Hitler rapidly expanded German territory through appeasement and military aggression. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Britain and France declared war, marking the start of World War II in Europe. Over the next several years, Germany occupied much of Western Europe as Britain resisted alone. In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, drawing the Soviet forces into the war. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 resulted in the United States entering the war. The Allied forces gradually pushed back the Axis powers over the next several years, culminating in the defeat of Germany in 1945 and Japan in 1945, bringing World War II to an end.

1. WORLD WAR
II
A War for World Domination!

2. Our objective
• SWBAT understand the role of
appeasement, isolationism and the
domestic distractions in Europe
and the US prior to the outbreak
of WWII

4. Hitler
Militarizes
• Claimed a desire for peaceful
renegotiation of TOV
• March 9th, 1935-created a new air
force

5. Hold up wait a
minute!
• New air force
&
• Began a military draft

6. Does that sound
Peaceful?

7. Heheheh!

8. Exactly!
• Hitler was counting that no one was
going to stop him
• Afraid of war
• Not use force

9. March 7th 1936
• Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland
• Area between Germany & France
• “belonged to Germany”
• Demilitarized
• France

10. If they did…
• France had the right to use force

11. You SCURED?
• France
• Not act without British Support
Please
• GB didn’t support don’t
hurt me!

12. Please don’t hurt
me!
• Great Britain started to give into
Germany
• Hoped that Germany would be
satisfied and go away

13. I gotcho back
homie!
• Hitler gained a new ally!
• What is an ally?
• Who do you think it might be?
• Italy

14. Mussolini
• Invaded Ethiopia 1935

15. No Bueno!
• France & Britain did not approve
• Mussolini was angered
• Welcomed an alliance with Hitler
• 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis
• Germany & Japan agreement
• Anit-Commitern Pact
• What do you think it was about?
• Unite against communism

16. On to the next
one
• Wanted to unite with Austria
• His homeland
• Threatened them with invasion
• Forced them to Nazis in charge of the
government
• 1983-annexed Austria
• What do you think annexed means?

17. And another one
• Destroy Czechoslovakia
• Demanded the Sudetenland
• mostly German population
• Declared willingness to risk WW
• Great Britain, France, Italy gave in
• What is that called?

18. YEAH RIGHT
• @ the conference
• Hitler promised no more demands
•What do you think that
Hitler REALLY thought of
the Western countries?

19. It ain’t over yet!
• March 1939
• Hitler invaded Western Czechoslovakia

20. What a liar!
• Broke his “promise”
• Demanded Polish port of Danzig
• Great Britain offered protection
• France & Britain
• Need Soviet support
• Negotiations started

21. Uhhhh oh!
• Hitler began to worry
• August 23, 1939
• Hitler & Stalin
• Non-aggression pact
• What do you think they promise?

22. I’ll scratch your
back!
• Offered Stalin control of Western
Poland & the ___________ states.

23. If you stay
ready…
• September 1st 1939
• Germany invaded Poland
• 2 days later Britain & France
declared war on Germany

24. And with that
my friends…
• World War II began

26. Our objective
• SWBAT summarize and the course of
WWII “the European Theater of
Battle”

27. SO…
• What do we already know about
how WWII started?
• Who are the axis powers?
• Who are their leaders?
• Who are the allied powers?
• Who are their leaders?
• What lead to WWII?

28. Appeasement?
• What role did it play in the
beginning of the war?

29. What about
Poland?
• What role did Poland play in the
start of WWII?

30. Last time…
• Discussed
• Hitler invaded Poland
• Blitzkrieg
• Lightening War
• Overwhelmed Polish troops
• Within 4 weeks->Poland surrendered

32. I got this!
• April of 1940
• Hitler attacks
• Denmark
• Norway

33. You don’t know
about ME!
• May of 1940
• Hitler attacks
• The Netherlands
• Belgium
• France

34. Yo Check this!
• France
• Maginot Line-Series of concrete &
Steel fortifications
• Armed with heavy artillery
• Along French-German border

35. SURPRISE!!!
• German troops surprised French-
British Troops
• Germans went around the Maginot
Line

36. We’re outie
2000
• I mean 1940
• British troops evacuated
• Leaving behind the French

37. I got you!
• Germany occupied France
• Vichy France
• France is out!
Henri Petain

38. Who is left?
• Great Britain is left to fight alone

39. Pretty Please!
• Churchill pleas for help
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Denounces Germany
• But refuses

40. No, but thanks
for asking!
• US
• Strict policy of not involving
themselves in European affairs
• What is that called?
• 1930’s
• Congress passes a series of Neutrality
Acts
• US would not take sides

41. FDR
• Knew involvement was inevitable
• Got congress to ease up
• US sends
• Supplies
• Food
• Ships
• Planes
• Weapons
• To Britain

42. Lend Lease Act
• Great Britain.........................$31 billion
Soviet Union..........................$11 billion
France..................................$3 billion
China..................................$1.5 billion
Other European......................$500 million
South America.......................$400 million
The amount totaled: $48,601,365,000

43. Lend Lease Act

44. you only think
you know
• 1940-Battle of Britain
• What’s the name of the German Air
force?
• Yeah those guys!

