The document summarizes some of the key causes and events of World War II. The political instability and economic devastation in Europe following World War I, including high unemployment and inflation in Germany, contributed to the causes of WWII. Some major events discussed include Germany invading Poland in 1939, thereby starting the war in Europe, Germany's defeat at the Battle of Britain in 1940, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 which brought the US into the war, and the Allied invasion of Normandy (D-Day) in 1944. The war ended in 1945 with the Allied victories over Germany and Japan.

1. WW II Review

2. CAUSES of WW II
Political instability and economic devastation in Europe resulting from World War I
World-wide depression
High war debt owed by Germany
High inflation
Massive unemployment
31.7 % in Germany during the Great Depression and before

3. Political instability and economic devastation in Europe resulting
from World War I

4. Devastate means to damage something. Damage it A LOT. That is what happened
after WW I in Europe, and I am NOT talking about buildings, land, or even people.

5. I am talking about the Economy : Economic Devastation
1) Your money will NOT buy as much gum as it did before. You used to be able to get
a whole pack of gum for $1.50. Now it costs $8.00. The month before it was only
$3.00. What will it cots next month??? $24??? You are DEVASTATED. No more gum
2) Ability to earn money;
3) You NOW owe A LOT of money, and
cannot pay it back. That is NOT good.
When they take what little money you do
have, you have no $ for food, clothing,
and a place to live. You are DEVASTATED.
Damaged a lot.
4) YOU do not have a job. No matter how
hard you try you cannot get one. You
cannot afford the basics of what you
need. You are DEVASTATED.

6. World-wide depression
Everyone was hurting. Often, when people hurt, they get angry.
They look for someone to blame for their problems.

7. High war debt owed by Germany
German reparations of £6,600 million ($10,111,192,477) This is equal to dollars
today of $1,782,255,617,429.94.

8. Hyperinflation

9. Something costing $5 in February of 1920 would have cost
$ 4 TRILLION, 270 BILLION by November 1923
$4,270,000,000,000
Pain, suffering, starvation, ANGER!!!!!!!

10. Massive unemployment
31.7 % in Germany during the Great Depression and before

12. 12
FascismFascism
andand
Totalitarian Fascist LeadersTotalitarian Fascist Leaders:
Adolph Hitler
Hideki Tojo
Benito Mussolini

13. 13
Fascism is a political philosophy in which
total power is given to a dictator and
individual freedoms are denied.

14. AlliedAllied Leaders WW II
They were the leaders of the group of nations called “The
Allies”

15. The Allies were the ones fighting the Axis Powers. While there were other members of the
Allies, like Canada, Mexico, the main ones were The United States, Great Britain, and The
Soviet Union.
They joined together because they had a common enemy: Germany. Germany had
attacked Great Britain and The Soviet Union BEFORE the U.S. was even in the war.
Then when Japan attacked The U.S, and Great Britain in December of 1941, Germany
declared war on the U.S., in support of their friend Japan.
Eventually it was The U.S., G.B., and the Soviet Union and their allies on one side, and
Germany, Japan, and a few other countries on the other side.

17. United States –
Harry Truman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InTPC6oylK8

18. U.S. Involvement in WWII
The Steps:
1.Isolationism (Great Depression, legacy of World War I)
2.Economic aid to Allies: The United States gave Britain war supplies
and old naval warships in return for military bases in Bermuda and the
Caribbean (Lend Lease).
3.Direct involvement in the war (After Pearl)

19. Turning Points

20. •Germany invades Poland, setting off war in Europe.
•The Soviet Union also invaded Poland and the
Baltic nations.
•Germany invaded France and captured Paris.
•Germany bombed London, and the Battle of Britain
began.

21. Poland InvasionPoland Invasion
September 1st
, 1939
…our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines,
but in the physical destruction of the enemyphysical destruction of the enemy …I have
placed my deathhead formations in readiness…with
orders to send to death mercilessly and withoutorders to send to death mercilessly and without
compassion men, women, and children of Polishcompassion men, women, and children of Polish
derivation and languagederivation and language.
Adolph Hitler – 1939

23. Germany invadedGermany invaded
France and capturedFrance and captured
ParisParis

24. Then it happened fast. The Germans went into The Netherlands (Holland) and Belgium in
May of 1940.

26. Battle ofBattle of
BritainBritain
July 10th
– October 31st
, 1940

27. The Great British leader, Winston Churchill,
gave a speech where he said:

28. In the end the British did not give up,
and the Germans stopped their
attacks by air on October 31st
, 1940,
and never attacked by land.
The British WON the Battle of Britain

30. We explained earlier how:
Japan had attacked many of her neighbors in East Asia: Manchuria, Korea, China, Burma,
Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaya. This created a situation of
RISINGtensions
The Japanese were very brutal (super mean) to the people they conquered.
U.S. started standing up to Japan.
No more scrap metal delivered ( Japan used this to melt down to make
weapons,).
No More spare parts for airplanes.
Shipments of oil would be stopped.
Without all of these resources Japan’s expansion would grind to a stop.
Japan needed to keep expanding their territory to get the raw materials they DID NOT
HAVE on their home islands ( Japan is a totally Island nation).

31. The Attack: December 7th
, 1941

33. We declare war on Germany (December 11th
, 1941) because they decalred war on us.

34. Battle of Midway
June 4th
-7th
, 1942

35. When the fighting was finally over on June 6th
, 1942 we had sunk 4 of the
most important Japanese aircraft carriers.

36. Major Events - Turning Points - Part 4:
•Germany Invades the Soviet Union – June 22nd
, 1941
•Soviet Union defeats Germany at Stalingrad - July 17th
,
1942 – February 2nd
, 1943

37. Germany Invades the Soviet Union
( Operation Barbarossa)
June 22nd
, 1941
The words of a bully. Relying on his ability to scare others into NOT acting.

