1. World War II

2. Aggression goes Unchecked
Japan overruns Manchuria and Eastern China
Italy Invades Ethiopia
Ethiopia had outdated weapons and lost
Hitler built up German military
Appeasement- giving into demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace
Pacifism- opposition to war

3. Aggression goes Unchecked
Neutrality Acts-USA passed these to stay out of war
Axis powers- Germany, Italy, Japan

4. Spain collapses into Civil War
Francisco Franco
General who led revolt to take control
Fascist
*Backed by Hitler and Mussolini
500,000 dead

5. German Aggression Continues
Germany annexed Austria (Democracies took no action)
Sudetenland- region of western Czechoslovakia
Hitler annexed Sudetenland
Assured Britain and France no more plans to expand

6. Europe Plunges Toward War
Nazi-Soviet Pact- nonaggression pact
Divide Poland between the 2
Based on mutual need
*Germany Invades Poland 9/1/1939 Beginning of WWII
Britain and France declare war on Germany 2 days later

7. The Axis Attacks Nazis storm Poland Blitzkrieg- lightening war
Luftwaffe- German air force
Fast Tanks, troop transports
Soviets Invade East Poland
Fr. And Bri. Troops at Maginot Line
Hitler Invades Norway and Denmark, then later Netherlands and Belgium

8. The Axis Attacks
Hitler Invades France through Belgium bypassing Maginot Line
Italy declared war on France
France surrenders 6/22/1940
French resistance used guerrilla tactics
Winston Churchill new BR. Prime minister
Germans bombed Br. Daily
Germany launches Blitz (bombing of London)

9. The Axis Attacks Br. Keep calm and carry on
Hitler failed to gain air superiority in Br. Could not invade
Ger. Invades Egypt
Italy invades Greece, Ger. Helps conquer Yugoslavia
Bulgaria and Hungary joined axis alliance
By 1941 control most of Europe

10. Germany Invades Soviet Union
Hitler nullified Nazi-Soviet Pact
Wanted their resources
3 mil Ger. Invade
Soviets lost 2.5 mil soldiers
Scorched earth
Nazis stall due to winter -40 F
Thousands froze to death
2.5 yr siege of Leningrad Ger. Don’t take it
Soviets work with Brits

11. Life Under Nazi and Japanese Occupation
Slavs considered inferior
Economic resources plundered and looted
Took art
Concentration Camps- detention centers for civilians considered enemies of the state
Jews, polish, Slavs used as slave labor

12. Nazis commit Genocide Kill those who were “racially inferior”
*Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and disabled
Forced Jews to live in Ghettos
“Final solution of the Jewish problem”
“death camps”
Take all possessions
“shower room” gas chamber

13. Nazis commit Genocide “medical” experiments Massacred 6 million Jews
Holocaust
Some ghettos fought back
Shows what happens from racism and intolerance

14. Japans Brutal Conquest
Killed and torture civilians
*Rape of Nanking, killed 40,000 to 300,000
Destroyed cities and use people as slave labor
*Saw War with USA Inevitable

15. Japan Attacks the United States
*USA. Lend-Lease Act- could sell or lend war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the USA (BR)
Atlantic Charter- USA, Britain final destruction of the Nazi Tyranny
Japan took French Indochina, Indonesia for the resources of Rubber, oil and tin

16. Japan Attacks the United States
*USA stopped selling Iron, steel, and oil to Japan
*Attack on Pearl Harbor 12/7/1941
Dec 11 Italy and Germany declare war on USA
After the bombing Japan took Philippines, and other US islands, Hong Kong, Burma, Malaya

17. All-Out War Total War Economic resources on war effort
USA. Planes and tanks instead of refrigerators
Ended unemployment of the depression era
Interned Japanese Americans and German Americans
Women built ships, planes, and ammunition
Soviet women in combat roles