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WORLD WAR II
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Prelude to War
Rome-Berlin Axis – 1936
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis 1937
Aggression and Appeasement Neville Chamberlain – main proponent
Hitler and Mussolini
Tojo
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Why appeasement?
Avoid war
Guilt over Treaty of Versailles
Fear of communism
Popularity
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Undermining the Treaty of Versailles
1933 - Hitler begins to rearm, privately at first, but then publicly in 1935
Italy invades Ethiopia – 1935
Spanish Civil War 1936 Francisco Franco
1936 - Remilitarizes the Rhineland
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Hitler’s Step Plan
1938 - Germany annexes Austria / Anschluss
Germany annexes the Sudetenland
German speaking regions The world appeases Hitler
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Munich Conference At the Munich conference, it’s decided that Hitler
can keep the land he has annexed, BUT
In return, Hitler promised: 1. He was not interested in other territories in
Europe. 2. In the future, he would consult Britain before
he made any further moves.
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Line in the sand…
Czechoslovakia
Munich Pact Broken Realization that Hitler can’t be trusted
Poland In 1939, Hitler hints at invading Poland To appease or not to appease?
April 1939 – Britain promises Poland aid if invasion occurs
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Hitler’s Betrayal
Pact of Steel – May 1939
Non-Aggression Pact – August 1939
Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939
Great Britain and France declared war on Germany
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Blitzkrieg
Hitler used a new type of tactic called “lightening war” or blitzkrieg
Maginot Line
Dunkirk
Fall of France – June 1940 Vichy
Battle of Britain – July 1940
Invasion of Russia – June 1941
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Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 America enters war
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Turning Points of the War
Stalingrad (42 – 43)
Italy knocked out of the war 1943
D – Day – the invasion at Normandy - 1944
Battle of the Bulge -1944
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Germany loses it’s leader
April 30,1945, Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide
The Soviet forces got to Berlin first.
The Allied powers discover concentration camps and the horrors they entail.
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Holocaust
Over 6,000,000 Jews were brutally killed
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Japan
Japan refuses to surrender, in spite of the loss of their allies.
Manhattan Project – 1942 Robert Oppenheimer
Harry Truman decided to use the bombs on Japan to prevent loss of American lives.
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Atomic Bomb
Aug. 6, 1945 Enola Gay “Little Boy” Hiroshima - center of war industries.
August 9, 1945 “Fat Man” Nagasaki
August 14, 1945 Japan surrendered.
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Atomic Bomb
Enola Gay
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Atomic Bomb