1. World War II Allied Powers Axis Powers Great Britain France
USSR (Soviet Union)
United States
Germany
Italy
Japan

2. Hitler establishes the Third Reich and announces his intent to rearm Germany
1933

3. Japan, Germany, and Italy form the Axis powers
Hitler establishes the Third Reich and announces his intent to rearm Germany
1933
Hitler invades the Rhineland (territory lost in the Treaty of Versailles)
Japan, Germany, and Italy form the Axis powers
1936

4. Japan, Germany, and Italy form the Axis powers
Hitler establishes the Third Reich and announces his intent to rearm Germany
1933
Hitler invades the Rhineland (territory lost in the Treaty of Versailles)
Japan, Germany, and Italy form the Axis powers
1936
Hitler invades Austria (Anschluss)
Munich Conference (Britain, France, Germany, and Italy meet to discuss aggression)
Hitler is granted the Sudetenland
1938

5. Japan, Germany, and Italy form the Axis powers
Hitler establishes the Third Reich and announces his intent to rearm Germany
1933
Hitler invades the Rhineland (territory lost in the Treaty of Versailles)
Japan, Germany, and Italy form the Axis powers
1936
Hitler invades Austria
Munich Conference (Britain, France, Germany, and Italy meet to discuss aggression)
Hitler is granted the Sudetenland
1938
Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
Germany and Italy sign a Nonagression Pact (agree not to invade each other and to split control of Poland)
Hitler invades Poland using Blitzkrieg (“lightning war”) * officially begins World War II *
1939
1940
Hitler takes France

6. 1941
Hitler invades Russia

7. The Holocaust Nazi ideology and policies:
Germanic peoples were a “master race”
Non-Germanic peoples were inferior
Nuremberg Laws (1935): deprived Jews of German citizenship, outlawed mixed marriages, limited the kinds of work Jews could perform
Jews were moved into segregated areas called ghettos

8. The Holocaust

9. The Holocaust

10. The Holocaust

11. The Holocaust Hitler’s “Final Solution”
The systematic killing of an entire people
Killing squads
Concentration camps (forced labor, extreme brutality, poor living conditions)
Gas chambers killed thousands and their bodies were burned

12. The Holocaust

16. Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
1941
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

17. Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
1941
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
1942
Allied forces attack Japan at Guadalcanal
Japan
Hawaii (Pearl Harbor)
Guadalcanal

18. “Island Hopping” in the Pacific
Douglas MacArthur (Pacific Allied commander)
“island hop” – skip past Japanese strongholds; attack only islands that were not well-defended but were closer to Japan

19. German forces are defeated in Russia at the city of Stalingrad (combination of Russian troops & winter)
1943
Allied forces attack German-occupied France at the Beach of Normandy (D-Day)
1944

20. The End of the War
Mussolini is shot and dragged through the streets of Italy. His body is hung in Milan for public viewing.

21. The End of the War
Hitler commits suicide and Germany surrenders to the Allies.

22. The End of the War
The United States drops the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. 150,000 people are instantly killed. Thousands more die from burns and radiation. Less than one month later, Japan surrenders.