WWII
Introduction:
• Most devastating war in human history
• 55 million dead • 1 trillion dollars
• Began in 1939 as strictly a European Conflict
• Widened to include most of the world
How It Began
• Lots of factors • WWI leftovers
• Germany defeated in and had to pay cost of war. In huge economic depression • Italy victorious but wanted more territory • Japan victorious but wanted China
• Outside factors…
What Were These Outside Factors?
• • • • Germany reduced size Organized League of Nations French and Britain unsure U.S. isolationist
Rise of Hitler
• Nazi Party organized, 1920s
• Nazi party largest in Germany, 1932
• Hitler voted as chancellor, 1933 • New parliament created
• 450, 000 members • Larger than German army
Hitler Gets Busy
• • • • • • Gestapo Created -- April, 1933 Jewish Boycott – April, 1933 Jewish Books Banned & Burned – May, 1933 27,000 People in Camps – July, 1933 60,000 People in Camps – 1938 Illegal to Leave Germany – October, 1941
German Territorial Gains
• • • • • Austria – March, 1938 Border of Czechoslovakia – Sept., 1938 All of Czechoslovakia – March, 1939 Poland – Sept., 1939 By Summer of 1940, Germany Controlled Most of Europe
• World shocked as France falls to Germans
Those Dumb Enough To Ally
• Stalin and the Soviet Union, 1939
• Betrayed by 1941
• Mussolini and Italy, 1939
• Off and on betrayed until Italian defeat in 1943
Alliance That Changes War
• Germany “allies” with Japan
• Japan was “China Hungry”
• Japanese angry over U.S. support of China
• Agreed to peace negotiations with U. S.
Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941
Damages
U. S. Involved In War
Allies United: U.S.S.R, England and The U.S.
Normandy Invasion, D-Day
D-Day Landing on Normandy Beach
Germany Surrenders May 7, 1945