
War is coming
Sept 1, 1939 Germany Invades Poland
Sept 3, 1939 France and Great Britain
declare war on Germany
U.S.S.R. invades Poland, Baltic States,
and Finland
“Phony” War – Blitzkrieg – Norway,
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg,
and France
Maginot Line???
Dunkirk and “Vichy” France
Italy invades S. France, Greece, and
Africa
MAGINOT LINE
Dunkirk
Hitler takes
the Balkans
• Romania,
Bulgaria, &
Hungary
were Axis
• Yugoslavia
and Greece
were
occupied
Hitler invades
Russia
• 3Million
troops
• 2000 mile
front
Battles
• Leningrad
• Stalingrad
• Moscow
OPERATION BARBAROSSA
Why did the Japanese bomb
Pearl Harbor?
What was fortunate for the
Americans?
Montgomery
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of El Alamein
“Desert Fox”
Battle for
Italy
• What happens to Mussolini
Battle of
Normandy
• June 6 1944 Operation Overlord
• General Eisenhower
• 130,000 – 1st Day 1 million in a month
Battle of
the Bulge
• General Patton
Russian
Advances
• Why allowed into Berlin 1st?
• What was lost because of this?
V-E Day
• May 8 1945
D-Day
German Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel surrenders at Soviet headquarters in
Berlin, May 9, 1945.
The war in Europe is over!
Nuremberg Laws
• Star of David
• Jews have to
register
• Limited in jobs
and marriage
“Final Solution”
• Ghetto’s
• Concentration
camps
• Extermination
• Experiments
Warsaw Ghetto
Liberated camp
Coral Sea
Midway
Battle of Midway
USS
YORKTOWN
HIT BY
JAPANESE
CARRIER
PLANES. IT
WAS THE ONLY
CARRIER THE
U.S. LOST. THE
JAPANESE
LOST FOUR
CARRIERS AND
ALL THEIR
PILOTS.
Island Hopping
Major Battles
• Philippines
• Guam
• Guadal Canal
• Solomon Island
• Wake
• Saipan
• Marshal Island
• Iwo Jima
• Okinawa
Atomic Bombs
• Aug. 6 1945
• Aug. 8 1945
• Aug. 9 1945
• Aug. 14 1945
• Sep. 2 1945
THE DECISION TO DROP THE ATOMIC BOMBS
•IWO JIMA, OKINAWA, AND THE KAMIKAZES
•FIREBOMBING OF JAPAN
•HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
American Casualties for
Iwo Jima & Okinawa
exceeded 90,000
MODEL OF “LITTLE BOY” ATOMIC
BOMB
ENOLA GAY, PLANE THAT DROPPED
THE BOMB
THE CREW OF THE ENOLA
GAY, PLANE THAT DROPPED
THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB ON
JAPAN
Atlantic
Charter
• Similar to Wilson’s
14 pts
• FDR and Churchill
Casablanca &
Teheran
• Unconditional
Surrender
• Occupation of
Germany
• Demilitarization of
Germany
Yalta
• E. Europe –
Provisional gov’ts
until elections
• Cuzon Line: Polish
border
• Germany – 4 zones
• Reparations to
those who suffered
the most
• UN
• Russia – enters war
in East after defeat
of Germany
Potsdam
• Postwar treatment
of Germany
• Denazification
• War criminals
• New Big Three