The document summarizes key events leading up to and during World War II. It discusses the rise of fascist dictators like Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy in the 1930s. It also discusses the policy of appeasement by Britain and others to Hitler's expansionism, which ultimately failed. It then outlines major military campaigns and turning points of the war, including Germany's invasion of Poland starting the war, the Battle of Stalingrad, D-Day, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that led to Japan's surrender.
2. Hitler and
Mussolini
Prelude to War
Rome-Berlin Axis – 1936
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis 1937
Aggression and Appeasement
Neville Chamberlain – main proponent
Tojo
3. Why appeasement?
Avoid war
Guilt over Treaty of Versailles
Fear of communism
Popularity
4. Undermining the Treaty of
Versailles
1933 - Hitler begins to rearm, privately at
first, but then publicly in 1935
Italy invades Ethiopia – 1935
Spanish Civil War 1936
Francisco Franco
1936 - Remilitarizes the Rhineland
5. Hitler’s Step Plan
1938 - Germany annexes Austria / Anschluss
Germany annexes the Sudetenland
German speaking regions
The world appeases Hitler
6. Munich Conference
At the Munich conference, it’s decided that Hitler can
keep the land he has annexed, BUT
In return, Hitler promised:
1. He was not interested in other territories in Europe.
2. In the future, he would consult Britain before he made
any further moves.
7. Line in the sand…
Czechoslovakia
Munich Pact Broken
Realization that Hitler can’t be trusted
Poland
In 1939, Hitler hints at invading Poland
To appease or not to appease?
April 1939 – Britain promises Poland aid if
invasion occurs
8. Hitler’s Betrayal
Pact of Steel – May 1939
Non-Aggression Pact – August 1939
Germany invaded Poland on September
1, 1939
Great Britain and France declared war on
Germany
9. Blitzkrieg
Hitler used a new type of tactic called “lightening war” or blitzkrieg
Maginot Line
Dunkirk
Fall of France – June 1940
Vichy
Battle of Britain – July 1940
Invasion of Russia – June 1941
10. Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December
7, 1941
America enters war
11. Turning Points of the War
Stalingrad (42 – 43)
Italy knocked out of the war 1943
D – Day – the invasion at Normandy - 1944
Battle of the Bulge -1944
12. Germany loses it’s leader
April 30,1945, Hitler and Eva Braun commit
suicide
The Soviet forces got to Berlin first.
The Allied powers discover concentration
camps and the horrors they entail.
13. Holocaust
Over 6,000,000 Jews were brutally killed
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18. Japan
Japan refuses to surrender, in spite of the loss
of their allies.
Manhattan Project – 1942
Robert Oppenheimer
Harry Truman decided to use the bombs on
Japan to prevent loss of American lives.
19. Atomic Bomb
Aug. 6, 1945
Enola Gay
“Little Boy”
Hiroshima - center of war industries.
August 9, 1945
“Fat Man”
Nagasaki
August 14, 1945 Japan surrendered.