World War II

1938 - 1945

The War Begins

• Italy• Benito Mussolini• Fascism• Nationalism• Invaded other countries

The War Begins

• Germany• Adolph Hitler • Met an unmet need• Nazi Party• Invaded other

countries

The War Begins

• Japan• Hideki Tojo • “American interference”• Wanted more power• Invaded other countries

Who were the Axis Powers?

• The Axis were a group who planned on ruling the world, and having the world be populated entirely by their “perfect race.”

• They formed an alliance (there’s that word again!) to strengthen each country’s own desire for more power and control (imperialism, militarism, nationalism – again!)

Who were the Allied Powers?

• The Allied Powers were a group of countries who planned to stop the Axis Power’s attempt to take over the world.

The United States Reacts

National Defense at any Expense

but

Keep Our Boys at Home

The United States Reacts

• Neutrality Acts– No passage on ships belonging to warring

nations– No loans or credit to warring nations

• Lend-Lease Act– Federal gov’t power– Lend or rent military goods– $50 billion

Pearl Harbor

The War Begins

• F.D.R. (1882-1945) • 32nd President of the

United States – longer than any other,

also was the President during World War Two.

– Died eighty- three days after being elected for the fourth time.

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D-Day

• June 6, 1944• Omaha Beach,

Normandy, France• 600 ships• 175,000 Allied

soldiers• 11,000 airplanes

Concentration Camps

V – E Day

The Pacific Theater

MidwayIwo Jima

Atomic Bomb

V – J Day

• Victory in Japan

• August 14, 194520 million killed worldwide

• 400,000 Americans

• 21 million victims– Orphans– Prisoners– Survivors of Nazi concentration camps– Refugees from war-torn areas

Georgia’s Contribution to the War

• 300,000 Georgia men and women

• 7,000 died

• Women served as nurses, clerks, and pilots

B-29s

• Bell Aircraft

• Marietta, GA

• 28,000 jobs

• 6,000 women

Liberty Ships

• 447-foot long

• Brunswick 16,000 jobs

• Savannah

• 200 ships built

Military Training

• Camp Stewart (Fort Stewart)

• Camp Gordon

• (Fort Gordon)

• Fort Benning

• Warner Robins Air Force Base

The Impact of the War at Home

• German attacks at St. Simons Island

• Victory Gardens

The Impact of the War at Home

• Ration cards

• Racial tension