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Warm Up • • • • • • • • When did the Munich Conference take place? Who are the 3 leaders of the Axis powers? What was the key water way in North Africa? Who was the Desert Fox? What year did the Spanish Civil War start? What party did Francisco Franco belong to? On what date did Germany invade Poland What is the Phony War? The Global Conflict: Allied Successes I. Occupied Lands A. Nazi Europe 1. 2. 3. 4. Occupied lands were an economic resource to be exploited Nazis stripped countries of works of art and factories Slavs, other minorities worked as slave laborers in German war industries Nazis took revenge on resistance movements (torture, murder) The Global Conflict: Allied Successes B. Nazi Genocide 1. By 1941, Nazis devised plans for the “final solution” (genocide of all European Jews) a. b. Concentration or “death” camps built in Poland and Germany (such as Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Dachuau) Jews became slave laborers, some used in medical experiments, others were shot or killed in gas chambers The Global Conflict: Allied Successes 2. 3. 4. By 1945, over 6 million Jews killed – massacre became known as the Holocaust Almost 6 million other “undesirable” people killed as well Some Jews rebelled against Nazis, but efforts were unsuccessful The Global Conflict: Allied Successes 5. Some non-Jews helped hide Jews from the Nazis, while others were collaborators, helping the Nazis hunt down Jews a. Vichy France sent 10’s of 1,000s of Jews to concentration camps Warm Up • • • • • • • • How were occupied lands exploited by Germany? How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust? How many people were killed in the Holocaust? What was the name of the portion of France that helped collaborate with the Germans? What did Eisenhower make local Germans do when he discovered the concentration camps? What was the model concentration camp? What does the phrase, “Arbeit Macht Frei” mean? Where was this phrase written? Amon Goeth The Global Conflict: Allied Successes C. The Co-Prosperity Sphere 1. Japan created the Great East Asia CoProsperity Sphere a. b. c. Used the slogan “Asia for Asians” – said they would help Asians escape western colonial rule Japan’s goal – empire in Asia Japan tortured, killed Chinese and other conquered people, seized food crops, made local people into slave laborers The Global Conflict: Allied Successes II. The Allied War Effort A. The Big Three – FDR, Churchill, Stalin – 1942 – agreed to finish war in Europe before finishing war in Asia with Japan The Global Conflict: Allied Successes 1. 1944 – D-Day – opening of 2nd front in Western Europe a. Stalin thought this was a deliberate policy (by Britain, U.S.) to weaken the Soviet Union The Global Conflict: Allied Successes B. Total War 1. Britain, U.S. directed economic resources into the war effort a. factories switched from consumer goods production to war production b. govt. rationed consumer goods, regulated gas prices + wages c. war ended unemployment of the depression era The Global Conflict: Allied Successes 2. Democratic govts. Censored press, used propaganda to win public support, limited citizens’ rights a. Japanese in U.S. + Canada sent to internment camps when govt. saw them as a security risk Bugs Bunny The Global Conflict: Allied Successes C. Women + The War Effort 1. Millions of women replaced men in essential jobs a. b. Worked in war industries, staffed offices, served in armed forces in noncombat roles European women fought in resistance groups against the Axis Warm Up • What was the name of the model concentration camp? • How many people were killed during the holocaust? How many were Jews? • What was Vichy France? • What was the Great Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere? • Who were the “Big Three”? • What was D-Day? Who was unhappy with how long it took to start a second front against Germany? • What happened to Japanese Americans during WWII? • Who was “Rosie the Riveter” and what did she represent? III. Turning Points • El Alamein, Egypt – 1942 – – British General Bernard Montgomery stopped Rommel’s advance in Egypt U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower led Anglo-U.S. force from the west (Morocco, Algeria) – Rommel’s army trapped in Tunisia, surrendered in May 1943 III. Turning Points cont. B. Invasion of Italy – 1943 1. U.S. + British troops landed in Sicily + southern Italy, defeated Italian forces one month later