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World War 2:

The World at War


Again

OBJ #1
Differences between the
Governments:
1.

Democracy: Individual Rights

Economic Rights: Capitalism:


Own Businesses, make $
Government Rights: Choose
(Elect) their own government
Examples: United States (FDR)/
Great Britain (Churchill)/
France (De Gaul)
* Can choose their President
and choose to go to war

2. Fascist: Dictatorship with Private


Business

Economic Rights: Capitalism: Own


Businesses, make $
Government Rights:Totalitarian/Dictatorship

a. One person or party leader


Examples: Germany/Italy/Japan
Gov. controls ALL information/
NO opposition

Adolph Hitler: Germany

Benito Mussolini: Italy

General Tojo: Japan

3. Communism: Good of

everyone.
* No individual
Economic Rights: NONE- all
owned by government
Government Rights:
Totalitarian/Dictatorship
a. One person or party
leader
Examples: Soviet Union (Russia)
Joseph Stalin

OBJ #2
Major Causes of
WW II in Europe:
Depression

after WW1:

1. Italy:
* Upset they didnt get more
land after WW1
Becomes 1st Fascist country
(Thinks Democracy is bad)
* 1922: Benito Mussolini
comes to power

2. Germany: (Fascist)
Going through Depression after
WW1(Reparation)
Citizens looking for someone to solve their
problem

* 1933- Hitler appointed as Chancellor of


Germany
*Forms NAZI party: outlaws all political
parties

Hitler blamed Germanys problems on:

1. Treaty of Versailles (Democracy


& Allies

Jewish People:
Master Race: Germans were Master
2.

Race and better than everyone

Jewish Jews were no longer German


citizens
* Took away Jews homes and businesses
Jews were
* Hitler builds German army,
forced to
wear the
violates the Treaty of Versailles
Yellow Star,
so everyone
knew they
were Jewish

Hitler Youth:

Anti-Semitic (Hates Jews), was taught


in the schools, and young boys joined
the Hitler Youth, and learned how to
become soldiers.

Posters were put up around


Germany to remind people
that Hitler was great, it was
Germanys natural right to
take over countries and Jews
were their enemy.

NAZI Propaganda:

Public opinion was


also formed by
newspaper, radio,
and newsreels

OBJ #3:

Hitlers Goal for Revenge:

Lebensraum: Living
Space for the Germans

a. Take land from non-Germans


b. German troops march into
Austria & Demand Sudetenland
c. Ask Britain and U.S. for help: They give
land to Germany to avoid war
d. Adds land and no fighting

APPEASEMENT: Give someone


what they want to make them
happy.

=>

Hitler Invades Poland: September 1, 1939

BLITZKRIEG: Lighting
War, use Modern Army, Tanks,

1. Uses

Planes: Move FAST and work together


* Destroys Poland
Soviet
Union

<=

=>POLAND

2.Britain & France declare


WAR
- Appeasement was a joke
-German-Soviet
Nonaggression Act-Hitler
had secret treaty with the
Hitler invaded
Soviets not to attack each After
France, they took over
other (they divide Poland) Paris.
3. Hitler invades France
(1940) and uses Blitzkrieg
and destroys France

4. Battle of Britain: Hitler attacks


Great Britain by air raids (Drops
Bombs)
* RAF (Royal Air Force) fights back
5 months
* Britain has Radar: new technology to
track planes
* Churchill: Never Surrender
5. Hitler takes over almost all of Europe
by 1941

United States:
- Neutral (no sides)
& Isolationist
(stay out of their
business)
- Roosevelt helps
Britain
* Lend Lease

Policy: Let G.B.


borrow
guns/boats

* U.S. builds up their


army

Alliances:

AXIS:
ALLIED:
* Germany *Great Britain
* Italy
* France
* Japan
*United States
* Soviet Union 1st with
Axis then with Allied

OBJ #4
Japans Expansion in to the Pacific:

