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World War II
1939 - 1945
The Alliances
The Axis Powers
•Germany
•Japan
•Italy
•Spain
The “Bad Guys”
The Alliances
The Allied Forces
•U.S.
•Great Britain
•Russia
The “Good Guys”
First Steps towards War
•1935 - Hitler creates new
air force & reinstates the
military draft
•1936 - German forces
occupy the Rhineland
•1938 - Hitler annexes
Austria to Germany
•1939 - Germany acquires
the Sudetenland & Western
Czechoslovakia
•1939 - Germany & USSR
sign the Nazi-Soviet
Nonaggression Pact
•September 1, 1939 Hitler invades Poland
•Causes World War II
Japan’s Path to War
•1931 - Japan invades
Manchuria
•1936 - China @ War with
Japan
•1930’s - Japan allies with
Nazis
•1940 - U.S. applies
sanctions against Japan
•December 7, 1941 Japan attacks the U.S.
fleet @ Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
•U.S. enters the war
•2403 killed
•5 battleships destroyed
The European Theater
•Blitzkrieg - “Lightning War”
•338,000 British Troops evacuated
•Germans occupy France
•The U.S remains isolationist until
Pearl Harbor
•June 1941- Germany invades The
Soviet Union
•Nazis on the Offensive until 1942
Battle of Britain
•1940- Luftwaffe attack Britain
•Radar used to detect attacks
•Hitler ordered civilian targets
•British Air Force fights back
•Hitler must postpone invasion of
Britain
•Now focuses on U.S.S.R.
The Eastern Front
•1941- after the Battle of Britain
•Germany planned spring invasion
•Harsh winter devastated Germans
•1942 War turns against Germany
•Battle of Stalingrad- Nov 1942 until
Feb 1943
•Best German Troops lost
•1943 Eastern front lost for Germany
The Asian Theater
•Battle of Midway- Allied Victory
•U.S. naval superiority
•Douglas MacArthur - gifted U.S.
military strategist and General
•Island Hopping Strategy
•Kamikaze - “divine wind”
•Japan Suicide pilots
The Last Years
•D-Day success helps Allies
•Allies recapture Paris
•Soviets defeat Germany @
Stalingrad
•Allies move in on Berlin
•Hitler moves into underground
bunker
•April 30, 1945 commits suicide
D-Day Invasion
•June 6,. 1944
•Allied Invasion of Normandy, France
•“Operation Overlord”
•Fierce fighting by both
•Allowed 2 million Allied soldiers to land
The Atomic Bombs
•The Manhattan Project
•1944 Bombing of Japan
•Firebombing of Tokyo
•Aug 6, 1945 Hiroshima
•Aug 9, 1945 Nagasaki
The Holocaust
•Hiter’s Racial hatred towards Jews
•6 Million Jewish killed
•2/3 of European Jews
•1942- “Final Solution” - Reinhard
Heydrich
•Death Camps - Auschwitz
War Meetings
•1943-The Tehran Conference- “The Big
Three”
•Plan D-Day Invasion of 1944 &
divided Germany
•1945- The Yalta Conference- “The Big
Three”
•Russia Vs. Japan, Creation of UN,
Free elections, divided Germany again
•1945- Potsdam Conference-”The Big
Three”
• concern for Eastern European
Countries
Cost of War
•17 million soldiers killed
•20 million civilians killed
•90% of Baltic Jew killed
•40% of Roma pop. Killed
•6 million Jews
•4 million Eastern Europeans
•4 million Soviet POWs killed