world war ii
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WORLD WAR II
Prelude to War
Rome-Berlin Axis – 1936
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis 1937
Aggression and Appeasement Neville Chamberlain – main proponent
Hitler and Mussolini
Tojo
Why appeasement?
Avoid war
Guilt over Treaty of Versailles
Fear of communism
Popularity
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
Hitler’s Step Plan
1938 - Germany annexes Austria / Anschluss
Germany annexes the Sudetenland
German speaking regions The world appeases Hitler
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.
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
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
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
Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 America enters war
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
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.
Holocaust
Over 6,000,000 Jews were brutally killed
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.
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.
Atomic Bomb
Enola Gay
Atomic Bomb