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Africa, the Middle East and
Asia during WWII 1939-42
1. Asia from 1939-1942
2. WWII in Africa 1939-42
3. War in the Mandates in Middle East 39-42
Asia 1930 to 1941
and then 1942 WWII
Map of Asia
 Occupied by Japan: ____________
 Pg 230 in book-Japan, Korea,
Manchuria, Parts of China, Thailand,
Burma (Myanmar), Indochina
(Vietnam), Indonesia, Malaysia
 Allied Advances: __________
 Asterisk for Battles
Japanese Expansion in Asia
 What were Japanese reasons for war and
expansion into Manchuria (China)?
 Big business raw materials
 Exports import Great Depression
 Superior race theory
 What is Bushido?
 Way of the warrior to die for the empire
because he has no value and neither does his
enemy
 Rape of Nanjing 250,000 civilians slaughtered
What was the
USA’s relationship with
Japan?
 Threatened by mutual interests
“Open Door”
 Embargo 1940 on scrap iron and
weapons to Japan
 July 1941 embargo oil and steel
 Consequences for Japanese
Americans?
“A day that will live in
infamy”
Dec 7, 1941
Japanese Objectives WWII
 Break US Embargo
 End interference
with conquest of
China
 Build Empire with
raw materials and
markets for exports
Success for Japan 1941
 Japan expands ‘41
 See Map
 General Macarthur
 US Navy Battle of
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Coral Sea May 1942
 June 1942 Battle of
Midway
 August 1942
Guadalcanal
 6 months Allied Win
 Turning Point against
Japan
 Island Hopping until
Air Access to Japan
World War II Pacific
World War II in
Africa 1939-42
Map in Africa
 Use the map key to figure out your
colors
 Draw and Label the Suez Canal
 Remember Affected Colonies:
 French Colonies: Morocco, Algeria,
Tunisia
 Italian Colonies: Libya, Ethiopia
 British Colonies: Egypt
Axis Aims in North Africa
 Explain Mussolini’s desire to make
the Mediterranean an “Italian Lake”
 Why is Egypt important to the British
and the Allies?
1940-41
 Mussolini Attacks
 Sept. 1940 from Libya
and Egypt
 Oct 1940 invades
Greece
 Hitler must reinforce
Italy and delay USSR
invasion
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WWII in Africa 1940-42
Seasaw
 Why was there an
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increased Allied focus on
North Africa?
 Where would they
launch an invasion of
Europe?
 Shipping Supplies and
strategy
 Increased urgency to
finish the war after 1941
 Debated, sabotage
USSR
 Who was ‘Desert Fox’

German: General Erwin Rommel

Only General named by
Churchill in British Parliament
Battle of El Alemain
 North African back and forth
 July 1 1942 First Battle of Alemain
 Allies stop Desert Fox General Rommel
and Axis
 October 23, 1942 Allied General
Bernard Montgomery counter
attacks the Axis
 Allies push Rommel and Axis back
BR 1/2 Sheet
(write down your answers)
1. During the interwar period, what
political activity did the mandates
focus on?
2. What was the effect of WWII on the
Middle East?
3. EC List the 6 states of the Middle East
during the interwar period
Answers for BR
 Independence, some reforms must be
specific in land reform or welfare reform
 Loosened the grip of Anglo-French
dominance and they eventually got
independence from France and Great
Britain.
 EC: Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq,
and Transjordan, or Saudi Arabia, Iran,
Yemen,
WWII 1939-1945 in
Middle East Mandates
WWII in the Middle East
 1939 Britain invades Iran, occupied by
USSR as well
 oil, transport supplies to USSR, USA involved
 Negative of development of Iran
 Turkey stays out of the war as a neutral
friendly to both sides declares war 1945
on Germany
WWII in ME
 Iraq: Anglo Iraqi War 1941
 Ruling Elite use WWII as opportunity for
independence
 Iraqi military grows in power
 Nuri al Said vs Four Colonels and Rashid
Ali
 Divided elite, bitter Britain
WWII ME
 Egypt
 Pivot of British Defense System
 500,000 British and commonwealth troops
passed through Egypt
 Cairo was HQ for ME supplies
 Shortages led to Egypt to develop
manufacturing
 Monarchy, parliament, Wafd all discredited
 Lampson and King Faruk Feb 4, 1942= Wafdist
cabinet
WWII in ME
 Syria and Lebanon
 French Mandates
 Vichy, Germany vs Free France and GB within
the mandates
 GB Blockade economic hardship and hunger
 De Gaulle agrees to independence
 July 1941 Free France enters and takes away
promise of independence
 Confrontations continued
WWII in ME
 Saudi Arabia
 Ibn Saud King, had 41 sons
 GB treaty and cooperates during WWII
 1933 standard oil of California aka ARAMCO
not until 38, so impoverished nation
 Officially neutral until 45 declared war on
Germany
 Palestine
 You already know this 1939-45 GB changed
policies with White Paper of 39, and then left
by 47 with the mandate in chaos
North Africa and the
Middle East 1943-45
1. North Africa 43-45
2. Middle East 43-45
Amphibious Military
Technology
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
commander of Anglo-American
force
 Why invade Algeria and
Morocco?
 Map: Allied offensive
WWII In the Pacific 19421945
1. Island Hopping Campaign
42-45
2. British Campaigns 42-45
3. Atomic Bomb
4. Peace with Japan and