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Long Term Indirect Causes
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Short Term Direct Effects
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World War I
Treaty of Versailles (reparations, war guilt,
disarmament)
“Dolchstosslegende” (stab–in–back myth, November
criminals)
Great Depression
Failures of the League of Nations (Manchuria, Italy)
Rise of Totalitarian Leaders (Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin)
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“WWII”
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“Second World War”
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Short Term Direct Causes
 August 1934 – Hitler becomes Führer
 March 1936 – Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland
 August 1939 – German-Soviet Non-aggression pact
(Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)
 October 1936 – Rome-Berlin Axis
World War II
Europe 09/1939 – 04/1945
 September 1938 – Munich Conference
(Appeasement)
 March 1939 – Hitler occupies Sudetenland
 September 1939 – German invasion of Poland
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Japan)
 March 1938 – Anschluss with Austria
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USA 12/1941 – 08/1945
 November 1936 – Anti–comitern Pact (Germany,
 July 1936 – Spanish Civil War breaks out
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Allied Powers
(Britain, France, Russia,
United States, China)
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vs.
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Axis Powers
(Germany, Italy, Japan)
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 December 7, 1941 – Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
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 December 8, 1941 - The United States declares war
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on Japan
June 1940 - France surrenders to
Germany
June 1941 - Germany invades the
Soviet Union
August 1942 - United States
Marines land at Guadalcanal
February 1943 - Germans
surrender at Stalingrad.
November 1943 - Churchill,
Roosevelt, and Stalin meet in
Tehran to discuss WWII
June 6, 1944 - Allied forces
invade Normandy ("D-Day")
August 1944 - Allied troops
liberate Paris
December 1944 - Battle of the
Bulge
January 1945 - FDR sworn in as
President for a 4th term
April 1945 – FDR dies, Harry
Truman becomes President
May 1945 – Germany surrenders
to Allies forces (V-E Day)
June 1945 - The United Nations
is established
July 1945 - American forces take
Okinawa
August 6, 1945 - US drops atomic
bomb on Hiroshima
August 9, 1945 - US drops atomic
bomb on Nagasaki
September. 2, 1945 - Japan
unconditionally surrenders to the
United States (V-J Day)
Long Term Indirect Effects
 Cold War between US and
USSR
 Soviets control Eastern
Europe
 African Americans gain
momentum for Civil Rights
 US still a global
superpower
 Korean War
 Vietnam War
Short Term Direct Effects
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Rosie the Riveter
11 million (including 6
million Jews) die in
Holocaust
Churchill declares an “Iron
Curtain” exists in Europe
Axis leaders prosecuted for
war crimes at Nuremberg
Trials
Marshall Plans helps
European nations ravaged by
war
European colonies declare
independence
Chinese Civil War