introduction to wwii
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Introduction to WWII. When?. 1939-1945 US involvement 1941-1945. 1939. 1941. 1945. Sept. 3 -Britain & France declare war on Germany. Dec. 7 – Japan bombs Pearl Harbor; US enters the War. May - Germans Surrender. Sept. - Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Japanese Surrender. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Introduction to WWII
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When?
1939
Sept.1 - Germany invades Poland (official start to the war)
Sept. 3 -Britain &
France declare war on
Germany
Dec. 7 – Japan
bombs Pearl Harbor; US enters the
War
1941
May - Germans Surrende
r
Sept. - Atomic
Bombing of
Hiroshima &
Nagasaki,
Japanese Surrende
r
1945
•1939-1945
•US involvement 1941-1945
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Who?
Allies Axis
Great Britain
France(note: France surrendered to
Germany in 1940 (after 6 weeks of
fighting)
United States
Soviet Union
German
yItaly
Japan
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Major Leaders
Adolf HitlerNazi Germany
Benito MussoliniItaly
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Major Leaders
Hideki TojoJapanese Prime Minister
Winston ChurchillBritish Prime Minister
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Major Leaders
Franklin Delano RooseveltUS President
Joseph StalinRussian Leader
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Why? 1. Treaty of Versailles
A. Germany lost land to surrounding nationsB. War Reparations-Allies collect $ to pay back war debts to U.S.-Germany must pay $57 trillion (modern equivalent)-Bankrupted the German economy & embarrassed Germans
Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and Woodrow Wilson
during negotiations for the Treaty
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Why? 2. World-wide Depression
A. The Depression made Germany’s debt even worseB. Desperate people turn to desperate leaders-Hitler
seemed to provide solutions to Germany’s problems
1923 - Wallpapering with German Deutchmarks
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Why? 2. World-wide Depression
C. Hitler provided scapegoats for Germany’s problems (foreigners, Jews, communists, Roma (Gypsies), mentally ill, homosexuals)
-Kristallnacht - vandalism & destruction of Jewish property & synagogues
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Why?3. Rise of Totalitarian Regimes
A. In a Totalitarian country, individual rights are not viewed as important as the needs of the
nation
Totalitarianism
Communist Dictatorship
(USSR)
Fascist Dictatorship
(Germany, Italy)
Military Dictatorship
(Japan)
Fascism: military government with based on racism & nationalism with strong
support from the business communi
ty
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Why?4. Isolationism of Major Powers
A. Why was the U.S. Isolationist?
i. Great Depression (problems at home)
ii. Perceptions of WWI
-did not seem to solve much
-people began to think that we’d got into WWI for the wrong reasons
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Why?4. Isolationism of Major Powers
iii. Opposition to war (Pacifism)
Kellogg-Briand pact - condemned war as a way to solving conflicts
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Why?4. Isolationism of Major Powers
B. This led to policies of “Appeasement”
i. Appeasement: give dictators what they want and hope that they won’t want anything elseii. Begins with Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Italian invasion of Ethiopia, and continues with Hitler . . .
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The Rise - Third Reich The Rise & Fall
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