•The European Theatre

•The Pacific Theatre

•Leader: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Position: President •Age: 57

•Political Affiliation:

Democracy/Republic •View on War: Neutral but against Nazi Aggression •Side: Allies (Not until 1941) •Random Fact: Suffered from

Polio

•Leader: Winston

Churchill •Position: Prime Minister •Age: 65 •Political Affiliation: Democracy/Parliament •Side: Allies (1939) •Random Fact: Constantly wore a bowler hat and typically had a cigar

•Leader: Joseph Stalin •Position: Premier of Soviet

Union •Age: 60 •Political Affiliation: Communist •Side: Allies (1941) •Random Fact: Responsible for around 20 million peoples death

•Leader: Adolf Hitler •Position: Führer of

Germany •Age: 50 •Political Affiliation: Nazi •Side: Axis (1939) •Random Fact: Austrian not German, Anti-Semitic

•Leader: Emperor Hirohito •Position: Emperor of Japan •Age: 39 •Political Affiliation:

Constitutional Monarchy •Side: Axis (1939) •Random Fact: Reigned for 62 years (the longest living monarch in history)

•Leader: Benito Mussolini •Position: Prime

Minister/ Dictator •Age: 56 •Political Affiliation: Fascism •Side: Axis (1939) •Random Fact: Sought to recreate the Roman Empire of old

•New Countries • Eupen and Malmedy (given to Belgium) • Northern Schleswig (given to Denmark) • Hultschin (given to Czechoslovakia) • West Prussia, Posen and Upper Silesia (given to

Poland)

•Germany was forced to take all blame and

lost all of its military

The Great Depression didn’t just hit America

German Children Play With Stacks Of Worthless German Money

Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Hirohito begin to expand their empires

1931 – Japan attacks Manchuria in northern China Japan wanted more natural resources for its growing population (Manchuria is rich in natural resources)

1935 – Italy invaded Ethiopia in Africa Mussolini wanted new areas to expand his empire in Africa

1936 – Hitler moves troops into the Rhineland (German region near the French border)

•If you give a mouse a cookie….. it’ll

want a glass a milk •If you give Hitler the Rhineland… He’ll want the whole world

Britain : 750,000 soldiers killed; 1,500,000 wounded France : 1,400,000 soldiers killed; 2,500,000 wounded Belgium : 50,000 soldiers killed Italy : 600,000 soldiers killed Russia : 1,700,000 soldiers killed America : 116,000 soldiers killed Germany : 2,000,000 soldiers killed Austria-Hungary : 1,200,000 soldiers killed Turkey : 325,000 soldiers killed Bulgaria : 100,000 soldiers killed

Austria Hitler wants it

France/ England don’t want war

Anschluss (Union) Hitler gets Austria

Allies think it’s over

Sudetenland Hitler wants it

France/England don’t want war

Munich Conference Hitler gets Sudentland

Allies think it’s over

Czechoslovakia Hitler takes it

France/England threaten to take action

Czechoslovakia Hitler grows Germany

Allies do nothing

Poland Hitler knows this will start a War

France/England have a treaty with Poland

Anglo- Polish Military Alliance Hitler continues persecution of Jews

Declare War on September 3/1939

1. Pact of Steel (1939) 1. Between Italy and Germany

2. Tripartite Pact (1940) 1. Between Italy, Germany and Japan

3. Hitler-Stalin Pact, Molotov-Ribbentrop

Pact, (August 23, 1939), 1. Between USSR and Germany 2. Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland,

and Romania

•After WWI US is considered

Isolationist by many, because of the desire to stay out of international politics •The Neutrality Act of 1935- members of

congress, wanted to keep America out of war •Neutrality Act 1936- forbade loans to belligerent countries •US responds with a renewed Neutrality act 1939- “cash and carry” would aid allies alone

•Anti-Semitism: hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group

“By the skillful

and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.” ― Adolf Hitler

•Made it illegal to marry

Jews and Non Jews

•Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes

•Superior to all races (genetically)

•November 9–10, 1938

•Night Of Broken Glass • 8000 Jewish shops destroyed

• 1668 synagogues sacked 267 set on

fire • 30,000 Jewish men sent to Concentration camps • 91 murdered during riot

•Fled Germany

•937 Passangers on board •Most Jewish

•Denied entry into the

USA •Had to return back to Germany (250 of them will be killed in Holocaust

Concentration Camps: Jews were brought to them as prisoners and would be executed in gas chambers

•It is estimated that 11 million

people were killed during the Holocaust. •Six million of these were Jews. •The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe. •An estimated 1.1 million children were murdered in the Holocaust.

•Mobile Units •2000 Tanks •1000 Aircraft

•New Fighting Tactic

•UK invades Norway just before

Germany •Germans invade and push British forces out of Norway •Germany invades Denmark •German crush Holland •France Falls in 4 weeks (June 1940)

•Battle of Britain • Luftwaffe VS. RAF bases and Radar

•Four Freedoms Speech • Freedom of religion • Freedom of speech

• Freedom from fear • Freedom from want

•Lend-Lease Act • If your neighbors house is on fire you

would lend them your hose

•Japanese attack Pearl

Harbor and other targets •Dec. 8th Roosevelt asks for Declaration of War against Japan only •Dec. 11th Hitler declares war on U.S.

•Rosie the Riveter: •Women go to

work in munitions factories, other jobs, and the military

•Allies agreed that Europe was first priority •North Africa-November 1942 •1942 Bombing campaign against Germany begun •September 1943 Italy Surrenders (German Army

occupies and holds Northern Italy) •June 6, 1944 D-Day- Allied Invasion of Normandy France, the Second Front is opened. •December 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge (German counter attack in the Ardennes Forrest, 200K Germans attack Allies) •May 7, 1945 Germany Surrenders (Hitler is dead, Russians conquer Berlin)

•Strategy of Island Hopping: bypass some

islands controlled by Japanese and attack specific islands, to obtain air bases in an effort to bomb Japan more efficiently and to build up forces in an effort to invade Japan. •1942 Major victory at Midway Island US takes out Japanese aircraft carriers

•FDR Dies April 12,

1945 •Harry Truman takes over

•FDR authorized a secret program code

named “Manhattan Project” •1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, led the team of physicists to develop and atomic weapon, to split the atom •Los Alamos, New Mexico •July 1945, the bomb was ready (Truman had no idea any bomb like this was being worked on, when he took office)

•Nagasaki, Hiroshima •Little boy, Fat man •Hiroshima (150,000) and

Nagasaki (75,000)