A. Military takes control of Japan


General Tojo in real power
not Emperor
- Wants Japan to be equal to
European powers
- Believes they are better than
all other Asians-just like Germany
- Signs treaty with Germany
2. Invades China, Korea and British Colonies
- Murders millions of Chinese
3. Only competition in Pacific is U.S.
(Hawaii, Philippines)

Attacking the U.S.- Pearl

Harbor

U.S. stopped trading with Japan, upset with


U.S.
Dec. 7th, 1941: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- Goal to destroy the U.S. AIRCRAFT
CARRIERS
- Carriers out to sea, they survive
Surprise attack: 2,400 Americans killed
and 1,000 wounded
U.S. declares WAR
- Roosevelt:
A day that will live in infamy
- Germany declares war on U.S

OBJ #5:
The War at Home:

Factories and Farms Roar


Easy because there is no bombing

Women take factory jobs (Rosie the Riveter)

Ration Books: Coupons that limit


how much of anything you can
buy in one time

- Shoes, Tires, Sugar, Butter, Gas


- Some things not available
(Panty Hose)
Rosie the
Riveter
Poster

Selective Service:
Draft: Men 18-35 must serve if
called
WACs & WAVES- Army and

Navy women serve (Pilots &


Nurses)

Racism at home:
Japanese-Americans: After Pearl Harbor people
did not trust. Not Loyal? Spies?

Japanese Internment Camps: Put


Japanese into camps in America
* Lost homes, jobs, businesses
Roosevelt said ok
People worried about
another attack.

OBJ #6
Hitlers

Defeated in

Europe:
1. Hitler invades Soviet Union
* What about agreement?
a. Soviets are being killed
b. Germany strong at first, then
Winter comes: Not prepared
c. U.S. gives supplies and
Stalin is able to push Hitler
back (lost huge amounts of
men)
d. Hitler has to fight on both
sides (Soviet Union and
Great Britain)

2. The BIG 3 is formed


-

Winston Churchill (Great


Britain), FDR (U.S.) & Joseph
Stalin (Soviet Union)

3. Attack on Italy:
a. Allied Powers lead attack on Italy
b. Paratroopers land in Southern Italy
c. Mussolini overthrown by Italians
(killed and drug through street)

4. D-Day
(Normandy)
June 6, 1944

* Operation Overload
a. Germany occupied
France for 4 years (built
fortress
along coast)
b. Allies invade France
c. General Eisenhower
as Commander
* Wrote a letter of failure
just in case
d. Huge deadly
attack:dropped on beach
to face machine gun
e. 1 million more men in
France in 6 weeks

Germanys last
chance:
Battle of the
Bulge
- Germany
defeated but
huge battle
U.S. and Britain
bomb Germany
day and night
- Destroys factory
and supplies

6. V-E Day (Victory Europe)


1. Hitlers suicide- April 30, 1945
- Germany surrenders May 7th
- Soviets capture Berlin
* Start of Communism vs.
Democracy
Costs/ Deaths:
Britain
U.S.
Union
Soldiers: 303,000 322,000
Civilians: 85,000 0

Germany
7.5 million
20 million

Soviet
3.5 million
2 million

OBJ #7:
U.S. Island Hopping to defeat
Japan:
- General McArthur leads
attacks:1942
- Japanese fight to the death:
*** Kamikaze- Suicide pilots
* Battle of Midway and Iwo Jima

The BOMB: Hiroshima &


Nagasaki
Manhattan Project::
Secret project to build Atomic
Bomb
Einstein told Roosevelt
aboutGermany Need a way to
end the war
Japanese will fight to the
death
Truman warns Japan:
Total destruction

August 6, 1945: Hiroshima


Enola Gay dropped Little Boy

August 9, 1945: Nagasaki


Fat Man is dropped
110,000 killedplus radiation
deaths later

Nagasaki 2 days before the


bomb

Nagasaki 3 days after


the bomb

Japan

surrenders:
Aug. 14, 1945 (V-J
Day)
U.S. takes over
Japan and forms new
government
Deaths: Japan:
Almost 2 million

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