45. Droppin’ Bombs!
• Showering Britain with bombs
• Air bases
• Naval bases
• Harbors
• Communications centers
• War & munitions factories

46. I feel weak
• GB was weekend
• Down but not out
• Britain attacks Berlin
• Germany Retaliates

47. I’ll get you back
• Germany launches massive attacks
• British cities
• Hoping to break morale
• Cut Support for the war

48. And What?
• Germany distracted
• Britain rebuilds war industry
• Regained strength
• Attacks the Luftwaffe
• Causing major loses for Luftwaffe

49. Better Luck next
time
• Sept of 1940
• Hitler
• Postpones invading Britain
• indefinitely

50. Maybe…
• Hitler tried his luck attacking the
Soviets
• Barbarossa Plan
• Spring 1941
• Problems in the Balkans
• Attack delayed to June

51. Barbarossa
• Launches invasion of Soviet Union
• June 1941
• Confident he’ll be out before winter
• Swift attack
• By November was closing in on the
capitol

52. Thank you
mother nature
• Early winter sets in
• German troops
• No winter uniforms
• Soviets fight fiercely
• Stop German troops

53. Just kidding!
• Soviets encircle German troops
• Cut off supply lines
• German troops forced to surrender
• Hitler is unable to defeat the Soviets

54. Waking a sleeping
GIANT
• December 7th, 1941
• Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• US Naval Base in Hawaii
• Drawing the US into the war

55. I’ve got an idea!
• British has the largest Empire
• Where did Britain have colonies?
• Hitler decides to attack colonies in
Africa
• Take oil supplies and natural
resources

56. Can’t nobody
hold us down!
• British & American Forces
• Stop German & Italian Forces
• Forced them to surrender
• 1943

57. Like a pig?
• May 1943
• Allies decide to attack Italy
• Winston Churchill called it “the soft
under belly of Europe”

58. Allies: High five!
• Allies take Sicily
• Mussolini removed from office

59. Please don’t hurt
us!
• Victory Emmanuelle
• King of Italy
• Offered to surrender to the Allies

60. ‘till the fat lady
sings
• Hitler takes the north
• Liberates Mussolini
• Set up a puppet government
• What is a puppet government?
• Mussolini @ the head

61. ADIOS
• Fighting between the Allies & Axis
• Rome fell
• June 4th 1944

62. Awesomeness!
• June 6th, 1944
• D-day invasion
• History’s GREATEST naval invasion

63. US General
Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Landed on the beaches
• Normandy, France
• Fought past:
• Underwater mines
• Barbed wire
• Horrible machine gun fire

64. Stop playing
• Hitler thought it was a distraction
• Waiting for the real attack

65. • Forces take over the beach
• 3 months
• 2 million men
• 5 hundred thousand vehicles

66. Normandy Landing
(June 6, 1944)
German Prisoners
Higgins Landing Crafts

67. OUI, OUI
• Break through the German offensive
lines
• By August
• Allies liberated Paris

68. The Liberation of Paris:
August 25, 1944
De Gaulle in Triumph!

69. Can’t see me!
• From France
• March 1945
• Allies cross the Rhine River
• Advance into Germany

70. ‘sup son?!
• April Allies move up to the Elbe
River
• Meet up with the soviet forces
• Some soviets had been moving north
west
• Occupied Warsaw by January
• By April entered Berlin

71. And in the south
• Some soviet troops
• Moved South
• Took Hungary, Romania, and
Bulgaria

72. Pimp my bunker
• January 1945
• Hitler moved into his secret bunker
• 55 feet underground in Berlin
• Directing the war

73. What do Jews have to do with
it?
• Hitler blamed the Jews for the war
• And for losing it

74. Fade to black
• April 30th, 1945
• Hitler committed suicide
• Cyanide pill
• Instructed staff to burn his remains
• Soviets took possession-autopsy of
remains

75. Hitler Commits Suicide
April 30, 1945
Cyanide & Pistols
The Führer’s Bunker
Mr. & Mrs. Hitler

76. 2 days earlier
• Mussolini was killed
• Italian resistance fighters
Mussolini &
His Mistress,
Claretta Petacci
Are Hung in Milan, 1945

77. We Surrender!
• May 7th, 1945
• Nazi Commanders Surrendered

78. V-E Day (May 8, 1945)
General Keitel

79. And with that the
European Theater
of Battle had
ended

80. PACIFIC
THEATRE

81. Lemme get some
• Japan needs natural resources
• So they decide to build their empire

82. You are mine
• Sept 1931 Japan took Manuchuria
• An attempt to get those natural
resources

83. Mukden
Incident
• Japanese soldiers
• Dress up as Chinese
• Attacked a Japanese rail car
• Why would they do this?

84. I’m busy!
• China fighting communists
• Want to avoid another conflict
• So they give in… What's that called?
• Let Japan govern parts of N China

85. Lets keep it
movin’
• Japan kept creeping South
• China puts the commies on hold
• J & C clash in July of 1937
• Led to the Rape of Nanking

86. New Asian
Order
• Japan wants to be in charge of all of
the Asian countries
• Already cooperating with Nazi’s
• Wants to take Siberia
• Needs more raw materials to fuel it
war effort

87. Hit em up?
• Needs more resources
• Wage war with soviets
• Wants to take islands in the South
Asia
• Worried m
• May spark a war with Europe or the
US

88. Sneak Attack
Decide to attack US and European
Colonies is S.E. Asia

89. Mass Attack
• December 7th, 1941
• Japanese aircrafts launched multiple
attacks
• Philippines-US
• Malaya-GB
• Pearl Harbor Hawaii
• Trying to take out US pacific fleet
• Why?

90. SO SOFT!
• Didn’t expect US to retaliate
• Join the war
• Why not?

91. • Felt the American prosperous life
• Made them soft

92. We in this MUG
• Citizens support entry
• Nazis declare war on the US
• Within 4 days US sees combat

93. Battle of the
Coral Sea
• May 7th 1942
• Japanese adv to Australia
• US naval forces stop the invasion

94. Battle of Midway
• June 4th, 1942
• 4 active Japanese Aircraft Carriers
• US planes destroy them