Treaty of Versailles

Hitler’s Rise in Power

Failure of Appeasement

WWII Began September 1939

1919 Italy & U.S. meet

Plans for Germany to pay off WWI

Italy & U.S. disagree

Germany angrily signed it

Versailles Terms

War guilt clause

Reparations

Disarmament

Territorial Clause

Vowed to “tear apart” V. Treaty

Became Chancellor of Germany Jan 1933

1934 began building army

1936 started invasions

Give Sudetenland back to Germany

Previous Czech gov’t land

Agreement meant “peace in our time”

Hitler invaded Czech 1939 (broke agreement)

Would not trade with countries @ war

1941 repealed Neutrality Act

Could work W/ any country who provided defense

Japan invades Manchuria

U.S cuts off trade

Japan invades British/Dutch colonies

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

Sunday, December 7th, 1941

Japan surprise attacks the U.S

2,335 Servicemen killed

68 Civilians killed

1,104 wounded

Hesitant to enter

Pearl Harbor attack launched U.S into WWII

U.S arrived Jan 1942

Didn’t see action till July 1942

President Roosevelt, Churchill and Joesph Stalin

Discussed D-Day Strategy

Concluded December 1st

August 6th & 9th, Hiroshima & Nagasaki

1945 first Atomic Bomb Attack

Nagasaki bombing ended war w/ Japan

Evacuation of big cities

Rationed food & clothes

Women enter the work force

Teenagers enter work force

Called to take over jobs done by men

Same jobs, less money

Going from kitchen to the factory

Also had military jobs

Mussolini’s Death April 1945

Hitler’s Death April 1945

German Forces Start to Surrender May 1945

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