2. World War II
1939-1945
Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Allied Powers
France, Britain, US, Soviet
Union
3. Response to Hitler
Treaty of Versailles
Germany cannot build
an offensive army
Hitler secretly builds
France and Britain do
nothing!
Appeasement
Give Germany whatever
they wanted to avoid
war
4. Hitler on the Move
Hitler invades all
countries around
Germany
Nonaggression Pact
Hitler makes a secret
deal with Russia to split
Poland
France and Britain
promise to protect
Poland
5. Blitzkrieg (Lightning Warfare)
Gain victory as quickly as possible with the least amount of
German casualties
1. German Air Force
Bomb everything they can find
2. Panzer Forces
German tanks would crash through defensive lines at top speed
3. Motorized Infantry
Infantry in trucks would come in right behind the Panzers to allow
the tanks to continue their advance
4. Regular Infantry
Advance on foot to allow Motorized infantry to continue on
6.
7. Invasion of Poland
Case White
Germany’s Panzers vs.
Polish Calvary
Polish Calvary forces charge
German tanks with their
swords
Russians also invade from
the east
Germany defeats Poland
in 26 Days!
Russia Realizes Germany’s
Power, nobody else does
8. Target…France
Blitzkrieg
Unleashed against
Belgium and the
Netherlands
Takes 10 days to capture
these two countries
France and Britain try to
reinforce the countries but
fail
Become surrounded
9. Conquest of France
Blitzkrieg
Unexpected Success
France falls in 35 days
Second most powerful
military in the world
Reason for quick success
France lacks necessary
armed forces and
misused the ones that
they had
10.
11. The “Jewish Question”
Hitler’s Plan
Hitler planned to
remove all Jews from
Germany
Hitler first created many
restrictions on Jews
This was done to
encourage their relocation
on their own
12. Kristallnacht
Jew assassinates German
official in Paris
Kristallnacht results
“Night of Broken Glass”
Jewish businesses
destroyed
Results in mass Jewish
emigration from Germany
13. Carrying out the Final Solution
The Final Solution
Hitler chooses
extermination as the
final solution
Establishment of death
camps that use gas to kill
Auschwitz
Largest death camp that
was built in Poland
Camps use hydrogen
cyanide to kill prisoners
14.
15. Carrying out the Final Solution.
At first only Jews unfit
for work were killed
Towards the end of the
war all Jews are being
killed
In all possibly as many as
5.8 million Jews were
killed during the
Holocaust
16. Hitler Fails…Twice
Battle of Britain
Bombing campaign
against Britain
Fails to defeat Britain
Invasion of Russia
Scorched Earth Policy
Battle of Stalingrad
200 day battle
Bloodiest battle of WWII
Germany begins to retreat
17. The Pacific
Island Hopping
America planned to take
over certain islands
leading to Japan
Some islands were
bypassed
Battle of Midway
US Navy halts the
advance of the Japanese
18. The Pacific.
Guadalcanal
Marines take the island
but struggle to hold it
Medal of Honor Winner
John Bassilone
Machine gunner who
suffers third degree burns
from moving his machine
gun
19.
20. The Pacific..
Iwo Jima
February 19th 1945
One of the final battles in
the Pacific
Marines pay a high price in
lives to take island
First Flag Raising
Small group of Marines
given a flag to raise at the
top of Mount Suribachi
21.
