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WWII

WWII . Terms, People and Battles. Appeasement. Appeasement: “negotiation” to avoid a war; policy approach to avoid war by making concessions to another country 19 reasons for Appeasement. Appeasement. America First Committee Likely largest formal anti-war group in US history

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WWII

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  1. WWII Terms, People and Battles

  2. Appeasement

  3. Appeasement: “negotiation” to avoid a war; policy approach to avoid war by making concessions to another country • 19 reasons for Appeasement Appeasement

  4. America First Committee • Likely largest formal anti-war group in US history • Prominent members include: Walt Disney, Gerald Ford and John Kennedy (future Presidents) and Sinclair Lewis • Charles Lindbergh is the most prominent spokesman for the group. He blamed Britain, President Roosevelt and the Jews for trying to pull America into the war. • Group is disbanded on Dec 11, 1941. Why? Isolationism

  5. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact - The 1939 Agreement Between Hitler and Stalin • Katyn Massacre • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6pfczwJAbE Non-aggression Pact

  6. *Poland … • Sept 1939 • (Divided G & USSR) • *Denmark Norway • (April 1940) • *France, Belgium, Netherlands • (May 1940) • No Maginot Line • Armistice June 22 Blitzkrieg

  7. Battle of Britain (July-Sept 1940) • German attempt at air superiority • Turning point in the war • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZnFo7JORo&feature=fvsr (7:30)

  8. YouTube - Battle of Britain Newsreels • While you watch this short clip, write down the statements made to make the people of England feel good about what is happening. Battle of Britain

  9. YouTube - Winston churchill "finest hour" Winston Churchill

  10. Originally scheduled for spring Win quickly before winter? Advance quickly but stopped in early winter (1st time stopped) *Germans unprepared Invasion of Russia

  11. Dec 7, 1941 • Attack Philippines • Advance on Malaya & Dutch West Indies • Spring 1942 • Almost all SE Asia & W. Pacific • (Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity sphere) • Hitler declares war on US 4 days later Pearl Harbor

  12. YouTube - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Pearl Harbor Address Franklin Roosevelt

  13. YouTube - Japanese Internment Camps During WWII • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_rk3RP5KQs&feature=related Internment Camps

  14. North Africa

  15. North Africa

  16. After France falls in 1940…Axis controlled most of Western Europe • N.Africa strategic back door into Europe Axis…possible access to Suez & ME Oil If Germans can break through… • Cut off oil supply • Cut off access to India • Threaten USSR southern Flank http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXnZJX4pN74 BBC - History - World Wars: Animated Map: The North African Campaign North Africa

  17. 1942 Tide Turns in the East.(Battle of Coral Sea) • U.S navy stops Japanese advance • Saves Australia from invasion Turning Point in Asian War…(Battle of Midway) • U.S destroys 4 Japanese aircraft carriers • Establishes naval superiority in Pacific http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhdHZIj76WE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8FEwT5ufBs&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxkjowdnQ2g&feature=related Island Hopping…Pacific Theater

  18. By Fall of 1942 Allied Forces Prepare 2 operations… • MacArthur…to Philippines via New Guinea and South Pacific Islands • Move across Pacific (Army/Navy/Marine) attack Japanese held island *Capture islands…hop to Japan Island Hopping…Pacific Theater

  19. Midway/Island Hopping

  20. Pacific Theatre

  21. By 1943…Axis in Tunisia surrender in May Cross Mediterranean…take war to Italy Allies take Sicily..head for mainland Mussolini Removed from power… but restored by Germans Mussolini set up as puppet of German state in N.Italy Painstaking affair with many casualties Italy

  22. Rome doesn’t fall until June 4, 1944 • By that time…only a secondary role in war More Importantly… • Since 1943 Allies planning attack across English Channel • June 6, 1944…under Dwight d Eisenhower Allied land on beaches of Normandy

  23. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6pfczwJAbE • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqSg7WO4tT4 D Day

  24. Battle of the Bulge

  25. Battle of the Bulge

  26. The Holocaust The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime

  27. Kamikaze

  28. Little Boy (Hiroshima August 6th) • followed byfat Man (Nagasaki August 9th) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9odsuIcUk5w Atomic Bomb

  29. Hiroshima

  30. Atomic Aftermath

  31. Atomic Aftermath

  32. Harry Truman 1945-1953

  33. Yalta

  34. Nuremberg Trialshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsOpcMFkrFs

  35. Economic: • Cost $1 trillion with $230 billion of property damage; • Europe and Asia devastated; • Communist systems in place in USSR and eastern Europe WWII Results

  36. Social: • 51 million dead; • 34 million wounded • Millions of refugees WWII Results

  37. Political: • Germany, Italy and Japan totally defeated; • US and Russia are world powers- Cold War begins; • Eastern Europe becomes Russian satellite; • Asia and Africa begin to throw out Imperialistic powers. WWII Results

  38. Political Cont’d • Great Britain and France relinquish parts of empires; • Control of atomic power is major issue; • United Nations formed; • US assumes world leadership. WWII Results

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