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Bell Work. DEFINE Appeasement Benito Mussolini Joseph Stalin Anti-Semitism Totalitarian page 364. Italy. Benito Mussolini King names him head of government He bans; all other forms of government Freedom of press Seize Countries Takes over Ethopia in 1935
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Bell Work • DEFINE • Appeasement • Benito Mussolini • Joseph Stalin • Anti-Semitism • Totalitarian page 364
Italy • Benito Mussolini • King names him head of government • He bans; • all other forms of government • Freedom of press • Seize Countries • Takes over Ethopia in 1935 • Takes over Albania 1939
Soviet Union • Leader • Joseph Stalin • Used force to obtain obedience • 39,157 military officers prisoned or killed • For people, millions were sent to “labor camps” • Initially, enemies with Hitler
Hitler • Takes over Germany in 1933 • 1936 ALLIANCE WITH ITALY • Mussolini • Takes over Rhineland, Austria, and Sudetenland by 1939 • Time Magazine man of Year in 1939 • Expands empire from 186,000 square miles to 225,000 square miles
Britain Responds • Britain assures Poland any invasion would mean war with Germany • Secretly Britain trying to get Poland to appease Germany • Germany invades Poland in 1939 • Officially starting WWII
The Manhattan Project Begins • Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner • Atomic Scientist • Jews, fled Germany • Meet Einstein in America • Needed to tell President of discovery • Three men send letter to FDR • Largest secret weapons project in history begins
America’s Road to War • Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact • Agreement not to attack each other • Germany free from two-front war • Hitler convinced no action will be taken by democracies • Sept. 1 1939 Hitler invades Poland • Using Blitzkrieg • Poland falls in 1 month • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ha0qKquG2E
War in Europe France and Britain Germany • Take part in a “sitzkrieg” • A sitter's war • Do not invade Germany, but are very defensive • Attack Denmark and Norway in April • Attack Belgium and Netherlands in March • Dunkirk • 300,000 troops evacuated from France • France surrenders by the end of June
The Two Sides Allied Axis • France • Great Britain • Italy • Germany • Japan
Bell Work • Explain Blitzkrieg in detail. • No puedoespararpara el sabado
WWII Continued • France defeat, Britain fears invasion • Winston Churchill • Prime Minister of England • Battle of Britain • Germans bomb air bases, shipyards, and industries, and cities • British RAF defeat the Germans in the sky, after months of fighting, Hitler calls off attack • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbv-x_cQ26I&feature=relmfu
Hitler Invades Russia? • Failure to invade Britain meant Hitler turns east on Russia • Operation Barbarossa • INVADES FOR RESOURCE • INVADES FOR “LIVING SPACE FOR GERMAN PEOPLE” • Russia has “scorched earth policy” • Destroy their own country
US REPSONDS TO THE WAR Prepare for war 1940 ELECTION • FDR Strengthens Navy • Passes “neutrality act” • Opens trade with warring nations if they pay cash • FDR signs “Selective Service and Training Act” • Peacetime • Ages 21-35 • FDR wins unprecedented third term
Bell Work • What were the reasons Hitler gave for invading Russia? What fighting tactic did Russia use? What does that tactic include?
U.S. Japan Relations • Post WWI • U.S. does not support British treaty with Japan • U.S. does not support the “Rape of Nanking” • U.S. places Oil Embargo on Japan in order to keep them from invading Indonesia . • Japan accidentally sinks U.S. boat killing 3, wounding 40
December 7th, 1941 • Early 1941, U.S. Japan engaged in peace talks • Pearl Harbor • Waves of Japanese Zeroes Swept in strike battle ship row • Sink 18 war ships; 180 aircraft • 2,403 America deaths; 1,178 wounded
U.S. Responds • American armed forces post Pearl Harbor • Army smaller than Romania • Navy destroyed by PH • U.S. declare war December 8, 1941 • Hitler, declares war on the U.S. December 11, 1941 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBWWZ-ZEydc&feature=relmfu
Bell Work • Identify • Dwight Eisenhower • George Patton • Operation Overlord • D-DAY • Harry Truman • Page 378
Wwii CONTINUED Chapter 12 SECTION 4
WWII Timeline • Allies take over Africa in 1943 • September 1943; • Allies take country of Sicily • Italians overthrow Benito Mussolini and surrender • Officially join WWII on the side of the allies
Bell Work • Name the 5 beaches in France that the allies attack. Which beaches were the United States responsible for?
Allies take France • Germans re-treat • “Champagne Campaign” • August 25th 1944 France is back in control by allies • Feeling was war would be over by Christmas • Leader of France • General Charles De Gaulle
Bell Work • Put these events in correct order • D-DAY • Hitler takes over the Sudetenland • Pearl Harbor • Invasion of Poland • Hitler Declares War on the U.S.
Bell Work • Where did the Battle of the Bulge take place? How many troops were fighting? Why were allies short of supplies and food?