The Road to World War II

HUSH Take Five for Pat Points…

Why didn’t the League of Nations work?

HUSH Take Five for Pat Points

What were the reasons for the US not joining the League of Nations? Were we correct?

Foreign Policy in the New Era (1919-1932)Fragile World Peace

League of NationsHenry Cabot Lodge

Washington Conference of 1921Sec. of State Charles HughesFive-Power PactKellogg-Briand Pact

European DebtDawes Plan

Hoover’s Foreign PolicyEuropean nationalism

Benito MussoliniNational Socialist (NAZI) Party

Adolf Hitler

Benito Mussolini

Adolf Hitler

FDR’s Foreign Policy (1933---)World Economic Conference

European debts

U.S.-Soviet-Union relationship

Latin America

“Good-neighbor” policy

Inter-American Conference

Isolationism

Father Coughlin & William Randolph Hearst

Neutrality Acts (1935, 1936, 1937)

Rise of FascismThe Formation of the Axis Coalition

Japanese aggression

Panay

German aggression in Europe

Appeasement

Austrian invasion

Lebensraum

Sudetenland

Munich Agreement

British Prime Minister: Chamberlain: we have achieved “peace in our time”

Violation of the Treaty of Versailles

Jews fleeing Germany

Nazi-Soviet Agreement

Nonaggression PactJoseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

European Expansion (1939-1941)

Germany invades Poland

U.S.S.R. invades Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Finland

Italy invades North Africa and the Balkans

Polish “blitzkreig”

A Divided Europe

Allied powers

Great Britain and its Empire, France

Axis powers

Germany, Italy and Japan

The “Phony” WarAnticipation…anxiety…nothing…

Preparation along the Maginot Line“Blitzkreig”

Scandinavia, Denmark, NorwayLow Countries

Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and BelgiumOutflanking the Maginot Line

German fighter plane

Increased German Aggression

“Blitzkrieg”The fall of France

Vichy FrancePhilippe Pe’tain

DunkirkFree French Resistance

Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle’s Free French

Wounded in WWII

Fleeing Paris

War Destruction

Appeal of Great Britain

Battle of Britain

Winston Churchill

U.S. lifts the arms embargo

U.S. Destroyers

Winston Churchill

Pat Points…

Why did the US enter WWII? Who was the “Desert Fox”? What was so important to the allies in the

middle east to protect?

U.S. Public Opinion-Isolationists vs. Preparedness

Burke-Wadsworth Act

American First Committee

Lend-lease Act

The role of the British Empire

Dominion states come to Great Britain’s aid

Canada, New Zealand, Australia, S. Africa and India.

Materials and troops for the war effort

The British Empire stands alone

North Africa

Fighting against the Italians

General Rommel

Egypt-protecting the Suez Canal

Fighting against the Germans

General Rommel

Continued German Aggression

Invasion and control of Eastern EuropeHungary, Romania & BulgariaInvasion of Yugoslavia Sending German troops to Greece

Invasion of the U.S.S.R.Breaking the non-aggression pactOperation Barbarossa

“scorched earth policy”Soviet winter

The Road to War

German expansion

Invasion of the Soviet Union

Submarine warfare

Reuben James

Atlantic Charter

Tripartite Pact

Germans in Stalingrad

The U.S. Enters the War

Japanese Aggression in the PacificAttack on Pearl Harbor

Admiral YamamotoAttack of Guam, Wake Island, Malaya &

SingaporeU.S. Declaration of War

Japanese internment campsU.S. Publicity campaign

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Japanese “Zero”

U.S. Declaration of War

Off to War

A War on Three Fronts

EuropeStalingrad

North African OffensiveGeorge S. PattonGeneral MontgomeryGeneral Rommel

The Pacific Battle of Bataan

Death March“island-hopping”

Battle of Midway Guadalcanal

Dolittle Tokyo Raids

U.S. Tank Division

U.S. “Ace” in WWII—Maj. Richard Bong=40 “kills”

Gen. Montgomery in N. Africa

Guadalcanal

Turning point of the war (1943-1945)Allied offensive in Europe

Casablanca ConferenceAir raidsBattle of KurskInvasion of ItalyD-Day

The Normandy InvasionReconquest of BelorussiaLiberation of FranceBattle of the Bulge

U.S. B-17 “Flying Fortress”

The Normandy Invasion

D-Day Troops

General Eisenhower at Operation Overlord

U.S. Destroying Romania Oil fields

Plot against Hitler

Gestapo

SS Officers

Hitler sends his sympathies

Other world events

The Death of FDR

President Harry S. Truman

Bringing an End to the War

Allied forces invade Germany

Berlin

VE Day

Hitler’s suicide

Allied offensive in the Pacific

Iwo Jima and OkinawaKamikaze

The development of the atomic bombManhattan Project

General Leslie GrovesAlbert Einstein

Truman’s ultimatum to JapanHiroshima

Enola GayNagasakiVJ Day

Iwo Jima

“Kamikaze raids”

Atomic Bomb

The Mushroom Cloud

V-J Day-Japan Surrenders

Take Five…

Was it necessary for Truman to drop the second bomb on Japan in WWII? Why or why not?

The American Homefront-A New ProsperityWartime production

Labor shortages“maintenance of membership”wildcat strikesSmith-Connally Act 1943

Fear of inflationAnti-Inflation Act 1942Revenue Act of 1942War Production Board

Donald Nelson

Take Five

Describe the home front during WWII. What jobs were women and other minorities doing? What happened to the Hispanic population during WWII—they were deported during the Great Depression…

Minorities in the War…

HispanicsZoot Suit RiotsBraceros

Japanese AmericansJapanese Internment Camps

Chinese AmericansNative Americans

“Code- Talkers”African Americans

Women in the war

“Rosie the Riveter”

Women in the Military

Decline of the family

“Baby boomers”

“Victory Bonds”

Rosie the Riveter

The Homefront (con’t)

Entertainment and Leisure

Rationing for the cause

Swing clubs, movies

and magazines

Costs of the war

Human causalities

Financial costs

Overall results of the war

Take Five…

Do you think that you could be convinced to “break the rules” or harm someone if someone in authority told you that it was acceptable?

The Holocaust

Balfour DeclarationKristallnacht “Night of the Broken Glass”The Wannsee ConferenceConcentration camps

AuschwitzResistance, Hiding and Jewish sympathizers

Oskar SchindlerOther Nazi atrocitiesHolocaust denial

Auschwitz-”Hell’s Gate”

Nazi “Doctors”

Destroying Evidence

Nuremberg Trials

16 Doctors were found guilty

7 convicted to death

Japanese Atrocities

Mass executions (China)

Torture of P.O.W.’s

Bataan Death March

Soviet Atrocities

Torture of Poles

NKVD

Labor Camps