By: Kelsey Behrens, Lanelle Thornhill,

and Becky Taylor

Rise of Nationalism

Rise of World War II

1939-1945

Causes of WWII

Causes of WWII

Causes of WWII

Causes of WWII

Causes of WWII

Uses of Propaganda

Axis Powers • The Nazi Perspective

“Demilitarized Germany”. The shaded areas are regions demilitarized under the Treaty of Versailles.

“Military expenditures by the Great Powers”. The chart to the left is per capita military expenditures. The chart to the right is military expenditures as a percentage of the overall budget. The chart suggests that Germany is being outspent by surrounding countries.

The text below the title reads: "Citizens! Do not believe that the Germany of misfortune and misery, the nation of corruption and usury, the land of Jewish corruption, can be saved by parties that claim to stand on a foundation of facts. Never!"

The caption reads: "Two million dead. Did they die in vain? Never! Front soldiers! Adolf Hitler is showing you the way!" The claim is that Hitler will redeem Germany from the loss of World War I.

• Japan’s view of the region before and what they thought would be afterward.

• From a Japanese propaganda booklet from World War II detailing the Imperial Army's plan for dominating the nations of the region

America

Allied Powers

• The first major film about America’s defeat in the Pacific, Wake Island, was portrayed as a victory because the heroics of Wake's defenders delayed the Japanese while America recovered from the Pearl Harbor attack.

Allied/Axis Military Strategies

Axis Power Strategies

Map of Movement of Allied and Axis Powers in World War II

Allied Strategies

Strategic Bombing

High Tech Warfare vs. Guerilla Warfare

High Tech Warfare

Destroying Enemies Weapons

Guerilla Warfare

Comparison of High Tech and Guerilla Warfare

Guerilla Warfare

High Tech Warfare

Women on the Home front

• America needed it's women to go to work to build the planes, tanks, and ships needed to fight Hitler. World War II, more so than any other war, was a war based on production.

Rosie the Riveter

Men and Women working side by side building bomber planes in factories.

Working Women

Women working as welders in a plant that produced B-25 and P-51 fighter planes.

Women accounted for one-third of Air Force pilots during WWII.

Women outside America

Thousands of Russian women volunteered as fighter pilots.

The ATS portrayed as glamorous to British women

Allied and Axis Atrocities

Malmedy Massacre

• They made memorial wall that list 84 names off the ones who died at the Malmedy Massacre.

• They were all executed by the German army.

The Dachau Massacre

The Holocaust and Genocide

Biscari Massacre

The League of Nations

The Formation of the UN

Peace: the Role of the UN

Effects of WWII

Effects of WWII

Effects of WWII

Effects of WWII

Effects of WWII

Counterpoint

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