1. State Standards 8.5, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, and 8.10

2. World War II
 1939-1945
 Axis Powers
 Germany, Italy, and Japan
 Allied Powers
 France, Britain, US, Soviet
Union

3. Response to Hitler
 Treaty of Versailles
 Germany cannot build
an offensive army
 Hitler secretly builds
 France and Britain do
nothing!
 Appeasement
 Give Germany whatever
they wanted to avoid
war

4. Hitler on the Move
 Hitler invades all
countries around
Germany
 Nonaggression Pact
 Hitler makes a secret
deal with Russia to split
Poland
 France and Britain
promise to protect
Poland

5. Blitzkrieg (Lightning Warfare)
 Gain victory as quickly as possible with the least amount of
German casualties
1. German Air Force
 Bomb everything they can find
2. Panzer Forces
 German tanks would crash through defensive lines at top speed
3. Motorized Infantry
 Infantry in trucks would come in right behind the Panzers to allow
the tanks to continue their advance
4. Regular Infantry
 Advance on foot to allow Motorized infantry to continue on

7. Invasion of Poland
 Case White
 Germany’s Panzers vs.
Polish Calvary
 Polish Calvary forces charge
German tanks with their
swords
 Russians also invade from
the east
 Germany defeats Poland
in 26 Days!
 Russia Realizes Germany’s
Power, nobody else does

8. Target…France
 Blitzkrieg
 Unleashed against
Belgium and the
Netherlands
 Takes 10 days to capture
these two countries
 France and Britain try to
reinforce the countries but
fail
 Become surrounded

9. Conquest of France
 Blitzkrieg
 Unexpected Success
 France falls in 35 days
Second most powerful
military in the world
 Reason for quick success
 France lacks necessary
armed forces and
misused the ones that
they had

11. The “Jewish Question”
 Hitler’s Plan
 Hitler planned to
remove all Jews from
Germany
 Hitler first created many
restrictions on Jews
 This was done to
encourage their relocation
on their own

12. Kristallnacht
 Jew assassinates German
official in Paris
 Kristallnacht results
 “Night of Broken Glass”
 Jewish businesses
destroyed
 Results in mass Jewish
emigration from Germany

13. Carrying out the Final Solution
 The Final Solution
 Hitler chooses
extermination as the
final solution
 Establishment of death
camps that use gas to kill
 Auschwitz
 Largest death camp that
was built in Poland
 Camps use hydrogen
cyanide to kill prisoners

15. Carrying out the Final Solution.
 At first only Jews unfit
for work were killed
 Towards the end of the
war all Jews are being
killed
 In all possibly as many as
5.8 million Jews were
killed during the
Holocaust

16. Hitler Fails…Twice
 Battle of Britain
 Bombing campaign
against Britain
 Fails to defeat Britain
 Invasion of Russia
 Scorched Earth Policy
 Battle of Stalingrad
 200 day battle
 Bloodiest battle of WWII
 Germany begins to retreat

17. The Pacific
 Island Hopping
 America planned to take
over certain islands
leading to Japan
 Some islands were
bypassed
 Battle of Midway
 US Navy halts the
advance of the Japanese

18. The Pacific.
 Guadalcanal
 Marines take the island
but struggle to hold it
 Medal of Honor Winner
 John Bassilone
 Machine gunner who
suffers third degree burns
from moving his machine
gun

20. The Pacific..
 Iwo Jima
 February 19th 1945
 One of the final battles in
the Pacific
 Marines pay a high price in
lives to take island
 First Flag Raising
 Small group of Marines
given a flag to raise at the
top of Mount Suribachi

22. The Pacific…
 Iwo Jima
 Second Flag Raising
 Another group of Marines
given a flag to place on top
of Suribachi to replace the
first flag
 Joe Rosenthal, combat
photographer, follows the
group

23. Harlon Block, Rene Gagnon, Michael Strank, Franklin Sousley, Ira
Hayes, and John Bradley

24. Pacific….
 1 out of every 3 Marines
were either killed or
wounded
 Almost all of the 20,000
Japanese defenders died
 27 Medals of Honor
awarded
 “Uncommon valor was a
common virtue”

