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CHAPTER 26
World War II
The West
Encounters and Transformations
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Chapter 26: World War II
I. The Coming of War
II. Europe at War, 1939-1941
III. The World at War, 1941-1945
IV. The War Against the Jews
V. The Home Front
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Chapter 26: World War II
I. The Coming of War
A. An Uneasy Peace
Versailles Treaty
Nationalism
League of Nations
B. The 1930's
Great Depression
Japan
Nationalism
Takes Manchuria, 1931
Rape of Nanking
Ethiopia
Italy invades, 1935
Haile Selassie (1892-1975)
exiled
League of Nations takes no action
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Chapter 26: World War II
I. The Coming of War
B. The 1930's
Hitler
Violations of Versailles Treaty
Rome-Berlin axis, 1936
Mussolini
Anschluss, Austria
Sudetan Land
Germans in Poland
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Munich Agreement
Neville Champerlain (1869-1940)
Edouard Daladier
Hitler given Sudetan Land
German-Soviet Non-aggression pact
C. Evaluating Appeasement
Fear of war
Bombing
Experience in Ethiopia, Spain
British Peace Pledge Union, 1934
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Chapter 26: World War II
II. Europe at War, 1939-1941
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
A. Changed Warfare
Motorized infantry
Tanks
Air
Luftwaffe
Blitzkrieg
Denmark, Norway, Spring, 1940
Belgium, Netherlands, May
Dunkirk
Britain, France cornered
Royal Air Force v. Luftwaffe
Evacuation
Vichy France
Philippe Pétain (1856-1951)
Armistice
Battle of Britain
From July, 1940
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Chapter 26: World War II
II. Europe at War, 1939-1941
B. Invasion of the Soviet Union
Postponed from April to June, 1941
Mussolini
North Africa, July, 1940
Erwin Rommel (1891-1944)
Against Britain in North Africa
Into Russia
June 22, 1941
Kiev and Leningrad, by October
Hitler delayed
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Chapter 26: World War II
III. The World at War, 1941-1945
A. Globalization
United States
Neutral
Lend-Lease Act, March, 1941
Japan
Guam, Wake, Hong Kong, December, 1941
Pearl Harbor, December 10, 1941
Malaya, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma, Philippines,
by May, 1942
Hitler declares war on U.S., December 11, 1941
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Chapter 26: World War II
III. The World at War, 1941-1945
A. Globalization
Japan
Guam, Wake, Hong Kong, December, 1941
Pearl Harbor, December 10, 1941
By May, 1942
Malaya, Singapore, Indonesia,
Burma, Philippines
Hitler declares war on U.S., December 11, 1941
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Chapter 26: World War II
III. The World at War, 1941-1945
B. Turning Point
Midway Island
Japan attacks, June, 1942
Japanese fleet destroyed
El Alamein
Mussolini from Libya into Egypt,
September, 1940
Pushed out by Britain
Hitler joins Mussolini
Field Marshall Montgomery
El Alamein, October, 1942
Germany out of North Africa by April, 1943
Stalingrad
November to January 30, 1943
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Chapter 26: World War II
III. The World at War, 1941-1945
B. Turning Point
Italy
Allies into Sicily, July, 1943
Mussolini out
Eastern Front
Russia into Poland, Spring, 1944
Berlin, February, 1945
D-Day, June 6, 1944
Britain, U.S., Canada
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Chapter 26: World War II
III. The World at War, 1941-1945
C. The Air War, the Atom Bomb
Cologne destroyed, May, 1942
Hamburg, firestorm, 1943
Manhattan Project
Britain, U.S., Canada
Roosevelt, Churchill, October, 1941
Opposition
Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969)
Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
Admiral William Leahy (1875-1959)
Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
Nagasaki, August 8
Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989)
Surrenders on August 10
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Chapter 26: World War II
III. The World at War, 1941-1945
C. The Air War, the Atom Bomb
Cologne destroyed, May, 1942
Hamburg, firestorm, 1943
Manhattan Project
Britain, U.S., Canada
Roosevelt, Churchill, October, 1941
Opposition
Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969)
Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
Admiral William Leahy (1875-1959)
Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
Nagasaki, August 8
Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989)
Surrenders on August 10
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Chapter 26: World War II
III. The World at War, 1941-1945
C. The Air War, the Atom Bomb
Cologne destroyed, May, 1942
Hamburg, firestorm, 1943
Manhattan Project
Britain, U.S., Canada
Roosevelt, Churchill, October, 1941
Opposition
Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969)
Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
Admiral William Leahy (1875-1959)
Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
Nagasaki, August 8
Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989)
Surrenders on August 10
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IV. The War Against the Jews
A. Genocide
Final Solution, 1941
Einsatzgruppen
Extermination of communists and Jews
B. Death Camps
Wannsee Conference
Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962)
Plan for death camps
From 1942, trains carry Jews to camps
Roma
Porojmos (the Devouring)
Homosexuals
C. Allies' Response
Knowledge of death camps from June, 1942
Nuremberg trials
November 14, 1945
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V. The Home Front
A. Resistance
Warsaw ghetto
Repel Germans temporarily
Free French
Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970)
Greece
National Liberation Front
National Greek Democratic Union
B. Yugoslavia
Croatia
Fascist, from 1941
Nazi support
Jews, Muslims, Serbs targeted
Chetniks
Serbian soldier
Communists
Josip Broz (1892-1980)
Tito
C. Occupation
Eastern Europe v. Western
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D. Women
British Air Raid Protection
Soviet Union
Combat
.25 million
E. What Are We Fighting For?
Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony
(Leningrad Symphony)
Film
Henry V, 1944
Lawrence Olivier
Neo-Realists, Italy
Roberto Rossellini
Open City, 1945
Reconstruction
Britain, Beveridge Report
Endorsed by Labour Party
France
De Gaulle supports reform
Right discredited
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