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World War II

World War II. 1939 - 1945. Totalitarian Governments. Italy – Fascist Party - Benito Mussolini - 1923 Il Duce – The Leader Blackshirts Restore Italy to glory days of Roman Empire Germany – Adolf Hitler Nazi Party Der Fuhrer – The Leader

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World War II

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  1. World War II 1939 - 1945

  2. Totalitarian Governments • Italy – Fascist Party - Benito Mussolini - 1923 • Il Duce – The Leader • Blackshirts • Restore Italy to glory days of Roman Empire • Germany – Adolf Hitler • Nazi Party • Der Fuhrer – The Leader • Beer Hall Putsch 1923 – attempts to take over govt. • In jail, writes Mein Kampf (My Struggle) • Consolidates power (over Weimar Republic) • Brown Shirts (Private Army) Blackshirts Gestapo (Heinrich Himmler) • Chancellor in 1933 • Terror and intimidation; propaganda (Joseph Goebbels), Hitler youth, education, media

  3. USSR & Japan • Joseph Stalin (Man of Steel) • Control over industry, farms • Millions die under forced labor, collective farms, prisons • Japan – Emperor Hirohito • Heideki Tojo – military • Invades Manchuria, China, • Territorial expansion

  4. Europe Goes to War • 1. 1936 - German troops occupy the Rhineland • 2. 1938 – Germany annexes Austria – Anschluss • 3. Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) • Germany needs lebenstraum • Munich 1938 – appeasement • Neville Chamberlain gives in • 4. Germany takes rest of Czech.

  5. 5. Germany signs non-aggression pact (Nazi-Soviet Pact) with USSR 1939 6. Sept. 1, 1939 – Germany invades Poland WWII begins Europe Goes to War

  6. Europe Goes to War • Blitzkrieg (“lightening war”) • Hitler crushes Poland • Stalin takes half of Poland for USSR (communist) • French build up Maginot Line - defenses • April 9, 1940 – Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium fall • Takes Paris on June 14, 1940 • Evacuation (“Miracle”) at Dunkirk to England

  7. Battle of Britain Luftwaffe vs. Royal Air Force (RAF) Great acts of individual bravery June 1940 – June 1941 – 30,000 Londoners killed Winston Churchill rallies England Hitler’s first defeat War cont.

  8. Americans Debate • Was WWI a mistake? • Was it about big industries making money off war? • Isolationists debate the interventionists • Neutrality Act 1939 • Cash & carry – nations could buy from U.S. if they paid cash & used own ships (pro ally) • Lend Lease Act - loans to allies • Atlantic Charter – deepening alliance w/Britain; self determination of nations, United Nations plan • Hitler orders attacks on U.S. ships

  9. Japan • Japan Builds an Empire • Invades Manchuria; other Pacific Islands 30’s & 40’s • American Response • FDR moves Pacific fleet to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii • Threatens Japan’s expansion • America remains neutral • Embargo; Japanese assets frozen • Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor • December 7, 1941 – “a date which will live in infamy” • U.S. enters World War II

  10. Pearl Harbor

  11. German General Erwin Rommel – “Desert Fox” Leads Afrika Corps Panzer units (tanks) Defeated by GB at Battle of El Alamein George Patton takes Sicily; North Africa “Bloody Anzio”, Italy Italy surrenders Mussolini killed by anti-fascists Fighting in Italy and North Africa

  12. 3.6 million Germans attack in 1941 Operation Barbarossa Scorched earth policy Bitter winter Battle of Stalingrad Red Army launches massive assault; victory for USSR Turning point in war War in the Soviet Union

  13. Build up of troops in GB D-Day (June 6, 1944) Operation Overlord Largest landing force in history invades Normandy, France Dwight D. Eisenhower – Supreme Allied Commander Battle of the Bulge 1944 – Hitler’s last chance to defend Germany Costly for U.S. Patton stops Germans Invasion of Western Europe

  14. The Soviets Advance Move on Berlin U.S. moves from west Soviets move from east Soviets take Berlin in April 1945 Germany Surrenders Hitler commits suicide on May 1, 1945 Germany surrenders on May 8, 1945 V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) War Ends in Europe

  15. The Yalta Conference Stalin, Churchill, and FDR (the big three) make postwar plans Potsdam Conference Divided Germany (4 zones) Stalin promised to enter war in the Pacific War Ends in Europe cont.

  16. The Japanese advance The Philippines fall General Macarthur forced to leave (“I shall return”) Bataan Death March The Battle of Coral Sea First aircraft carrier battle Prevented attack of Australia War in the Pacific

  17. Allied victories turn the tide The Battle of Midway Destroy Jap. ships Iwo Jima and Okinawa Key victories Kamikaze fighters Island hopping to Japan War in the Pacific

  18. The Manhattan Project – secret project to develop an atomic bomb Los Alamos FDR dies – Truman makes decision to drop the bomb August 6, 1945 - “Little Boy” dropped on Hiroshima August 9, 1945 - “Fat Man” dropped on Nagasaki Sept. 2, 1945 – Japan signs surrender War Ends in Pacific

  19. Hiroshima

  20. Japanese Internment Japanese/Americans rounded Up and put in camps during WWII Executive Order 1066

  21. Soviet and American troops come upon Nazi concentration camps World begins to learn about the Holocaust Genocide Liberation

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