World War II: Progress & Effects

1. World War II Progress & Effects

3. The Ineffectiveness of the League of Nations • No control of major conflicts. • No progress in disarmament. • No effective military force.

4. Italy Attacks Ethiopia, 1935 Emperor Haile Selassie

5. German trrops march into Rhineland & Remilitarize March 7, 1936

6. Rome-Berlin Axis, 1936 The “Pact of Steel”, 1939

7. The Spanish Civil War:A Dress Rehearsal for WW II? Guernica after the German bombing attack

8. The Japanese Invasionof China, 1937

9. The Austrian Anschluss, 1938

10. Appeasement: The Munich Agreement, 1938 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Now we have “peace in our time!” Herr Hitler is a man we can do business with.

11. The “Problem” of theSudetenland

12. What do you see? A dagger or a wolf?

13. “Final Solution” Video Two Video one

14. THEALLIED POWERS IN WWII

15. Germans invade Poland Sept. 1, 1939 Funny video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=880010407991300683#

16. German Troops March into Warsaw

17. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, 1940 The Tripartite Pact

18. AXIS PARTNERS

19. The “Phoney War” Ends:Phoney War-Sept.’39-May’40

20. Theaters of War: Where WWII was fought Europe Asia North Africa Atlantic Ocean Pacific Battles are fought World-Wide Dunkerque Pearl Harbor Midway Operation Torch Stalingrad D-day

21. Dunkerque • The defense and evacuation of British and allied forces in Europe from 24 May to 4 June 1940. VIDEO

22. Dunkerque EvacuatedJune 4, 1940

23. Blitzkrieg [“Lightening War”] France SurrendersJune, 1940

24. A Divided France Marshall Henri Petain

25. The French Resistance The Free French General Charles DeGaulle The Maquis

26. Now Britain Is All Alone!

27. Battle of Britain:The “Blitz” Use of Radar and number of planes give British a small victory.

28. Air Raids during the Blitz The 'Blitz' of Britain's cities lasted throughout the war, some 40,000 civilian lost their lives

29. Operation Barbarossa:Hitler’s Biggest Mistake

30. 1940, Japan occupied French Indochina (Vietnam) upon agreement with the French Vichy government, and joined the Axis powers Germany and Italy. United States and Great Britain reacted with an oil boycott.

31. Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941 A date which will live in infamy!

32. Pearl Harbor An unannounced military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941.

33. Battle of Stalingrad:Winter of 1942-1943 Turning point-first substantial German land defeat The Siege of Leningrad -872 days 1941-1944 – another German failure

34. Stalingrad 17 July 1942 - 2 Feb. 1943, one of the turning points of the war combined casualties coming to nearly two million first substantial German land defeat of World War II

35. Pacific Theater of Operations Tactic: Island Hopping

36. Battle of Midway Island:June 4-6, 1942 The most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign Between 4 and 7 June 1942, the U. S. Navy decisively defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese.

37. The North Africa Campaign: The Battle of El Alamein, 1942 Gen. Ernst Rommel,The “Desert Fox” Gen. Bernard LawMontgomery(“Monty”)

38. North Africa Campaign – El Alamein Operation Torch defeated the Germans for the first time in the war. The Germans were driven from Africa. The tide turns against the Germans at this point.

39. Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day [“Operation Overlord”]

40. D-Day (June 6, 1944)

41. D Day The operation was the largest amphibious invasion of all time over 175,000 troops landed in Normandy on 6 June 1944 five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword decisive Allied victory

42. The Liberation of Paris:August 25, 1944 De Gaulle in triumph!

43. Global and Total War • Involved most of world- Africa, Asia, Europe, U.S. • Home front • Propaganda • rationing • women in the work force • munitions factories

44. Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945 Cyanide & Pistols The Führer’s Bunker Mr. & Mrs. Hitler

45. V-E Day (May 8, 1945) General Keitel

46. The Allies Meet!!!!!! The U.S., USSR and British leaders met three times during the war. Tehran(Nov. & Dec. 1943): Fight Germany first, then Japan Yalta (Feb 1945): unconditional surrender of Germany, Russia will declare war on Japan Potsdam (July-Aug. 1945)demand for unconditional surrender of Japan, agreement on policy for Germany Click here for Video

47. Yalta: February, 1945 • FDR wants quick Soviet entry into Pacific war. • FDR & Churchill concede Stalin needs buffer, FDR & Stalin want spheres of influence and a weak Germany. • Churchill wants strong Germany as buffer against Stalin. • FDR argues for a ‘United Nations’.

48. Potsdam Conference:July, 1945 • The United States drops A-bomb. • Allies agree Germany divided into occupied zones • Poland moved around to suit the Soviets. P.M. Clement President Joseph Atlee Truman Stalin

49. New Technology/ Tactics - planes, tanks, carriers, jet engines, radar, sonar - Blitzkrieg - Island hopping - Kamikaze - Atom Bomb - Hiroshima - Nagasaki 1. Island Hopping Video Nazi Jet fighter Allies break : Enigma code & JN (Jap Navy)Code by using “Magic” 3. Hiroshima video 2. Kamikaze Video

50. Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 • 70,000 killed immediately. • 48,000 buildings. destroyed. • 100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.