Chapter 22 - World

War II

The World at War (1939

I. A TIME OF TYRANTS

A. Dictators
 1) Germany

Adolf Hitler: Wrote Mein Kampf

Nazi Party; Third Reich
2) Italy

Benito Mussolini: Fascism

Allied to Germany
Invaded Africa
3) Japan

Hideki Tojo: Cruel

Invaded China
Joined Axis Powers
 4) Russia

Joseph Stalin:
Communist Russia
Tyrant
B. The Coming of War

Appeasement: give in to demands;

didnt satisfy
Rhineland Industry
 B. The Coming of War

Sudetenland Britain and France ok

Poland Protection
 B. The Coming of War

Nazi Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

1939 Hitler takes Poland
Blitzkrieg
England and France forced to declare war on Germany
 C. German Victories

Denmark and Norway

Fall of France
British and French armies forced back to Dunkirk
 C. German Victories

Dense Fog allies slip away to England

France forced to surrender
Only Britain stands alone
 C. German Victories

New PM: Winston

Churchill
Battle of Britain
C. German Victories

Hitler betrays Russia

 C. German Victories

Invades in 1941 (Operation Barbarossa)

C. German Victories

Russia retreating
Hitler is master of Europe
II. Isolation and Infamy

1. Tradition: Leave Europe alone

2. War Debt
3. Most Americans: Pro-Allies
 II. Isolation and Infamy

A) The Arsenal of Democracy

 A) The Arsenal of Democracy

Franklin D.
Roosevelt
Lend-Lease Act: US sells Military Equipment to Allies;
50 Billion dollars from 37 Countries
Atlantic Charter: US and Allies share common goals
 B) Remember Pearl
Harbor

December 7, 1941
Japan surprise attacks US at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
 B) Remember Pearl
Harbor

2 hrs. 3 Battleships, 16 smaller boats, and 150

aircraft destroyed
2,400 killed; 1,200 wounded
B) Remember Pearl
Harbor

Aircraft Carriers were unharmed!

Next Day Roosevelt and Congress Declare War
 Allies
England
France
Axis
Soviet
Germany
Russia
Italy
United
Japan States
 B) Remember Pearl
Harbor
Commander Douglas
MacArthur - Philippines
Attacked; MacArthur
order to leave
I shall return!
Bataan Death March
B) Remember Pearl
Harbor

Chester W. Nimitz defended island of Midway

Sunk 4 Japanese Carriers; lost 1 himself
Stopped Japanese Expansion
III. The Home Front
 A) Mobilizing the Economy
War Production
Board: No
construction;
Commercial to
Industrial
Rationing:
Conserve food
War Bonds 185
 B) Manpower vs.
Womanpower
15 million men
and women
joined Military
Women joined
the workforce
1944 - 33% of
workers were
IV. Fight for Fortress
Europe
 A) Desert War

Italy invaded Africa

England began to push them back
Germany showed up to help Italy
A) Desert War
Erwin
Rommel:
The Desert
Fox
A) Desert War

Bernard Montgomery:
British General takes over for Allies
A) Desert War

US General Dwight D.
Eisenhower leads
Operation Torch
IV. Fortress Europe
B) Italian Campaign

Russia = Impatient
Italy was the weak
point
Operation Husky:
June 4th 1944 Rome
was freed
 B) ITALIAN CAMPAIGN

General George S. Patton - Hero

C) D-Day

June 6th, 1944

Rommel is in Germany
175,000 Allies storm the beach
C) D-Day

Allies break out at St. Lo

George Patton leads the way
Paris Liberated (1944)
D) Battle of the Bulge

Battle of the Bulge

German counterattack in December
Allies retreat except at Bastogne
D) Battle of the Bulge
Americans trapped and surrounded
Surrender? NUTS!
January Patton and Montgomery free
Bastogne
V. War in the
Pacific
 A) Island Hopping

1942 Guadalcanal: marines stranded

for a month; defeat Japan
1. The Marianas

Saipan and Guam: Great Turkey

Shoot
2) Fight for the
Philippines

Battle of Leyte Gulf: Largest Naval

Battle in History; American
Domination
First encounter with Kamikazes
 3) IWO JIMA
Key to
Victory:
Strike at
Japan
4) OKINAWA
Bloodiest
Campaign
in the
Pacific
2 and
Months
 B) A thief in the Camp

Yalta; Big 3
Harry Truman
Joseph Stalin Liar!!!
C) The Holocaust

May we never forget

11 Million are killed during the
Holocaust
Who are these people?
These are the people who were in charge
of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1) How could these be the faces of such Evil?
2) How do you kill 11 million people?
VI. Victory!!!
 A) Victory in Europe

April 30th, 1945: Hitler Suicide

May 7th: Germany Surrenders
 B) Victory in Japan

Truman made aware of Atomic

Bomb
 B) Victory in Japan

Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima

and Nagasaki
September 2, 1945: Japan
Surrenders
50 Million people died during
WWII
292,000 American Military
The world now looks to America
as the leader of Freedom and
Democracy!