World War II

Setting the Stage

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Questions to
discuss

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Questions to
discuss

How do you define

justice and, given this
definition, is ours a just
society?

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Questions to
discuss

How do you define

justice and, given this
definition, is ours a just
society?

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Questions to
discuss

How do you define

justice and, given this
definition, is ours a just
society?

What, if anything,
justifies armed conflict?
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Second World War

Allies vs. Axis Powers

Italy, Germany and Japan form Axis

Revisionists: wished to revise post-World War I

peace treaties

Allies initially follow policy of appeasement

War erupts 1939, global by 1941, over 1945

Setting the Stage:

Japans War in China

Conquest of Chinese Manchuria 1931-1932

Full-scale invasion in 1937

The Rape of Nanjing

Ariel bombing of urban center

400,000 Chinese used for bayonet

practice, massacred

7,000 women raped

1/3 of all homes destroyed

Japan signs Tripartite Pact with Germany,

Italy (1940), Non-Aggression Pact with
USSR (1941)
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Setting the Stage: Japans War in China

Conquest of Chinese Manchuria 1931-1932

Full-scale invasion in 1937

The Rape of Nanjing

Ariel bombing of urban center

400,000 Chinese used for bayonet practice, massacred

7,000 women raped

1/3 of all homes destroyed

Japan signs Tripartite Pact with Germany, Italy (1940), Non-Aggression Pact with USSR (1941)

Setting the Stage: Japans War in China

Conquest of Chinese Manchuria 1931-1932

Full-scale invasion in 1937

The Rape of Nanjing

Ariel bombing of urban center

400,000 Chinese used for bayonet practice, massacred

7,000 women raped

1/3 of all homes destroyed

Japan signs Tripartite Pact with Germany, Italy (1940), Non-Aggression Pact with USSR (1941)

Setting the Stage:

Italian Agression

Benito Mussolini invades

Ethiopia with overpowering
force

2,000 Italian troops killed,

275,000 Ethiopians killed

Also takes Libya, Albania

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Setting the
Stage: Germany

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Setting the
Stage: Germany

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

withdraws from League of
Nations
Remilitarizes Germany
Anschluss (Union) with
Austria, 1938
Pressure on Sudetenland
(Czechoslovakia)

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Setting the
Stage: Germany

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Setting the
Stage: Germany

September 1, 1939
Blitzkrieg: lightning war
strategy
Air forces soften up target,
armored divisions rush in
German U-boats (submarines)
patrol Atlantic, threaten British
shipping

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World War II Major Fronts

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Where Do We
Start?

EUROPE

NORTH AFRICA

ASIA (PACIFIC)

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Where Do We
Start?

EUROPE

NORTH AFRICA

ASIA (PACIFIC)

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FRONTS

EUROPE:
ALLIES TAKE ON GERMANY:
GOAL: TO DEFEAT THEM

PACIFIC:
DEFENSIVE
DEFEAT NAZIS FIRST

European
Front
April 29, 1945
Mussolini and 15
other fascist leaders
are executed and
hanged in the
Piazzale Loreto in
Milan.

European
Front
April 29, 1945
Mussolini and 15
other fascist leaders
are executed and
hanged in the
Piazzale Loreto in
Milan.

European
Front
April 29, 1945
Mussolini and 15
other fascist leaders
are executed and
hanged in the
Piazzale Loreto in
Milan.

After defeats in Africa and Europe, Italy forced out of war early

European
Front
April 29, 1945
Mussolini and 15
other fascist leaders
are executed and
hanged in the
Piazzale Loreto in
Milan.

