WORLD WAR II

SOLs
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CAUSES OF WWII

Political instability & economic devastation

Depression High war debt owed by Germany High inflation Massive unemployment

Rise of Fascism
Fascism = total power is given to a dictator Germany Adolf Hitler Italy Benito Mussolini Japan Hideki Tojo *Became the Axis Powers (Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis)

Rise of Hitler
Nazi Party organized, 1920s
Nazi party largest in Germany, 1932

Hitler voted as chancellor, 1933 New parliament created

450, 000 members Larger than German army

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THE HOLOCAUST

Anti-Semitism Aryan supremacy Rid Europe of all Jews Tactics

Boycott of Jewish stores Threats Segregation Imprisonment and killing (concentration camps)

Liberation by Allied forces

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THE ALLIES

GREAT BRITAIN
Winston Churchill

UNITED STATES
Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman

CANADA
SOVIET UNION
Joseph Stalin

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CHANGE IN AMERICAN POLICY

ISOLATIONISM
Legacy of WWI

Great Depression

ECONOMIC AID TO THE ALLIES

DIRECT INVOLVEMENT IN THE WAR

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MAJOR EVENTS OF WWII

September 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland Germany invades France (captures Paris) Battle of Britain begins (bombing London) US aids Britain in return for bases Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, HI Germany declares war on US US declares war on Germany & Japan Battle of Midway turning point against Japan Germany invades Soviet Union
Battle of Stalingrad (turning point in Europe)

D-Day (Doomsday) invasion of Normandy Atomic Bombs dropped: Hiroshima & Nagasaki Japan surrenders (V-J Day)

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WAR IN THE PACIFIC

Japanese aggression in the East (China) December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor

U.S. attacked without warning

U.S. declared war on Japan Germany declared war on the United States

Pearl Harbor is attacked on Dec. 7, 1941

U. S. Involved In War

D-Day June 6, 1944 - Landing on Normandy Beach

Normandy Invasion, D-Day June 6, 1944

Allies United: U.S.S.R, England and The U.S.

Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, & Winston Churchill

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EFFECTS OF WWII

End to the Great Depression (war boom)

Women took jobs (Rosie the Riveter)

Conservation and Rationing of goods Racial barriers broken down (temporarily) Japanese Americans put in internment camps