I D E N T I F Y T H E G OA L S O F E AC H O F T H E
F O L L OW I N G L E A D E R S :
a)
Hitler (Germany)
b)
Mussolini (Italy)
c)
Tojo (Japan)
d)
Roosevelt (U.S.)
e)
Churchill (Great Britain)
f)
Stalin (Russia)
AXIS POWER’S
a)
Hitler (Germany) a)
b)
Mussolini (Italy) -
a)
c)
Dominate Europe and eliminate “inferior” peoples.
Dreamed of an Italian Empire stretching from the eastern Adriatic
to East Africa
Tojo (Japan) –
a)
Sought Japanese control of the Western Pacific and Asia
ALLIED POWER’S
a) The allied powers ( U.S., Great Britain, and Russia) shared unified
goals. Germany was their greatest threat, and Hitler had to be defeated
first. Their ultimate goal was to fight and win a two-front war. They
had a Europe first strategy, and would focus on the war in the Pacific
after the war in Europe was over.
EXPLAIN WHY THE ALLIES
EMPLOYED A “EUROPE
FIRST” STRATEGY.
They wanted to focus on Europe until Hitler was
defeated, because he was considered the most dangerous
enemy. The Pacific war was not seen as a long-term
threat.
EXPLAIN THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
BATTLE OF STALINGRAD.
The battle of Stalingrad was the true turning
point of the war in Europe. It ended any realistic
plans Hitler had of dominating Europe.
EXPLAIN WHY ALLIED
FORCES WERE FIGHTING
IN NORTH AFRICA.
Allied forces were fighting in North Africa in
order to drive out the German’s and pave the
way for an invasion of Italy.
IDENTIFY GENERAL
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
An American general, known as Ike, who
commanded the Allied invasion of North
Africa.
IDENTIFY GENERAL
GEORGE S. PATTON
A tank commander in the American military, who
General Eisenhower put in command of the American
forces in North Africa.
WHAT TWO IMPORTANT
DECISIONS WERE MADE
WHEN PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT AND PRIME
MINISTER CHURCHILL MET
IN JANUARY 1943
First, the Allies decided to increase bombing of
Germany and invade Italy.
Second, FDR announced that the Allies would accept
only unconditional surrender, or giving up completely
without any concessions.
EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN SATURATION
BOMBING AND STRATEGIC
BOMBING.
 Saturation bombing is when troops fly in large numbers
dropping massive amounts of bombs, in order to inflict
maximum damage.
 Strategic bombing is when troops target specific and key
targets to destroy the enemies ability to make war.
WHAT IMPORTANT ROLE
DID THE TUSKEGEE
AIRMEN PLAY DURING THE
BOMBING CAMPAIGN ON
GERMANY DURING 1942?
The Tuskegee Airmen escorted bombers and
protected them from enemy fighter pilots. (In more that
1,500 missions over enemy territory in Europe, the
Tuskegee Airmen did not lose a single bomber)
IDENTIFY ADMIRAL
CHESTER NIMITZ.
Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander of
the United States Navy in the Pacific who
knew of Japanese plans through Navy code
breakers.
EXPLAIN THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
BATTLE OF MIDWAY IN
JUNE 1942.
The Battle of Midway was the turning
point of the war in the Pacific, ending the
seemingly unstoppable Japanese advance.
Japan is now
F I L L I N T H E F O L L OW I N G C H A R T B Y
IDENTIFYING THE EFFECTS OF WWII ON
THE AMERICAN HOME FRONT:
Economy
Effects on Women
Effects on Minorities
Economy
Effects on Women
Effects on Minorities
 War bonds
 Wage controls
 Increased
government
involvement
 New taxes
 Rationing
 New ideas about
women in the
workplace
 New relationships
 Gained skills and
organizational
experience
 New opportunities
 Executive Order
8802
 Fair hiring practices
in jobs funded with
government money
 Japanese Americans
were moved to
internment camps
 Mexican American
farm workers came
to the United States
via the bracero
program.
G I V E A B R I E F E X P L A N AT I O N F O R
E AC H O F T H E F O L L OW I N G T E R M S :
A. Operation Overlord A.
B.
C.
D.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower Normandy D-Day Omaha –
B. Battle of the Bulge –
C. V-E Day –
d) War in the Pacific
a)
b)
c)
d)
Island hopping –
Kamikaze pilotsIwo Jima- Okinawa –
Bombing of Tokyo (March 1945) –
e) Manhattan Project –
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
J. Robert Oppenheimer –
Los Alamos, NMJuly 16, 1945 President Harry S. Truman –
Hiroshima bombed –
Nagasaki bombed –
V-J Day -
 Operation Overlord – The massive Allied invasion of France
• General Dwight D. Eisenhower- American general and the
Supreme Commander of Allied Forces
• Normandy- A 50-mile stretch of five separate beaches
where the Allies planned to invade France.
• D-Day- June 6, 1944 When the Allies hit Germany in force
at Normandy in the north of France. Many Americans died
as soon as they stepped off the boats onto the beaches.
