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Unit 5 World War II
Ch. 16
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the war claims an average of
27,600 lives/day
1150 lives/hour
19 lives/minute
1 life every 3 seconds
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An Army at Dawn Rick Atkinson
Hitler and Stalin 5-paragraph Essay
• Similar to Mao/Gandhi, just in writing!
• “Compare and contrast the lives of
Germans under Hitler’s rule to those of
Russians under Stalin’s rule. What did
each ruler do to gain and keep his
power, and how were the lives of the
people changed in each country?”
Adolf Hitler –
Hitler Search
• Fascism
– A totalitarian philosophy
of government that
glorifies the state and
nation and assigns to the
state control over every
aspect of national life
• An EXTREME form of
Nationalism
– “The Seducer”
Joseph Stalin – Stalin search
• Totalitarianism
Government control
over every aspect of
public and private life
– “TOTAL” control
• “Stalin – Man of Steel”
Appeasement
Nazi occupation flag
• European leaders give in to Hitler’s demands in
order to avoid war, neglecting the ToV…
• September 1938 – Munich Conference
• Lebensraum 1936-1938
– Czechoslovakia, Rhineland, Sudetenland
– Austria - “Anschluss”
• Aug. 1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
– 10 yr. Peace btwn Germany and USSR
The Start of War
• Sept. 1 1939
• Germany invades Poland
– Blitzkrieg
– England and France
declare war
• USSR moves from the East
Early German Offensives
France Surrenders
• German Army sweeps
thru France in six weeks
• France Surrenders
– June 22 1940
Battle of Britain
• Operation Sea Lion
• October 1940-May 1941
• Air warfare
• German Luftwaffe vs
British RAF
• Hitler wants to soften up
Britain so he can invade
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German Offensives
• Operation Barbarossa
• June 22, 1941
• Hitler invades USSR, breaks
Pact
• Battle of Stalingrad (turning
point of WW2)
– Soviet victory
U.S enters the War – Pacific Theater
• PEARL HARBOR
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9RSzcKp6Ww
• Dec. 7 1941 – “A date which will
live in infamy” - FDR
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uCGxk-v-Mc
• U.S. declares war on ALL of the Axis
Powers
• Describe your feelings while listening to
FDR’s speech. What emotions did he
address?
European Theater
• 1942-1943 Axis Powers
gaining and winning!!
• El Alamein turning
point in North Africa
– Tank warfare
– Desert Fox – Erwin
Rommel, Germany
– Patton- US
• Allies advance into Italy
European Theatre
• Combined Allied
attack in Normandy
• Established a
beachhead in Europe
• Advancing towards
Berlin – Battle of the
Bulge
June 6, 1944 D-Day
Race to Berlin
• Allies coming from
West, South and
North
• Soviets coming from
the East (win the
race!)
Berlin ruins TODAY
• Hitler commits suicide
April 30, 1945
• Germany surrenders
May 7, 1945
Europe After the War
• Economies ruined
• Gov’t changes
• Increased US
influence
• Communism
spreads
• http://warchronicle.com/number
s/WWII/deaths.htm
• COLD WAR begins
War in the Pacific
• Japanese militarism and
Imperialism
• Meiji Restoration
• Spreading Empire – SE Asia, Korea and
towards the U.S.
• (even Alaska!)
• Powerful Navy
War in the Pacific
• Island Hopping
• Mostly between U.S.
Marines and Japanese
soldiers
• Japanese and U.S. Navies
– Battle of Midway turning
point
Japanese Refuse to Surrender
• Invading Japan would cost
500,000-1,000,000 US lives
• Harry Truman decides to drop
Atomic bombs
August 6, 1945 – Hiroshima
August 9, 1945 – Nagasaki
• September 2, 1945 Mac Arthur
accepts Japanese surrender
• De-militarization and US
– Japanese Modernization
– China?
The BIG Questions
• Was Truman right in his
decision to drop the
bomb?
• What other choices did
he have?
• What consequences did
this decision have for
the war and beyond?
WW2 Summary So Far
• January 30, 1933
Hitler named
Chancellor
• Sept. 1, 1939 –
Blitzkrieg (WW2
begins)
• Dec. 7, 1941
– Pearl Harbor
• 42-43 Axis control and
success
• Allied Turning Points
– 1942-1943
– Stalingrad
– El Alamein
• June 6, 1944 D-Day
April 30, 1945
May 7, 1945
The Holocaust
•K–W-L
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaCdKwFcHnw
Genocide
• “The deliberate
and systematic
destruction of an
entire people who
belong to one
racial, political,
cultural or religious
group.”
• Genocide is Hitler’s
“Final Solution” to
the “Problem”
Nazi Holocaust Timeline
• 1933 book burnings begin
• March 1933 Dachau opens as a “Work Camp”
• 1935 Nuremberg Laws
– Jobs, citizenship, property
– Yellow stars of David
• 1937 Mass exodus of Jews from Germany
• 1938 Polish ghettos
• November 9, 1938 “Kristallnacht”
• 1941 First “Death Camps”
• 1942 Hitler’s “Final Solution” begins – use of Zyklon B
• 1945 Allied liberation
Oscar Schindler
Hitler Writing Prompt
• Explain how Adolf Hitler used German
Nationalism, Propaganda, and the
Treaty of Versailles to gain, and then
KEEP power in Germany during the
1920’s and 1930’s.