38. •4.5 million troops of the Axis powers (Germany, Italy,
Romania).
•They invaded the Soviet Union (USSR) along a
21,800 mi front (line of battle).
• 600,000 motor vehicles (Tanks, tractors, trucks, etc.)
•750,000 horses.
Make Hotspot Callout: German film of Barbarosa start
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLVZDRBpa0Y&feature=player_embedded#!
Largest attack EVER!!!!!!!

39. At the end of this first
push into The Soviet
Union (it came to an
end in December
1941), the Soviet
Army had pushed
back the strongest
attack of the German
Army.
Hitler had not won the
victory he had
expected, but the
situation of the Soviet
Union remained very
weak and uncertain.
The Germans did not reach their goals, but they also had not been pushed all the way
out of The Soviet Union.
Result : German attack STOPPED. NOT defeated, but the advance stopped

40. Soviet Union defeats Germany at
Stalingrad - July 17th
, 1942 – February
2nd
, 1943
In Stalingrad

41. Adolph Hitler refused to allow the German army to retreat, or to try to break out
of the Soviet army circle that was around them. They were doomed when it
proved impossible to get supplies to them by airplane.

42. Soviet Victory!!!
What It Meant:
For Germany:
Men:
750,000 men killed, missing or wounded
91,000 captured
Equipment:
3,500 tanks destroyed
12,000 large cannons destroyed
3,000 aircraft destroyed
It would take their factories 6 months to replace this, and they no longer had time….
The U.S. had joined the fighting in Europe/Africa.
For The Soviet Union:
Men:
Yes, they had lost over 1 million
killed, but it did not matter. They
were a large country, and had a lot
of men that could be sent into
battle.
Equipment:
It did not matter here either. They
were getting weapons from us, and
their factories were making
massive numbers of all kinds of
weapons.

43. D-Day: June 6th
, 1944
Operation Overlord

44. By the end of August, 1944 ( 3 months time from the
landing) we had moved them back over 200 miles. What
was started on that day would eventually push the
Germans all the way back into Germany and defeat.

45. The End Of WW II In Europe –
May 8th
, 1945
We would keep pushing the Germans, and would not stop until they surrendered to the
Allies ( U.S., Great Britain, Canada, France, and The Soviet Union). The last group of
Germans surrendered on May 8th
, 1945. This was called VE-Day. That means VictoryVE-Day. That means Victory
in Europe Dayin Europe Day.
Before this happened, the two largest Fascist Dictator in Europe were dead:
On 27 April 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was captured by a group of Italians
who did not support him. He was trying to get to Switzerland and safety. On 28 April,
1945 they executed him.

46. On 30 April, as the Germans fought the Soviet
soldiers in Berlin Hitler saw that all was lost.
He did not want to die like Mussolini so he
committed suicide in his underground
safety bunker along with Eva Braun, whom he
had married just hours before their joint
suicide.

47. Dropping Of Atomic Bomb:
August 6th
and 9th
, 1945
Hiroshima and then Nagasaki

49. Japan Surrenders
Japan surrendered on August 15th
, 1945 when Emperor Hirohito made a radio
broadcast. It was called VJ Day, which meant Victory over Japan.
The war was over.
Hideki Tojo, the former military leader of Japan, tried to kill himself, but was
captured, tried as a war criminal, and then executed on December 23rd
, 1948.

50. The Holocaust

51. Why? Did Holocaust Happen: ( Anti-Semitism and Aryan
Supremacy)
Why did the Nazis make
Anti-Semitism
(which means hatred of Jews)
such an important of what
they believed and practiced???
WHY did they think like this
AND then ACT on it????

52. Racial ideas of superiority were another
reason The Holocaust happened.
Aryan Supremacy (being
way better).
The Germans considered themselves
of the Aryan race. An Aryan was the
name given to white skinned people,
particularly those who come from
Northern Europe.

53. Anti-Jewish Boycott – April 1st
, 1933
On April 1, 1933, the Nazis carried out the first nationwide (all over the German nation) ,
planned action against Jews: a boycott targeting Jewish businesses and professionals. A
boycott is when you say you will not go to a certain business.
The Nazis said the boycott
was revenge against Jews
because Jews in Germany,
as well as Jews in other
countries, were spreading
stories around the World
to damage Nazi Germany's
reputation. They said the
stories about bad things
happening in Germany
against Jews were
not true (The Germans
really WERE doing bad
things to Jews.) Stormtroopers outside a Berlin store posting
signs with the words "Germans! Defend
yourselves! Do not buy from Jews"

54. In September 1935, the Nazi leaders
announced new laws which turned
many of their ideas about race into
law. These "Nuremberg Laws" took
citizenship away from German Jews.
Jews were now also not allowed to
marry or have close relations with
persons of "German or German-
related blood." Jews
were disenfranchised (lost the right
to vote) and could not hold public
office.
The first amendment to the
Nuremberg Laws defined anyone
who had three or four Jewish
grandparents as a Jew. It was not due
to a religion you practiced, but due to
who were your parents and grad-
parents.
Threats:
Nuremberg Laws – September, 1935

55. Segregation Of Jews Into Ghettoes – October,
1939 – Spring, 1944
If this was taken INSIDE a ghetto, how would you describe what it is like???

56. The Camps

57. Liberation
Thee men survived to make it to the end of the war

58. Homefront

59. Topics To Take In:
WW II ended GD
Women in factories
Conserve
Ration
Racial Barriers temporarily broken
Internment Camps in U.S. for Japanese Americans