• Omaha- the one beach that was heavily defended by
German troops in Normandy, where many American troops
were killed.
Battle of the Bulge- A desperate attempt to drive
a wedge between American and British forces.
(Instead it crippled Germany)
V-E Day- Victory in Europe Day, May 7,
1945, Germany surrendered in a French
schoolhouse.
 War in the Pacific
• Island hopping- WWII strategy that involved seizing selected
Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others.
• Kamikaze pilots- Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes
into American ships during WWII.
• Iwo Jima – an island east of Japan in which United States Marines
fought the Japanese in a 36 day long battle. 23,000 marines became
causalities.
• Okinawa- an island off of Japan with a vital air base was the most
complex and costly operation in the Pacific campaign. 50,000
American men were killed.
• Bombing of Tokyo (March 1945) – A single night in which B-29
bombers destroyed 16 square miles of Tokyo, killing over 83,000
Japanese.
 Manhattan Project – code name of the project that developed the
atomic bomb.
• J. Robert Oppenheimer- a physicist and one of the primary leaders of the
Manhattan Project. Ran the scientific aspect of the project
• Los Alamos, NM- The construction sight of the atomic bomb
• July 16, 1945- The date on which the first atomic bomb was tested outside of
Alamogordo, New Mexico.
• President Harry S. Truman- President of the United States and the end of
WWII, who made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan.
• Hiroshima bombed – August 6, 1945, 9:14 a.m. the first atomic bomb was
dropped on Japan killing 60,000 of Hiroshima’s residents in two minutes
• Nagasaki bombed – August 9, 1945, the second atomic bomb was dropped
on Nagasaki, Japan killing 35,000 residents
• V-J Day – Victory in Japan Day, August 15, 1945, (Japan fully surrendered on
September 2 ending the most costly war in history)
EXPLAIN THE CONDITIONS
IN NAZI CONCENTRATION
CAMPS.
 The concentration camps was where people Nazi Germany had
deemed undesirable, were tortured, killed, where starvation and
disease were rampant, and in some the prisoner's were subjects of
medical experimentation.
EXPLAIN THE REALITY OF
NAZI DEATH CAMPS
The Nazi Death camps were camps where
prisoners were systematically exterminated.
PRIOR TO WWII, THE UNITED
S TAT E S A N D O T H E R
COUNTRIES BLOCKED JEWISH
I M M I G R AT I O N. G I V E S O M E
POSSIBLE REASONS WHY
THESE COUNTRIES DENIED
J E W S E N T RY.
Some reasons given are : anti- Semitism, apathy,
preoccupation with the Great Depression, and a
tendency to underestimate Hitler’s genocidal plans.
WHAT WAS CREATED IN
1948 IN RESPONSE TO THE
HOLOCAUST?
In 1948, the Jewish community in Palestine
proclaimed the State of Israel, which was
immediately recognized by President Truman
IDENTIFY THE “BIG
THREE” AT THE YALTA
CONFERENCE FOLLOWING
WWII
The “Big Three” at the Yalta Conference
were President Roosevelt, Winston
Churchill, and Joseph Stalin
DESCRIBE THE CHANGES THAT OCCURRED
A F T E R W W I I I N T H E F O L L OW I N G A R E A S :
World Map changesDecline of ImperialismShift in Balance of Power-
 Poland shifted slightly to the west, and Germany was split into two
countries.
 The war marked the end of Western European domination of the
world, many of the colonies of the European countries renewed their
drive for independence.
 As the power shifted, the United States and Soviet Union stepped
into the power vacuum, emerging from the war strong and confident.
D E S C R I B E H OW T H E U N I T E D
N AT I O N S WA S O RG A N I Z E D
( M A K E S U R E YO U I D E N T I F Y
G E N E R A L A S S E M B LY A N D
SECURITY COUNCIL)
 The United Nations was organized on the basis of cooperation
between the Great Powers, not on the absolute equality of all nations.
The UN was made up of delegates from 50 nations, who all sat on
the General Assembly. The five major WWII Allies – The United
States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and China- were assigned
permanent seats on the most powerful arm of the UN, the Security
Council.
DESCRIBE THE
NUREMBERG TRIALS
 The Nuremberg Trials were the trials in which the Nazis were
prosecuted for their war crimes, the prosecutors focused especially on
the Holocaust.
IDENTIFY AND DESCRIBE
AMERICA’S NEW IDENTITY
FOLLOWING WWII
American’s were viewed as the antithesis of the Nazi
ideal. Nazis were totalitarian, racist, and warlike. The
Americans defined themselves as democratic, tolerant,
and peaceful. They argued that the Allies fought the
“people’s war” for tolerance, freedom, democracy, and
peace.
EXPLAIN HOW THE ROLE
OF THE GOVERNMENT
EXPANDED FOLLOWING
WWII
From the collection of raw materials to
attempts to control inflation, the government
had made the important decisions to guide the
economy.