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World War II Begins
Ch 24.1, p.480
Terms
• ______________• Appeasement• ______________• Dominate• Violation
German Path to War
• Hitler tells ppl that Germans need land and can find it to the east – in the USSR.– So that __________________________________
________________________________________.
• Hitler then disregards Treaty of Versailles– Builds Air Force and drafts new army of 500,000
Response
• France, GB and Italy all get upset– Hitler ignores them and marches his troops into
the Rhineland.– Odd…this is a demilitarized zone.
• _____________________________________________________– We call this process “appeasement”
New Alliances
• _______________ become good friends– M wants a new Roman Empire– H wants a supreme Aryan racial state
• ________________ also sign an anti-communist agreement– Essentially saying they are against the USSR
Anschluss! (union)
• In 1938, _______________________ by putting Nazis in charge and having them invite him into Austria.– So much for appeasement.
Appeasement?
• Hitler kindly asks the allies at the __________ _______________ if he can have a part of Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland) b/c Germans live there.– Allies believe this will be his last grab
• Then H attacks the rest of Czechoslovakia.– The time for appeasement is over.– ________________________
Nonagression?!
• _____________________________ ______________________ so he can attack Poland
• Which H promptly does– France and Britain declare war 2 days later.
Japan
• We should have discussed this earlier.• In 1931 ______________ dressed up as
Chinese soldiers and ___________ a railway as a pretense to attacking Manchuria– So they could blame Chinese ppl for the attack– League of Nations investigates– Japan withdraws from LoN
Chiang Kai-shek
• Ignoring Japan’s Emperor, the military leader _________________ kept invading China
• Eventually leading to the ______________ – where more than 100,000 civilians were killed for no apparent reason
New Asian Order??
• Originally, Japan wanted to dominate Asia and attack the USSR with Germany
• But when Hitler makes the _____________ _________ – Japan heads South and attacks China more.
Enter US
• In 1940, the ___________________________ ___________– Preventing oil and scrap iron from the US – Japan gets pissed
• Pear Harbor draws near
Q&A
• What was Hitler’s motivation for German expansion?– __________________________
• Why did Japan want to seize other countries?– _______________
• What was the name of the allied policy of ignoring problems?– _______________
World War II
Ch 24.2, p.485
Words
• ____________• Isolationism• Neutrality• _________• Involvement
Poland Blitz
• Hitler lays a ___________ or “lightning war” on Poland– Panzer divisions and air support– By Sept. 28, 1939, ___________ is split btwn
Germany and USSR
Early Victories
• Germany waits through winter– Then proceeds to blitz Denmark and Norway– France builds a silly defensive wall _________
__________• Germany walks around the wall and destroys France
France
• A temporary German gov’t. is set up called ________________– United States initially responds by hiding• Isolationism is popular and we really want neutrality as
an American public
– FDR starts ____________ the allies anyway, all under the table…of course
Battle of Britain
• In 1940 ___________________ with his Luftwaffe– He targets civilians instead of military bases…• This doesn’t work. But a lot of needless civilian deaths
occur.
Attack the USSR?
• Hitler assumes that GB has not surrendered b/c they are waiting for the USSR– Hitler _____________, the largest nation and
army in the world.– He sends three large units of soldiers – They are all halted as soon as ________ arrives in
1941• Soviet winters…
Pear Harbor
• Also in December of 1941 the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor– The goal was to destroy the US Pacific Fleet and
scare the US out of preventing a ______________ _______________
– Instead Pearl Harbor unifies the US and we decide to enter WWII• Hitler declares war on US directly after Pearl Harbor
Allied Advance
• _______________: England, US and USSR– set aside politics and only focus on military victory
European Theater
• At first Germany was crushing everyone, but the soviet winter and _________________ _________________________.– In N. Africa: General Rommel was defeated by
England– By 1943, Hitler knew things were looking bad
Asian Theater
• Japan was stopped at the Battle of the Coral Sea on May 8, 1942.– Then the US won the Battle of Midway in June– ________________________________
__________________________through the pacific, closer and closer to Japan
Questions
• What brought the US into WW2?– ___________________________________
• What is the German term for a lightning war?– _________________
• Who was the German panzer commander nicknamed the Desert Fox?– __________________
The Home Front and Civilians
Ch 24.3, p. 490
Verbiage
• Mobilization• __________• Blitz• Widespread• Circumstance
Total War Extreme
• WW2 was more extreme than WW1 in terms of:– ___________________________________
__________________________________
USSR
• _____________________________ in battle– Snipers and aircrews
• Out-produced all other nations w/ respect to tanks and artillery
• Extreme ________ problems:– In the 900-day siege of Leningrad citizens were
forced to eat dogs, cats and mice (1.5 M died)
USA
• Super fast mobilization for two front war– Pacific/Europe
• Auto industry goes military• African Americans attacked b/c of racial
tensions– _____________________________________
• Japanese Americans forced into isolation camps in the desert
Germany
• Hitler did not push for a “total war” until it was too late (1942).– Before this, Germany relied on ____________
_____________________________________– This strategy doesn’t work against the USSR
Japan
• Instead of using women to mobilize the war effort, Japan brought in laborers from Korea and China
• By the end, ________ resolved to employ kamikaze fighter pilots, meaning “divine wind”
Bombing
• _____________ Germans attack London nightly
• __________ England/allies cause firestorm in German city
• Japan US destroys ¼ of all dwellings– Using B-29 Superfortresses– Two ___________ at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Questions
• How did Germany intend to supply their military?– _____________________________
• How was the US two-front war different than Germany’s?– ________________________
• Were minority cultures treated well in the US during WW2?– _________________________________________