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Table of Contents
Date
3-17
Topic
7-4.5 Axis Military Aggression
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• Axis Alliance formed in 1936: Germany, Italy and Japan
• German & Italian Aggression
• Mussolini expanded into Ethiopia against League of Nations
• Hitler began demanding lands that contained German speaking
people (Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia)
• Britain and France hoped that appeasement would prevent
another war (they let Hitler have the things he wanted)
• Munich Pact-1938
• They give Hitler lands in exchange for the promise that he
would stop there and wouldn’t ask for anything else
• This was a FAILURE! Hitler and Mussolini continued to attack
more lands
• 1939 Hitler invaded Poland and war began
Table of Contents
Date
3-18
Topic
7-4.5 Theaters of War
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7-4.5 Theaters of War
• During WWII there were 2 different theaters (areas) where
the fighting action occurred
• European Theater and Pacific Theater
• US will fight in both once we join the war
• Europe:
• Germany blitzkrieg (lightening war) against Poland on the west.
• German Soviet Non Aggression Pact of 1939, meant Stalin agreed with
Hitler and attacked Poland on the east
• Hitler took over Denmark, Norway and France by 1940
• Battle of Britain 1940-1941: German air force wasn’t able to
invade because of radar and message decoding
• Churchill refused to surrender and Hitler focused on other areas
• Axis powers took Yugoslavia and Greece in 1941
• Fighting in Africa: Hitler wanted to control the Suez Canal
• He betrays Stalin and attacks Soviet Union in 1941
• He fails at Battle of Stalingrad, 500,000 German soldiers die
Table of Contents
Date
3-19
Topic
7-4.5 US Enters WWII
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7-4.5 US Enters WWII
• Neutrality Acts (1935-1937): We did isolationism and
vowed to stay out of war
• By 1939 it looked like the Nazi’s were taking over Europe,
FDR began to help the Allies
• Sold weapons and war materials to them
• Japan invaded French Indochina in 1941, the US did
not condone this
• FDR put an oil embargo on Japan. We wouldn’t let them
buy any of our oil.
• Japan got mad!!
• Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and
Congress declared war!!
• Why did they attack us?
• Mad that we weren’t really neutral
• Make us join the war once and for all
• Wanted to weaken our Navy before we joined the war
Fighting in the Pacific Theater
• Japan moved quickly to take over islands in the Pacific
(Guam, Hong Kong, Philippines)
• In 1942 the US began to defeat Japan through an ‘islandhopping’ strategy
• Went after the easy islands to take in order to get close to the
mainland
Table of Contents
Date
3-23
Topic
7-4.5 Allied Victory
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7-4.5 Allied Victory
• By 1942 the Allied forces came ahead
• General Dwight Eisenhower (US): defeated Axis groups in
North Africa
• Soviets beat Germany at Stalingrad (1943) and continued
to attack from the east
• British and American troops conquered Italy in 1944
• D-Day, June 1944: Allied forces invade France to
liberate them from Germany
• Victory in September
• Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's final attempt to win, but
had to retreat
• Mussolini was killed by the Italians in early 1945
• Drug his body through the street and hung him on display
• With no hope of
winning, Hitler kills
himself April of 1945
Hitlers Death Clip
• VE Day- Victory in Europe May 7th, 1945
• Germany surrenders
VE Day Celebrations Clip
• The US then focused on defeating Japan in the Pacific
Theater
• Major victories of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
• FDR dies and is replaced by Harry Truman
• After reaching the mainland of Japan, the US began
an aerial bombing attack
• Japan just would not give up!!!
• The US wanted to end this war quick
• Truman ordered the dropping of the atom bomb on
Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
re-enactment
• US dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki 3 days
later
• Japan announced they would surrender
• VJ Day-Victory in Japan September 2nd, 1945
Table of Contents
Date
4-7
Topic
7-4.6 Events of The Holocaust
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7-4.6 Events of The Holocaust
• The Nazi party had a plan to eliminate Jews and other
‘undesirable’ people
• Jews, Russians Communists, Gypsies, homosexuals and anyone
physically or mentally deficient
• Anti-Semitism had led to prejudice of Jews for years in
Europe
• Nuremberg Laws, 1935: denied citizenship to German Jews,
they couldn’t marry non-Jews
• November 1938: Kristallnacht, “Night of Broken Glass”, Nazi
troops attacked Jewish homes forced them to move to
ghettos.
• Final Solution: Forced Jews to concentration camps.
• Many died on the trains, in gas showers, crematoriums,
experiments or through labor
• Millions died
• 1945-1946 Nuremberg Trials charged Nazi leaders with
‘crimes against humanity’
• Found that they were responsible for their own actions
• International Military Tribunal executed 10 Nazi leaders