World War II, 1941-1945
Rise of Strong Men
Adolph Hitler
Humiliated by Treaty of Versailles
Weimar Republic
Economic Instability
Massive Inflation
High Unemployment
Heightened Class & Political Strife
National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi), 1933
1932 Pres. Elections
Benito Mussolini
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nye Committee
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
Annexation of Austria
Meeting in Munich
Appeasement of Hitler
Non-aggression Pact
Poland Invaded
Blitz creed
France Falls
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Underground Resistance
Bombing of London England
Germany’s Military Blunder
United States
Nye Committee
Origins of US-Japanese Tensions
China Invaded, 1931
Roosevelt
Japan
Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941
US
Germany & Italy
Preparations at Home:
Pentagon, 1943
[The European Theater:]
D Day, Normandy, 1944
Omaha Beach
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler’s Military Blunder
Stalingrad
The Race to Berlin
Horrors of German warfare
Nazi Concentration Camps (Death Camps)
Holocaust
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Treatment of Jews
Concentration Camps (Death Camps)
Auschwitz
Medical Experiments
Severe Torture
Execution
Gas Chambers
Black Wall
Nuremburg Trials
International Military Tribunal, 1945
End of Hitler
[The Pacific Theater:]
Midway & Guadalcanal
Gen. Douglas McArthur
Gen. Chester Nimitz
Iwojima
Okinawa
Japanese Resistance
Albert Einstein
Manhattan Project
Los Álamos, New México, 1945
Jornada del Muerte
Dropping the bomb
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Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Deaths
Radio Active Soil
US justifications for dropping the bomb
[Impact of War on American Society:]
Economy Grew
Army Units
Mexican Americans:
Las Águilas Aztecas Squadron 201
Congressional Medals of Honor
Cleto Rodriguez
Alejandro Ruiz
José Martínez
Mexican American Youth
Zoot Suit Riots
PFC. Felix Longoria
Hector P. Garcia
American G.I. Forum
Bracero Program, 1945
Japanese Americans:
442nd Regimental Combat Team
Little Men of Iron
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George Akyama
Kenny Namba
Japanese Internment, 1942
War Relocation Camps
Executive Order 9066
Women
Rosie the Riveter
Blacks
Tuskegee Airmen
Gruesome Twosome
Wendell Pruitt
Lee Archer
761st Tank Battalion
Black Troops
92nd Infantry
93rd Division
Tuskegee Syphilis Trials, 1932-1972
Macon Co. Alabama
Herman Shaw
Nurse Rivers
[The End of War:]
Yalta Meeting
The Cold War
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