WORLD WAR IIWORLD WAR II

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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)

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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

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

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Pearl Harboris attacked on Dec. 7, 1941

U. S. Involved In War

D-DayJune 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

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

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