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World War II
1939 - 1945
US Foreign Policy (Post WW I)
Isolationism
Insecurity
Events in Italy
Benito
Mussolini ...
Fears of Communism
Fascism (Fascist Party)
Events in Germany
Post
WW I Economic Chaos
NAZI Party (NAtional
SoZIalist) ... attempt overthrow
of Weimar Govt
Adolf Hitler -
Adolf Hitler
Chancellor
in
1933
Der Fuhrer
Gestapo under
Heinrich Himmler
Rise of Hitler
Depression
in Germany
Hatred of ___________
Charismatic &
Emotional
Hitler’s Goals
“Clean”
the German Race
Revenge for Treaty of
Versailles
Expand
“living space”
Hitler in Power
Schools
& Propaganda
“Anti-Semitism” Policy
–Nuremberg Laws (1935)
–Kristallnacht (Nov 10, 1938)
Build
up _______________
Italy & Germany on
the March
Italy
invades Ethiopia
Rome - Berlin Axis
Reoccupation of the Rhineland
–“Hitler’s Bluff”
Appeasement
France)
(England /
Aggression (continued)
Spanish
Civil War (1936-39)
The Anschluss (March 1938) ...
Austria
Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)
Non-Aggression
Pact
World War II
Germany
invades Poland
(Sept 1939)
–WW II officially begins
Blitzkrieg
Warfare
Fall of France
Early World War II (cont.)
Battle
of Britain (Winston
Churchill) *1st hour of movie Pearl Harbor
–Luftwaffe
Germany
invades Soviet
Union
–Hitler’s Big __________
U. S. Involvement
Neutrality
Acts
FDR and Churchill
–“trade” 50 destroyers
–US “lends” goods
_______________
(March 1941)
–“Economic” declaration of war
U.S. (continued)
Atlantic
Charter (Aug,
1941)
Shipping in the Atlantic
–highly ____________
Selective
Training and
Service Act (1940)
Events in Japan
Open-Door
Policy with
China (Root)
Military Extremists in
Japan
–Economic Problems
–No natural resources
Japan (continued)
Manchuria
Incident
(1931)
Japan invades China
–US places embargoes on
____________________
Tripartite
Pact (Sept 1940)
US - Japan Relations
Negotiations
(Spring 1941)
Japan invades __________
(July 1941)
–US embargos everything,
including ___________
–Freezes Assets
Purple
Code
Pearl Harbor
Dec
7, 1941 ... “a date that
will live in infamy.” - FDR
The Attack
Dec 8 ... US declares War
Interpretations of Pearl
Harbor
World at War
Axis
Powers
–Germany, Italy, Japan
Allied
Powers
–US, England, Soviet
Union
European Theater
Allies
v. Germany and Italy
Battle Plans
Allies Invade North Africa
–Rommel “the desert fox”
–Eisenhower
Invade
Italy ... Musolini
defeated
Europe (continued)
Normandy
Invasion
–“Operation
___________”
–Eisenhower
–Greatest Amphibious
assault
Europe (continued)
Hitler
Assassination
Attempt
Liberate France ...
General George Patton
(US 3rd Army)
Fall of Germany
Battle
of the Bulge (Dec,
1944)
Fall of Berlin (April,
1945)
May 8, 1945 V-E Day
Pacific Theater (Japan)
Japan
invades
Philippines (Dec 1942)
–Gen. Douglas MacArthur
–Bataan Death March
Island
Hopping Strategy
Pacific (continued)
Battle
of Midway (1942)
Leyte Gulf (1944)
–Kamikazes
Iwo
Jima and Okinawa
Bombing of _________
(Summer 1945)
Atomic Bombs
Manhattan
Project
Ethical Debate
Hiroshima (Aug 6, 1945)
Nagasaki (Aug 9, 1945)
WW II officially over
World War II Wrap-up
Yalta
Conference (Feb 1945)
–United Nations
–War Crimes (Nuremberg & Tokyo)
–Germany Divided
–Poland - Soviet Relationship
Death
of FDR (April 12, 1945)
–President Harry Truman
Wrap-Up (continued)
United
Nations
Holocaust
–12 million people killed
–6 million Jews Killed
_______________
Overall
Results
–Two SuperPowers &
Cold War
–Korea & Vietnam
–Nuclear Age
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