25. The Homefront
 Post Depression Resolve
 US must muster all the
determination it can to
win World War II
 Men dropped out of
high school to fight,
women worked in
factories to produce
weapons

26. The Homefront.
 Women in the Military
 350,000 women serve in
the military
 Women’s Army Corps
(WAC)
 Women Accepted for
Volunteer Emergency
Service (WAVES)

27. The Homefront..
 $320 Trillion
 Amount spent to
finance the war
 All industry produces
war equipment
 Government spending
lifts the country out of
the depression

28. The Homefront…
 Government Agencies
 War Production Board
 Supervised conversion of
industry to war production
 Office of Price
Administration
 Supervised consumer
prices and managed
rationing
 Office of War
Mobilization
 Supervised the efforts of
all these agencies

29. The Homefront….
 Rationing
 Ration Books
 Government begins to
ration certain items by
giving out redeemable
coupons
 These coupons could be
redeemed for items such
as sugar, meat, and
gasoline

30. The Homefront……
 War Bonds
 Bought by Americans to
help pay for the War
 Government promises
to pay back money later
with interest

31. The Homefront…….
 Discrimination
 Executive Order 8802
 Banned discrimination in
the defense industry
 Did not desegregate the
armed forces
 Executive Order 9981
 Desegregated the military
(1948)

32. D-Day in France
 Normandy, France
 Location America selects
 June 6, 1944
 Five Beaches selected for
the attack (US gets 2)
1. Utah Beach
 US
2. Omaha Beach
 US
 Hitler never realized this
was the real invasion

34. Hitler’s End
 Hitler becomes
desperate while
surrounded
 Orders the destruction
of Death Camps
 Unable to destroy most
of the death camps

35. Hitler’s End.
 Bunker Life
 Headquarters moved to an
underground bunker in
Berlin
 Developed a stoop,
suffered from tremors in
his limbs, and dragged his
leg when he walked
 Comes under the
influence of a quack
doctor who gave him large
dosages of drugs
(Cocaine)

36. Hitler’s End..
 Ordered Destruction
 Hitler orders the
destruction of
everything that the
Allies could possibly use
 Hitler still visualized a
miraculous turnabout in
the war

37. Hitler’s End…
 Marriage
 Hitler marries his long
time mistress Eva Braun
 Last Political Testament
 Expelled everyone from
the Nazi Party who had
surrendered

38. Hitler’s End….
 Suicide
 Hitler and Eva retire to
their private quarters
 Hitler tests his poison on
his German Sheppard
(Blondie)
 Eva poisons herself
 Hitler poisons himself and
then shoots himself in the
mouth with his pistol
 Aides burn their bodies
 Huge Conspiracy!

39. Japan Becomes Desperate
 Kamikaze Assault
 Japanese suicide
bomber begin to attack
the American Fleet
 Shows that Japan would
rather die than
surrender
 Sunk 34 American ships
and damaged over 350

41. Atomic Bomb
 Manhattan Project
 Codename for the
American push to build
an atomic bomb
 $2 Billion Project
 One of 37 plants helping
to build the bomb
located in Oak
Ridge, Tennessee
 Enrico
Fermi, responsible for
developing the bomb

42. Atomic Bomb.
 Two Bombs
 “Little Boy” and “Fat
Man”
 Potsdam Declaration
 America calls on Japan
to surrender or face
“complete and utter
destruction”

43. Atomic Bomb..
 Japan refuses to
surrender
 US now has to choose
which two cities to use
the bombs on
 After much debate
America chooses two
major cities
1. Hiroshima
2. Kokura (Switched to
Nagasaki)

44. Atomic Bomb…
 Hiroshima
 Enola Gay takes off from
Tinian
 Is carrying a 9,000 lbs.
nuclear bomb
 “Little Boy”
 60% of Hiroshima
instantly destroyed
 100,000 people die
instantly
 US asks for Japan’s
surrender again

45. Before After

47. Atomic Bomb….
 Japanese refuse to
surrender
 Nagasaki
 Bockscar leaves with “Fat
Man”
 Switches from Kokura to
Nagasaki because of
weather
 Center of city flattened
 35,000 die instantly
 Forced Japan to surrender
 WWII is over

48. Before
After