WWII Picture Review

Picture Review

#1 Describe the Causes of WWII.• (Review your quiz from Chapter 16!!!)

The Rise of Dictators • Causes by Economic Problems• Led to intense military build-ups & nationalism

The Treaty of Versailles• Causes Germany to seek revenge• Hurt world trade

Militaristic Expansion• Invasions

#2 Discuss the major events and strategies in the War in Europe• (Review your quiz from Chapter 17!!!)

Hitler takes the continent.• Blitzkrieg • Fall of France - Britain barely survives.

North Africa – Operation Torch (Eisenhower)

Stalingrad• Turning point on the Eastern Front

D-Day - Turning point in Western Europe Battle of the Bulge

• Germany’s last offensive – Why the bulge?

#3 Discuss the major events and strategies in the War in the Pacific

Japan makes an empire.• Invasion of China• Attacks on U.S.

Doolittle’s Raid – Morale Builder Battle of Midway – Turning Point Island Hopping – War Strategy Battles of Iwo Jima & Okinawa

• Significance – What did it teach the U.S.? Atomic Bombings

• When & Where

#4 Describe the effects of WWII on the homefront.

Production Miracle• Ended what?• War Towns• Industrial Advantage

Internment Camps Race Relations & Migration Women in the Workforce Hollywood’s contribution Mobilization of Scientist

Economic Problems

Germany (Hitler), Italy (Mussolini), & Japan (Tojo)

Isolation, Neutrality, Sympathetic toward France & Britain

The Munich Pact

Soviet Union (Stalin)

The Anschluss (union with Austria)1938

The Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)

France (1940)

Britain

Pearl Harbor & the PhilippinesDec. 7 & 8th, 1941

Brutal march of American and Filipino POW’s across the Philippines.

Sent 110,000 to internment camps

Focus on defeating Germany first

The ability of American workers to make more planes/ships than the enemy could shoot down/sink

and the way America was relieved from the depression.

George Marshall

He encouraged Roosevelt to end discrimination in war time jobs through an execute order and

creation of the Fair Employment Act.

To celebrate the 6 million women who joined the workforce through a “cultural icon.”

Nisei 442nd

The Tuskegee Airmen

Operation Torch in North Africa led by General Dwight Eisenhower

Russia lost over 1 million soldiers but turned the Germans back into a retreat toward Germany.

June 6, 1944

Operation Overlord

Normandy, France

The allies gained the supremacy of the seas in the Atlantic to free up shipping lines.

Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, Omar Bradley

It was Germany’s last offensive

They discriminated against Jewish people similar to Jim Crow laws in the U.S.

Genocide

They were brutal land battles that showed how tough an invasion would be on the Japanese homeland.

General Douglas MacArthur

Navajo Native AmericansSpoken language only used in the U.S.

May 8, 1945

The massive undertaking by scientist to make the Atomic Bomb

The atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Hiroshima – August 6, 1945Nagasaki – August 9, 1945

August 14, 1945

Nazi war criminals were put on trial by an international court.