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WORLD WAR II
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CAUSES OF WWII
• Political instability & economic devastation
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Depression
High war debt owed by Germany
High inflation
Massive unemployment
• Rise of Fascism
– Fascism = “total power is given to a dictator”
– Germany – Adolf Hitler
– Italy – Benito Mussolini
– Japan – Hideki Tojo
*Became the Axis Powers (Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis)
Rise of Hitler
• Nazi Party organized, 1920s
• Nazi party largest in Germany, 1932
• Hitler voted as chancellor, 1933
• New parliament created
• 450, 000 members
• Larger than German army
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THE HOLOCAUST
Anti-Semitism
Aryan supremacy
Rid Europe of all Jews
Tactics
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Boycott of Jewish stores
Threats
Segregation
Imprisonment and killing (concentration camps)
• Liberation by Allied forces
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THE ALLIES
• GREAT BRITAIN
– Winston Churchill
• UNITED STATES
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
– Harry S. Truman
• CANADA
• SOVIET UNION
– Joseph Stalin
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CHANGE IN AMERICAN POLICY
• ISOLATIONISM
– Legacy of WWI
– Great Depression
• ECONOMIC AID TO THE ALLIES
• DIRECT INVOLVEMENT IN THE WAR
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MAJOR EVENTS OF WWII
September 1, 1939 – Germany invades Poland
Germany invades France (captures Paris)
Battle of Britain begins (bombing London)
US aids Britain in return for bases
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, HI
Germany declares war on US
US declares war on Germany & Japan
Battle of Midway – turning point against Japan
Germany invades Soviet Union
– Battle of Stalingrad (turning point in Europe)
• D-Day (Doomsday) – invasion of Normandy
• Atomic Bombs dropped: Hiroshima & Nagasaki
• Japan surrenders (V-J Day)
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WAR IN THE PACIFIC
• Japanese aggression in the East (China)
• December 7, 1941 – Pearl Harbor
– U.S. attacked without warning
• U.S. declared war on Japan
• Germany declared war on the United States
Pearl Harbor
is attacked on Dec. 7, 1941
U. S. Involved In War
D-Day
June 6, 1944 - Landing on
Normandy Beach
Normandy Invasion,
D-Day June 6, 1944
Allies United:
U.S.S.R, England and The U.S.
Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, & Winston Churchill
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EFFECTS OF WWII
• End to the Great Depression (war boom)
• Women took jobs (Rosie the Riveter)
• Conservation and Rationing of goods
• Racial barriers broken down (temporarily)
• Japanese Americans put in internment camps