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.

1. WORLD WAR II

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

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.

20. Atomic Bomb
Enola Gay

21. Atomic Bomb