After defeats in Africa and Europe, Italy forced out of war early

European Front
OPERATION OVERLORD (DDAY)

FDR
STALIN
CHURCHILL
MEET

TO PLAN
INVASION ACROSS
ENGLISH CHANNEL
NORMANDY
GERMANS EXPECTED
THEM TO ATTACK
ELSEWHERE AT
CALAIS
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D-Day Normandy
Invasion
WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW?
NAZIS CONTINUE TO FIGHT
THROUGH AIR ATTACKS 1943 & 1944
OPERATION OVERLORD: DRIVE

THE NAZIS OUT OF FRANCE AND

HEAD THEM TOWARDS DEFEAT
AT HOME
JUNE 6, 1944
LARGEST AMPHIBIOUS INVASION

(INVASION BY SEA)
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World War 2
Nazi Holocaust

Nazi Antisemitic Propaganda

The Jew, the inciter and

prolonger of the war

The Eternal JEw

School racial chart

The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the
result of Hitlers antiJewish racial policies
It was the mass murder
of millions of Jews,
Gypsies, Homosexuals,
and other people
deemed sub human

Nuremburg
Laws
Laws that restricted freedom and rights of Jews
Passed in 1935
Jews were no longer German citizens
No longer had a right to jobs or their property
Could not hold public office, teach, work for the
government, or attend school
Jews were forced to wear a Star of David on
their clothing so they could be identified

 Nazis forced Jews to

live in ghettosovercrowded, closed
sections of cities

Wanted the Jews

inside to die of
starvation or
diseasemany
did

The Final Solution

A program of genocide-mass killing of a group of people
In 1941 the first Extermination Camps opened
They used massive gas chambers to kill up to 6,000 people a day
Prisoners were used for slave labor and thousands were worked
to death
The bodies were burned in large ovens
In all 6 Million Jews died in the Holocaust

Cremation ovens
Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Living and sleeping conditions

End of War
Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Date

Victory in
Europe

Mussolini was captured and

killed by Italian partisans
and Hitler committed
suicide in April 1945, as the
Russian troops took Berlin.

Germany surrendered
unconditionally on May 7,
1945 (V-E Day).

Fighting in the Pacific would

continue until August.
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A Grinding War
in the Pacific

In 1945, the U.S. began targeting

people in order to coerce Japan
to surrender

Battle for Leyte Gulf

66 major Japanese cities bombed

500,000 civilians killed
Total blockade of Japan
Japanese navy virtually destroyed
Kamikaze (divine wind) flights begin

Okinawa (April, 1945)

All 110,000 Japanese defenders

killed
U.S. invaded this island, which
would provide a staging area for the
invasion of the Japanese islands.
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A Grinding War
in the Pacific

In 1945, the U.S. began targeting

people in order to coerce Japan
to surrender

Battle for Leyte Gulf

66 major Japanese cities bombed

500,000 civilians killed
Total blockade of Japan
Japanese navy virtually destroyed
Kamikaze (divine wind) flights begin

Okinawa (April, 1945)

All 110,000 Japanese defenders

killed
U.S. invaded this island, which
would provide a staging area for the
invasion of the Japanese islands.
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Atom Diplomacy
Atom DiplomacyFDR had funded
the top-secret Manhattan Project
to develop an atomic bomb

Dr. Robert Oppenheimer

successfully tested in the
summer of 1945.

FDR had died on April 12, 1945,

and the decision was left to
Harry Truman.

An amphibious invasion could

cost over 350,000 Allied
casualties.

Turning Points

August 6, 1945 The Enola Gay drops

bomb on Hiroshima

August 9, 1945 Nagasaki

140,000 dead; tens of thousands injured;

radiation sickness; 80% of buildings
destroyed

70,000 dead; 60,000 injured

Emperor Hirohito surrenders on Aug. 14,

1945. (V-J Day)

Formal surrender signed on September 2

onboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo
Bay
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Cost of War

Germany- 3 million combat deaths (3/4ths on the

eastern front)
Japan over 1.5 combat deaths; 900,000 civilians
dead
Soviet Union - 13 million combat deaths
U.S. 300,000 combat deaths, over 100,000 other
deaths
When you include all combat and civilian
deaths, World War II becomes the most
destructive war in history with estimates as
high as 60 million, including 25 million
Russians.