1. WWII

2. Adolf Hitler Dictator of Germany - 1933
The Rise of Dictators
Dictator – a leader who gains complete control of a country’s government.
Hitler’s Political party was called the Nazi party.
They believed in fascism (individual freedoms are denied and complete power is given to the government).
Adolf Hitler Dictator of Germany

3. Dictators Everywhere!!!!
Their goals: to attack and conquer other countries.
Military leaders in Japan (Hirohito) came to power, and planned to build a massive empire in East Asia

4. The Two Alliances (here we go again!)
Axis Powers
Germany-Hitler
Italy-Mussolini
Japan - Hirohito
Allied Powers
Britain - Churchill
France
Poland
Who started it?
Germany threatened to invade Poland.
Britain and France said, “You better not, or else…”
Germany ignored the treat and did it anyway.
Britain and France declared war on Germany.
Unfortunately, Germany quickly conquered France and Poland.

5. Will the U.S. join? Problem
Winston Churchill (leader of Britain) needed U.S. help!
Americans didn’t want another World War. (isolationism)
Solution
Lend-Lease policy – The U.S. let Britain borrow military supplies without officially entering the war.

6. Never mind! Count us in!!!! America
Spoke out against Japanese expansion
Japan
Thought the U.S. was standing in their way
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

7. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

8. The U.S. Enters WWII! …and the Soviet Union?
Soviet Union was ruled by a dictator named Joseph Stalin.
Although Stalin had an agreement with Hitler, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.
Stalin had no choice but to join the Allied Powers.

9. Axis Powers
Italy
Germany
Japan

10. Allied Powers Great Britain Soviet Union United States of America
Canada

11. United States Draft Card
The U.S. was not prepared for war.
10 million men were drafted

12. End of the Depression 
Supply and Demand Allied Powers need weapons – We can make them. How did this get us out of the Great Depression? How did this impact our economy?

13. What were the roles of women during WWII?
Serve in Military
Airplanes Pilots
Radio Operators
What were the roles of women during WWII?
Nurses
mechanics
athletes
Rosie the Riveter

14. What were the roles of African Americans during WWII?
Tuskegee Airmen

15. “Do Your Part” How did Americans help the war effort? Scrap drives
Rationing
Victory Gardens

16. Japanese Americans
The Japanese just bombed Pearl Harbor. How did this make Americans feel about the Japanese living in America?
Japanese
Internment Camps

17. Japanese Internment Camps

18. New Technology
Manhattan Project – code name given to the effort to build an atomic bomb.
Albert Einstein

19. Major Events of WWII D-Day (Date of Invasion)
Who: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 175,00 soldiers, and 6,000 ships.
Where: Normandy, France
What: The Allies fought their way onto the beach and successfully invaded Normandy, making their way toward Germany.
When: June 6, 1944

21. Major Events of WWII
V-E Day (Victory in Europe) May 8, 1945; Germany surrendered!! 
The United States and Soviet Union invaded Germany at the same time from two different locations.
When Soviet Union neared Berlin, Hitler killed himself

23. Major Events of WWII Iwo Jima (Now to invade Japan!)
Strategy: Island hopping – capture the most important islands from the Japanese.
The fighting on Iwo Jima was “the toughest the Marines ran across in 168 years”
Why is this a good strategy?

25. Major Events of WWII V-J Day (Victory in Japan) August 14, 1945
Harry S. Truman (New US President) decided to use atomic bombs on Japan.
WHY? This might force Japan to surrender and save American lives.

27. Hiroshima, Japan
First Atomic Bomb used in war.

28. Nagasaki, Japan
Second Atomic Bomb used in war.

29. The Holocaust….the facts
The Nazi party had a strict policy of anti-Semitism (the hatred of Jews). Laws limited the rights of Jews in Germany. During WWII Nazi leaders decided to destroy the entire Jewish population of Europe. When German forces captured a country, they arrested all Jews who lived there. They were taken to concentration camps.

30. What were concentration camps like?

31. Open your eyes… what do you see?

32. United Nations 50 countries met and formed the United Nations
Purpose: To promote global cooperation to try to avoid such terrible wars in the future.