1. World War II

2. Axis Powers and Leaders
Japan: Hirohito
Germany: Hitler
Italy: Mussolini

3. Allied Powers and Leaders
France:
Edouard Daladier
Soviet Union:
Joseph Stalin
United States: FDR
(after )
England:
Winston Churchill

4. Philosophies Aggression: Germany, Italy, Japan
Appeasement “giving – in”: England, France
Isolationism: United States

5. What was the United States initial response to the war?

6. Why did the United States enter World War II?

7. December 7,1941-Japan bombed US naval base in Hawaii at Pearl Harbor
“Yesterday, December 7, a date which will live in infamy” FDR

8. What was our home front doing to help support the war?

9. What was Japanese Internment?

10. How does World War II end?

11. The Germans Surrender Soviets reached Berlin first
Adolf Hitler found dead in bunker—a suicide
Berlin surrendered May 2, 1945; Germany five days later
Victory in Europe (V-E Day) proclaimed May 8, 1945
War in Europe finally over after nearly six years

12. Allies issued demand for surrender
Japan was next!
US was now ready to make Japan surrender.
July 26, 1945
Allies issued demand for surrender
No response;
Hiroshima bombed on
August 6, 1945
Still no surrender; second bomb dropped on
Nagasaki on August 9, 1945
145,000 total deaths
Japanese surrendered August 15, 1945; V-J Day (Victory in Japan)
Options: To invade or drop the bomb
1.To invade Japan, it would cost upward of 1 million dollars.
2. Atomic bomb successfully tested in 1945
Harry S Truman U.S. president with Roosevelt’s death in May 1945 was forced to make the decision.

13. End of War Germany surrenders in April 1945; V-E Day May 8, 1945
Japan surrenders September 2, 1945-V-J Day
Hiroshima/Nagasaki-Atom bomb;
Decision to drop bomb - Manhattan Project made at Potsdam Conference under President Truman

14. Economic Results property damage in Japan & Europe
economic recovery (industry) in the United States
territorial changes in Europe

15. What happened to Hitler, Mussolini & Hirohito?

16. Fate of Axis Leaders
Hitler-Committed suicide when Allies invaded Berlin (April 30, 1945)
Mussolini- Executed by Italian partisans near the end of World War II
Hirohito- After Japan’s surrender, Hirohito remained as figurehead leader of the constitutional monarch in Japan (Allied powers set up the constitutional monarchy)