22. The Pacific…
Iwo Jima
Second Flag Raising
Another group of Marines
given a flag to place on top
of Suribachi to replace the
first flag
Joe Rosenthal, combat
photographer, follows the
group
23. Harlon Block, Rene Gagnon, Michael Strank, Franklin Sousley, Ira
Hayes, and John Bradley
24. Pacific….
1 out of every 3 Marines
were either killed or
wounded
Almost all of the 20,000
Japanese defenders died
27 Medals of Honor
awarded
“Uncommon valor was a
common virtue”
25. The Homefront
Post Depression Resolve
US must muster all the
determination it can to
win World War II
Men dropped out of
high school to fight,
women worked in
factories to produce
weapons
26. The Homefront.
Women in the Military
350,000 women serve in
the military
Women’s Army Corps
(WAC)
Women Accepted for
Volunteer Emergency
Service (WAVES)
27. The Homefront..
$320 Trillion
Amount spent to
finance the war
All industry produces
war equipment
Government spending
lifts the country out of
the depression
28. The Homefront…
Government Agencies
War Production Board
Supervised conversion of
industry to war production
Office of Price
Administration
Supervised consumer
prices and managed
rationing
Office of War
Mobilization
Supervised the efforts of
all these agencies
29. The Homefront….
Rationing
Ration Books
Government begins to
ration certain items by
giving out redeemable
coupons
These coupons could be
redeemed for items such
as sugar, meat, and
gasoline
30. The Homefront……
War Bonds
Bought by Americans to
help pay for the War
Government promises
to pay back money later
with interest
31. The Homefront…….
Discrimination
Executive Order 8802
Banned discrimination in
the defense industry
Did not desegregate the
armed forces
Executive Order 9981
Desegregated the military
(1948)
32. D-Day in France
Normandy, France
Location America selects
June 6, 1944
Five Beaches selected for
the attack (US gets 2)
1. Utah Beach
US
2. Omaha Beach
US
Hitler never realized this
was the real invasion
33.
34. Hitler’s End
Hitler becomes
desperate while
surrounded
Orders the destruction
of Death Camps
Unable to destroy most
of the death camps
35. Hitler’s End.
Bunker Life
Headquarters moved to an
underground bunker in
Berlin
Developed a stoop,
suffered from tremors in
his limbs, and dragged his
leg when he walked
Comes under the
influence of a quack
doctor who gave him large
dosages of drugs
(Cocaine)
36. Hitler’s End..
Ordered Destruction
Hitler orders the
destruction of
everything that the
Allies could possibly use
Hitler still visualized a
miraculous turnabout in
the war
37. Hitler’s End…
Marriage
Hitler marries his long
time mistress Eva Braun
Last Political Testament
Expelled everyone from
the Nazi Party who had
surrendered
38. Hitler’s End….
Suicide
Hitler and Eva retire to
their private quarters
Hitler tests his poison on
his German Sheppard
(Blondie)
Eva poisons herself
Hitler poisons himself and
then shoots himself in the
mouth with his pistol
Aides burn their bodies
Huge Conspiracy!
39. Japan Becomes Desperate
Kamikaze Assault
Japanese suicide
bomber begin to attack
the American Fleet
Shows that Japan would
rather die than
surrender
Sunk 34 American ships
and damaged over 350
40.
41. Atomic Bomb
Manhattan Project
Codename for the
American push to build
an atomic bomb
$2 Billion Project
One of 37 plants helping
to build the bomb
located in Oak
Ridge, Tennessee
Enrico
Fermi, responsible for
developing the bomb
42. Atomic Bomb.
Two Bombs
“Little Boy” and “Fat
Man”
Potsdam Declaration
America calls on Japan
to surrender or face
“complete and utter
destruction”
43. Atomic Bomb..
Japan refuses to
surrender
US now has to choose
which two cities to use
the bombs on
After much debate
America chooses two
major cities
1. Hiroshima
2. Kokura (Switched to
Nagasaki)
44. Atomic Bomb…
Hiroshima
Enola Gay takes off from
Tinian
Is carrying a 9,000 lbs.
nuclear bomb
“Little Boy”
60% of Hiroshima
instantly destroyed
100,000 people die
instantly
US asks for Japan’s
surrender again
47. Atomic Bomb….
Japanese refuse to
surrender
Nagasaki
Bockscar leaves with “Fat
Man”
Switches from Kokura to
Nagasaki because of
weather
Center of city flattened
35,000 die instantly
Forced Japan to surrender
WWII is over