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Picture Review
#1 Describe the Causes of WWII.• (Review your quiz from Chapter 16!!!)
The Rise of Dictators • Causes by Economic Problems• Led to intense military build-ups & nationalism
The Treaty of Versailles• Causes Germany to seek revenge• Hurt world trade
Militaristic Expansion• Invasions
#2 Discuss the major events and strategies in the War in Europe• (Review your quiz from Chapter 17!!!)
Hitler takes the continent.• Blitzkrieg • Fall of France - Britain barely survives.
North Africa – Operation Torch (Eisenhower)
Stalingrad• Turning point on the Eastern Front
D-Day - Turning point in Western Europe Battle of the Bulge
• Germany’s last offensive – Why the bulge?
#3 Discuss the major events and strategies in the War in the Pacific
Japan makes an empire.• Invasion of China• Attacks on U.S.
Doolittle’s Raid – Morale Builder Battle of Midway – Turning Point Island Hopping – War Strategy Battles of Iwo Jima & Okinawa
• Significance – What did it teach the U.S.? Atomic Bombings
• When & Where
#4 Describe the effects of WWII on the homefront.
Production Miracle• Ended what?• War Towns• Industrial Advantage
Internment Camps Race Relations & Migration Women in the Workforce Hollywood’s contribution Mobilization of Scientist
Economic Problems
Germany (Hitler), Italy (Mussolini), & Japan (Tojo)
Isolation, Neutrality, Sympathetic toward France & Britain
The Munich Pact
Soviet Union (Stalin)
The Anschluss (union with Austria)1938
The Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)
France (1940)
Britain
Pearl Harbor & the PhilippinesDec. 7 & 8th, 1941
Brutal march of American and Filipino POW’s across the Philippines.
Sent 110,000 to internment camps
Focus on defeating Germany first
The ability of American workers to make more planes/ships than the enemy could shoot down/sink
and the way America was relieved from the depression.
George Marshall
He encouraged Roosevelt to end discrimination in war time jobs through an execute order and
creation of the Fair Employment Act.
To celebrate the 6 million women who joined the workforce through a “cultural icon.”
Nisei 442nd
The Tuskegee Airmen
Operation Torch in North Africa led by General Dwight Eisenhower
Russia lost over 1 million soldiers but turned the Germans back into a retreat toward Germany.
June 6, 1944
Operation Overlord
Normandy, France
The allies gained the supremacy of the seas in the Atlantic to free up shipping lines.
Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, Omar Bradley
It was Germany’s last offensive
They discriminated against Jewish people similar to Jim Crow laws in the U.S.
Genocide
They were brutal land battles that showed how tough an invasion would be on the Japanese homeland.
General Douglas MacArthur
Navajo Native AmericansSpoken language only used in the U.S.
May 8, 1945
The massive undertaking by scientist to make the Atomic Bomb
The atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Hiroshima – August 6, 1945Nagasaki – August 9, 1945
August 14, 1945
Nazi war criminals were put on trial by an international court.