1. America & World War II
Allies vs. Axis

2. WWI – 1914-1918 War To End All Wars?
Taking Sides
Beginning to End
Causes
Quest for land – Americas and Africa
Building up militaries
Quest for Power/Empires
Ends
Germany Surrenders - Allies Win
Treaty of Versailles
Germany is blamed and receives most consequences
The German military must remain at only 100,000 soldiers – no more
The Germans had to pay full reparations to the Allies
Germany had to give up colonies to Great Britain, France & Japan
Allies
USA
France
Russia
Great Britain
Belgium
Japan
Axis
Germany
Italy
Austro–Hungary

3. Roaring 20’s Technology Electricity Radio (1920)
Television, Silent (1927)
Wash Machines
Vacuum Cleaners
Automobiles
Technology
Electricity
Radio (1920)
Television, Silent (1927)
Wash Machines
Vacuum Cleaners
Government
18th Amendment – Prohibition
* Illegal to make or sell
alcoholic beverages.
19th Amendment – Women and
the right to vote.
People
Charles Lindbergh – Flight over the Atlantic
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Duke Ellington – Jazz Composer

4. The Great Depression “30’s”
                                                           
Causes
What ended it?
Distribution of Wealth
Stock Market Crash
Banks failed/closed
No loans
Government Programs (New Deal)
World War II
Industrialization
Link to Video

5. Causes of WWII
WWI-
Germany and Italy were unhappy with the Treaty of Versailles
Japan joined Germany and Italy
Formed the Axis Powers
War begins when Germany invades of Poland on Sept 1, 1939
Japan Invades East Asian Countries
Axis Powers attacked other European Countries
Reasons
Quest for Land
World Domination

6. Key Leaders Axis Powers Allies Germany – Adolf Hitler (Dictator)
Italy – Benito Mussolini (Prime Minister)
King Victor Emmanuel (Monarch)
Japan – General Hideki Tojo
Allies
Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin (Dictator)
Britain – Sir Winston Churchill (Prime Minister)
U.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt (served 12 Yrs)
Dwight D. Eisenhower – Commanded Allies

7. Adolf Hitler Dictator of Germany NAZI Political Party Many feel he was
responsible for over
50 million Civilians and
Military deaths.

8. Axis The aggression of Hitler’s Allies
Italy – Mussolini wanted a Fascist-Roman empire in the Mediterranean and Africa
Japan – Japan wanted a Nipponese empire in the Pacific, extending into China and Australia
Germany, Italy and Japan were hostile to Communism (USSR), and this was a cause of war and vice versa.

9. Axis Powers Germany Japan Italy Austria (NOT AUSTRALIA!) Bulgaria
Finland
Hungary
Romania

10. Allies Australia Belgium Canada China France Great Britain Poland
Soviet Union – USSR (Russia)
United States

11. Europe on the Eve of World War II, 1939 - Everyone Pick Your Side!
                                                                               

12. Pearl Harbor Link to Video
Attack on Warships on U.S. soil by the Japanese.
December 7, 1941
Devastation
4 US Battleships sunk
19 other ships sunk or disabled
170 planes destroyed
2,403 Civilians and military personnel killed
Link to Video

13. Effects of Pearl Harbor
The United States entering World War II
Military Draft (ages 20-44)
Massive Industrialization
Production increases: 263 planes per day, 70,000
ships and 3 million machines guns.
Women’s role during the war
(Production, Military, and at Home)
Depression Era ended
(U.S. & the World)

14. D-Day Link to Video The Invasion of Normandy
The 1st great breach into Hitler’s defense
200,000 buildings destroyed
3 month battle
Link to Video

15. War in Europe Ends 1945
Mussolini's death: On April 28, Mussolini and several of the other Fascists were captured with him were taken to Dongo, Italy and killed.
Hitler's death: On April 30, as the Battle of Berlin raged above him, realizing that all was lost, and not wishing to suffer Mussolini's fate, German dictator Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker.
May 8 V-E Day – Germany and Italy Surrender
The War was NOT, over Japan was still strong and FIGHTING

16. HOW DO WE STOP JAPAN? Dawning of Nuclear Age
Atomic Bomb
Why was it necessary?
Feared war would last 2 more years, est ,000 American soldiers would die.
Est. 20,000 Japanese would die from bombing

17. Atomic Bomb Link to Video Attack by the U.S. on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
US dropped “Little Boy” 1st on Hiroshima August 6th.( thousand die)
Japan refuses to surrender
US dropped “Fat Man” 2nd on Nagasaki August 9th. (killed 40,000 die)
Killed 120, ,000 people and thousands more died from radiation and injuries.
Japanese surrendered on August 14th 1945.
Was it necessary?
Link to Video

19. Division of Germany
Lesson from WWI: The Allies decided to divide Germany into 4 zones after the war.
Also, the capital of Berlin was divided into 4 sectors.
Problem- It’s in the Russian (USSR) Section. DON, Don, don….to be continued!
GERMANY
POST WWII

20. WWII Advancements in Weaponry

21. Weaponry of WWII
American T - 72
German Tiger Tank
M1-Abrams, Iraq War

22. Air Power then and now New Technology Zero Flying Fortress Mustang
F22 Rapter Predator B2 Bomber

23. Map of Europe after War War Results: United Nations

24. THE END

25. The Holocaust A
World Tragedy

26. Holocaust
Began on January 30, month after Hitler came into power.
Enacted a serious laws
Jews were no longer free: all rights and freedoms taken away.
Political, economic, citizenship, institutions & Synagogues
destroyed.
Adults were branded with numbers
Boys 12 and over sent to the munitions (ammunition) factories
Ages 6 and up were made to wear the “YELLOW STAR OF
DAVID” badge

27. Introduction to the Holocaust Link
David Bergman Introduction to the Holocaust
Camps Established After Germany Invaded Poland

28. ? The Camp Structure Ghetto’s
City-Districts in which Nazi’s forced the Jewish population live under miserable conditions.
Unsanitary Overcrowded Starvation Epidemics (Flu)
Largest Ghetto: Warsaw, Poland 400,000 people.
The Germans built 400 Ghetto’s ?
Concentration Camps
These were forced labor camps.
Brutality Starvation

29. Deportation Video Link
Exile and Deportation

30. Auschwitz Link
Auschwitz

31. Holocaust Extermination Camps
These were camps that were meant to eliminate Jews, Socialists, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, German Communists, Homosexuals, and persons of socially deviant behavior.

32. Holocaust Liberation Video Link Hitler’s “Final Solution”
January 20, 1942
Mass murder of European Jews during WWII by Hitler.
Why?
Over 6 Million Deaths
Liberation Video Link

33. Holocaust Comments by children who survived:
"I had false ID and wore a cross." "That was the last birthday gift from my parents." "My mother and several other women organized a clandestine school." "I paid for these two eggs with a small gold ring that had a ruby in it that my mother sewed into my coat." "I drank water from puddles. Snow. Anything that I could get a hold of." "There I was, an orphan, a survivor of unspeakable pain and atrocities of the war."