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WWII Review. Life in a Totalitarian State (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy & Soviet Union). Government Controls Human Rights Mass Censorship Mass Arrests Secret Police One Party System Booming Economy (Not in Great Depression) Restoring Lost Glory. Causes of WWII. Treaty of Versailles
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Life in a Totalitarian State (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy & Soviet Union) • Government Controls Human Rights • Mass Censorship • Mass Arrests • Secret Police • One Party System • Booming Economy (Not in Great Depression) • Restoring Lost Glory
Causes of WWII • Treaty of Versailles • Rise of Fascism & Nazism • Appeasement- Sudetenland & Munich Agreement • Fascist Aggression (Italian occupation of Ethiopia) • Non-Aggression Pact- Germany does not have to fight a two-front war
Alliances Allies Axis Germany Japan Italy • United States • Great Britain • Soviet Union • France • Italy
World War II • Operation Barbarossa (German Invasion of Soviet Union) -Eventual loss due to Climate & Geography • December 7,1941 Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor -US enters War Main Turning Points of WWII • Entry of US • Battles of Stalingrad & Midway • Cracking of Japanese & German Codes
Yalta Conference • Big Three (Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill) • Decisions • Divide Germany • Soviets taking eastern Europe • Set Up United Nations
The Holocaust (Final Solution) • Deliberate murder of six million Jews • Carried out by Nazi Germany • Planned in great detail & required cooperation of a lot of people • SS, led by Himmler, Heydrich & Eichmann, will be in charge of Holocaust • Led to the formation of Israel after the WWII. • Leaders of Holocaust tried at Nuremburg Trials (Charged with “Crimes Against Humanity”
The End of the War • VE Day (Victory in Europe) May 1945. • Fall of Berlin • VJ Day (Victory over Japan) September 1945 • Dropping of Atomic Bombs • Hiroshima • Nagasaki -Emperor becomes a Constitutional Monarch (No Longer Divine) -Japan becomes a representative democracy
Post-War Programs United Nations Marshall Plan US Plan that gave massive aid to western Europe to rebuild after WWII. Goal is to stabilize economies & governments so they will not fall to communism • Goal is to maintain global peace, promote trade & protect human rights • Security Council -Most important- Job is to maintain international peace & security - 5 Permanent members: US, Russia, Great Britain, China & France
Major Impacts of WWII • US & USSR are now Superpowers • Europe is divided between two sides • Cold War • Japan becomes a Constitutional Monarchy • US rebuilds & reindustrializes Western Europe & Japan • US no longer in Isolationism