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WHY DIE FOR DANZIG?
• The Nazi-Soviet Pact
• Germany Invades Poland
• The Response of Great Britain and France
• Warsaw
• Blitzkrieg
• Problems for Poland
THE SOVIET RESPONSE
• The Baltic States
• Finland• October 1939
• Problems faced by the Soviets
• The Response of Great Britain and America
THE U.S. RESPONSE
• FDR
• The Neutrality Acts
• Cash and Carry
• William Borah
• The Phony War
ENDING THE PHONY WAR
• Securing the Northern Flank
• Denmark and Norway
• April 10, 1940
• The British Response
• German losses
• Winston Churchill
MARCHING TOWARDS FRANCE
• May 1940
• The Maginot Line
• Luxembourg
• Ardennes Forrest
• Erich von Manstein
THE INVASION OF FRANCE
• Dunkirk
• May 27-June 4th
• Reasons for Stopping
• Mussolini’s role
• June 22, 1940
THE IMPACT OF THE FALL OF FRANCE
• French Commander in Chief, General Maurice Gamelin
• Worldwide implications
• The Vichy Regime
FOCUSING ON THE BRITISH
• The Battle of Britain
• Göring and the Luftwaffe
• Flaws in the plan
• Gains and losses
• Reasons for Victory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0-fVLCnsBs
GETTING INVOLVED
• German U-Boats
• Destroyers for Bases
• The Selective Service Act
• The Election of 1940
MOVING FURTHER
• Pleas from the British
• Arsenal of Democracy
• The Lend Lease Act (HR 1776)
• March 1941
THE SECOND FRONT
• The Nazi-Soviet Pact
• Operation Barbarossa
• Mussolini invades Greece
• Hitler invades Greece
THE SECOND FRONT
• Delaying the Plan
• Intelligence gathering
• Stalin’s response
• June 22, 1941
• The Blitzkrieg
THE SECOND FRONT
• Problems for the Germans
• Problems for the Soviets
• Holy Mother Russia
• The effects of Winter
MOVING CLOSER TO WAR
• The Atlantic Charter
• FDR meets with Churchill
• August 1941
• Shared Goals
• Fighting the U-Boats
PEARL HARBOR
• Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
• Operation Hawaii
• Admiral Husband Kimmel
• “THIS IS NOT DRILL”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufoUtoQLGQY&feature=related
NORTH AFRICA
• Mussolini
• Egypt
• Exaggerations
• The Suez Canal
• Churchill’s response
NORTH AFRICA
• Marshall Rudolfo Graziani
• Numbers
• Timeline
• Commander Sir Archibald Wavell
• General Erwin Rommel
• The Afrika Corps
NORTH AFRICA
• The role of the Navy
• Desert Conditions
• The Ultra Secret
• General Claude Auchinleck
• Rommel becomes a legend
• “Monty”
NORTH AFRICA
• Operation Torch
• November 1942
• Pleas from Stalin
• FDR’s choice?
• Churchill’s choice?
NORTH AFRICA• George Marshall
• Roosevelt meets with Molotov
• November 8, 1942
• Reasons for the invasion
• Henri Petain
• Charles de Gaulle
NORTH AFRICA• French Resistance
• Jean Darlan
• Dwight Eisenhower
• November 10, 1942
• The Darlan Deal
• Suspicions
• Results of the North Africa Campaign
BACK TO THE SOVIET UNION
• Stalingrad
• Summer 1942
• Caucasia
• Hitler’s obsession
THE EASTERN FRONT
• August 1942
• Soviet General Georgi Zhukov
• Romanian Efforts
• The Russian Winter
• January 1943
• Results
BIG DECISIONS• Casablanca
• January 13-24, 1943
• The next move?
• De Gaulle and Geraud
• FDR’s “unconditional surrender” speech
• Results
THE EASTERN FRONT
• July 1943
• Kursk
• CITADEL
• Diverting effort to Italy
• Results
ATTACKING THE UNDERBELLY
• Operation Husky
• Coalition Forces
• Attempts to throw off the Germans
• Montgomery VS Patton
• No more Mussolini
• Field Marshall Pietro Badoglio
ATTACKING THE UNDERBELLY
• Eisenhower makes negotiations
• Italy surrenders
• Germany invades Italy
• The Gustav Line
• October 1943
WARTIME DIPLOMACY
• The Teheran Conference
• Making plans
• OVERLORD
• Eisenhower’s new role
FOCUSING ON ITALY
• Anzio
• Operation Shingle
• General John Lucas
• January 1944
• Lack of supplies
MARCHING TO ROME
• Monte Cassino
• January 1944
• Sending more troops
• Strategy
• May 1944
• General Mark Clark
OVERLORD
• Normandy
• Scheduling
• FORTITUDE
• Numbers
• Paratroopers
• Cherbourg
Refer to map on page 224 (Maddox)
SECRET WEAPONS
• V-1s
• V-2s
• ME 262
SECRET PLOTS
• July 1944• Colonel Klaus von
Stauffenberg• Saving Germany• Attempts to overthrow the
Reich• Hitler’s reaction• The long term effects
MARCHING TOWARDS GERMANY
• Leadership
• Eisenhower
• Montgomery
• Patton
HOLLAND
• Operation Market-Garden
• September 1944
• Purpose of the operation?
