WORLD WAR 2How did aggressive world powers emerge, and what did it take to

defeat them in World War 2?

The gates of Auschwitz…Reads “Work will set you free”

Totalitarianism

Germany: Hitler and the National socialist Regime (NAZI)

Italy: Mussolini, fascist leader Spain: Francisco Franco, led

revolt, backed by Hitler Japan: Hideki, overran Eastern

China and Manchuria

Picasso’s Guernica!

Response to the Spanish Civil War and Germany’s bombing of the city of Guernica.

Causes of WW2

Appeasement – giving in to the demands of an

aggressor

Unchecked aggression – when Japan, Italy and Germany moved in on, or annexed their neighbors the aggression was “tolerated” or barely sanctioned by the Allies.

Why?

Neutrality-trying to not pick sides

Pacifism-opposition to all war

The HOLOCAUST!

The resettlement, imprisonment and eventual killing of 11-12 million men, women and children including:

6 million Jews 2 million Soviet prisoners of war Disabled , elderly and enemies of Nazi

party Homosexuals Jehovah’s Witness Gypsies

Cremation ovens at Auschwitz

The Axis Advance

Nazi’s invade Poland 1939..Britain and France

Declare war on Germany Nazi-Soviet Pact insures Germany a

chance to further invade Europe THE BLITZ!! 57 day bombing of England…

Churchill rallies the people to stand up to tyranny, Germany’s Operation Sea Lion fails!

Germany invades Soviet Union

The U.S. enters the war

December 7, 1941, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Dec 8, 1941 President Roosevelt announces the U.S. declaration of war.

Battle of Midway

June 1942 U.S. Navy destroyed 4 Japanese aircraft carriers, putting theJapanese on the defensive.

D-Day June 6 1944

The Plan was to drop paratroopers inland, bomb the turrets on the beach head at Normandy via air strikes, soften the coast by bombing it from battleships and then land 130,000 Canadian, British and American troops.

The weather was overcast and many of the targets were missed; however, the Allies took the beaches of Normandy by nightfall.

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The Battle of the Bulge

December 1944-January 1945, Belgium…Hitler’s last push to fight Allied forces.

Massive losses on both sides eventually result in an Allied victory and marks the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany

Hitler would eventuallycommit suicide and GermanyWould surrender

The Manhattan Project

Code name for the project to build an Atomic Weapon

First tested in July 1945 in New Mexico FDR died April 12, 1945 The New President, Harry S. Truman

decides to use the weapon to force the surrender of Japan.

August 1945…a warning is issued to Japan and responded to with defiance…

The Japanese Defeat

The Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right)