World War II

Europe in the 1930s

Adolph Hitler
Rise because of WWI Criticized rather than submitted a plan for progress Forced his way into the chancellorship

Europe in the 1930s

Austria
Hitler threatened invasion Merged with Germany

Czechoslovakia
German-speaking area turned over Meeting in Munich
Peace declared

Non-aggression pact with Stalin

Germanys Attack in Europe

Polish invasion
Sept. 1, 1339 Blitzkrieg Warsaw Ghetto

"The Nazi occupation of Poland was horrific. Twenty percent of the Polish people died in forced labor, of hunger, or from fighting. Resistance was impossible. Even the feeblest opposition brought devastating, over-whelming reprisals. Drs. Lazowski and Matulewicz decided to resist anyway, and their solution was brilliant. They knew that the Germans were terrified of a typhus outbreak. So they injected dead typhus bacteria into various patients, then sent blood samples to the German authorities. The blood tested positive for typhus. The Germans conducted more tests, and most were also positive. The occupation authorities quarantined the area. The people were not deported for slave labor and German troops stayed away. Drs. Lazowski and Matulewics spared their neighbors the worst of World War II, because even impossible problems have solutions."
Thorpe, Scott, How to Think Like Einstein, Barnes & Noble Books, Inc., 2000, p. 127.

Germanys Attack in Europe

Denmark, Holland Norway (Quisling) Belgium and France
Dunkirk

Britain
Winston Churchill

Dunkirk

...We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end...We shall fight in the seas and oceans...We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landinggrounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender... Winston Churchill

We have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Winston Churchill

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, This was their finest hour. Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill

Germanys Attack in Europe

Balkans Russia US isolation

Maximum Axis Control (Sept 1942)

Allied Counterattacks in Europe

Soviet North Africa Italy Normandy Battle of the Bulge

Allied Counterattacks in Europe

Surrender
Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt

The Marshall Plan

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
Churchill, Winston, quoted in Thorpe, Scott, How to Think Like Einstein, Barnes & Noble Books, Inc., 2000, p.119.

Japans Invasion
China
Blockade

Pearl Harbor Southeast Asia

Allied Counterattacks in the Pacific

Midway Southeast Asia Island hopping Japanese main islands

Pacific War

Creativity
How was creativity affected by the war? What was the center of creativity?

"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine... War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman (quoted in John Keegan, A History of Warfare, 1993, 6)

If a man does his best, what else is there?

-General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

Thank You