• Results?
THE BULGE
• The plan
• September 1944
• Goals
• December 1944
• The initial attack
• Spies
THE BULGE
• Heroism
• Christmas
• Setbacks
• Results
THE WAR IN THE EAST
• The New Front
• Hitler’s new plan
• Poland
• Gaining ground
• February 2, 1945
MORE DIPLOMACY
• Yalta
• The big three
• Gaining the upper hand
• Goals
YALTA
• The United Nations
• Reparations
• Help against Japan
• Poland
• The Lublin Poles
• The London Poles
• Polish borders
MOVING IN
• Eisenhower’s intentions
• The Elbe River
• Stalin’s goals
• Hitler’s condition
• Eva Braun
• Admiral Karl Doenitz
• Field Marshal Alfred Jodl
POTSDAM
• Truman
• Stalin
• Churchill
• Attlee
• Conditions
THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC
• December 8, 1941
• The Next Target
• MacArthur
• Problems for the Americans
• The role of the Press
• Bataan
www.google.com/maps
BOOSTING MORALE
• Tokyo
• The Hornet
• April 18, 1942
• Lt. Colonel James Doolittle
• Results of the Raid
CORAL SEA
• Defending Australia• Admiral Chester Nimitz• Port Moresby• Yorktown
• Lexington
• May 7, 1942• Results
www.google.com/maps
THE TURNING POINT
• June 4-7, 1942
• Midway
• The Aleutians
• Codes
• Yamamoto
• Results
OFFENSE
• The Solomon Islands
• Guadalcanal
• August 7, 1942
• Fighting in the Jungles
• Japan attempts to retake the island
• Importance of the victory
STATE OF THE WAR: 1943
• Divided Leadership
• New technology
THE NEXT OBJECTIVE
• Rabaul
• February 1943
• Operation Cartwheel
• The Battle of Bismarck Sea
www.google.com/maps
CARTWHEEL
• Yamamoto
• June 1943
• Good Communication
• Airstrips
CARTWHEEL
• Bougainville
• Rabaul
• February 1944
BACK TO THE PHILIPPINES
• July 1944
• Choices
• Leyte
• October 1944
• Kamikazes
RECAPTURING THE PHILIPPINES
• January 1945
• Luzon
• Objectives
• Manila
• March 3, 1945
www.google.com/maps
IWO JIMA
• Why Iwo Jima?
• Defensive strategies
• February 1945
• Results
OKINAWA
• Location
• April 1945
• The role of Kamikazes
• Civilian casualties
• Results
• June 1945
DECISIONS
• The Potsdam Declaration
• Hiroshima (8/6)
• Nagasaki (8/9)
• V-J Day
THE HOME FRONT
• Remember Pearl Harbor
• FDR’s Four Freedoms
• The Atlantic Charter
• The “DR.”
• Getting the job done
THE HOME FRONT
• Office of War Information
• Problems with the OWI
• Propaganda
• “Give till it hurts”
• Victory Gardens
THE HOME FRONT
• Advertising
• Comic Strips
• Entertainment
• Music and movies
• The impact of propaganda
THE HOME FRONT
• The Selective Service Act
• The Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WACs)
• Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES)
• Women’s Auxiliary Service Pilots (WASPs)
• Female Marines
THE HOME FRONT
• Freedom From Discrimination
• African-Americans
• Native Americans
• Japanese-Americans
THE HOME FRONT
• Mobilizing the Economy
• War Production
• Labor Unions
• Farmers
THE HOME FRONT
• The War Production Board
• The War Manpower Commission
• The Office of War Mobilization
• The Office of Price Administration
THE HOME FRONT
• Social Change
• African-Americans on the Home Front
• A. Philip Randolph
• Executive Order 8802
THE HOME FRONT
• Women in the work force
• Rosie the Riveter
• The effects of working on women
THE HOME FRONT• The Servicemen’s
Readjustment Act (June 1944)
• The “GI” Bill
• Loan Guarantees for small businesses, farms, and homes
• Tuition payments and living expenses
THE HOME FRONT• Japanese-Americans
• Nisei
• Issei
• Rumors
• “A Jap is a Jap”
• Executive Order 9066
THE HOME FRONT
• Science and technology
• National Defense Research Committee
• The Office of Scientific Research and Development
THE HOME FRONT
• Leo Szilard
• Albert Einstein
• The Manhattan Project
• J. Robert Oppenheimer